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IMPORTANT: THIS FILE MAY BE ALWAYS BE OUT OF DATE

The following devices (PCCards (PCMCIA), ExpressCards, mobile phones connected over USB or Bluetooth) are known to work with UMTSmon on Linux. Other devices may or may not work, your mileage may vary. Please help us out to get as broad coverage as possible!

Manufacturer	type	chipset	autodetect	PPP support	remarks
Option	Original Vodafone 3G	OPTI usb2serial, Qualcomm modem	0.5	0.5	Information on Linux support available on PHARscape. Can be made to work using either the specialised Option usbserial driver or the regular Linux kernel usbserial module.
Option	All GT cards	NEC usb2serial, Qualcomm modem	0.1	0.4	USB interface with 3 or 4 usb ports - each connected to a usb2serial. Setup instructions available on PHARscape. Can be made to work using either the specialised Option usbserial driver or the regular Linux kernel usbserial module.
Option	GE 0201 and GE 0301 (ExpressCard) [img]	NEC usb2serial, Qualcomm HSDPA modem	0.5	0.5 for usbserial	Different from the GT cards in that the ExpressCard slot provides USB directly. Depending on the firmware, this card is either a USB serial based card (use the `option` kernel driver) or an HSO device - see below. Setup instructions available on PHARscape.
Option	GT GPRS EDGE	BroadCom 4306	0.3	0.7	This card is believed not to need any configuration work, apart from some radio tricks (implemented) and PPP (not implemented yet).
Option	Fusion+	Nozomi	0.2	0.4	Setup instructions available on PHARscape. Requires a special Linux kernel module that is called 'nozomi'. It is not part of the standard kernel, but should be available in e.g. OpenSuse 10.2.
Option	HSO devices	"HSO"	0.9	0.10	HSO is a specialized interface designed by Option for their HSPA modems. The PHARscape forum contains the drivers - it appears to also be added to the 2.6.27 kernel. Starting with 0.10, umtsmon support for these devices is usable.
Sony Ericsson	GC 79 / GC 86	BroadCom 4306	0.2	0.7	This card will be completely operational starting the 0.7 release.
Sierra Wireless	Aircard 775 [img] AirCard 850	serial_cs	0.3, 0.7	0.7?	Several people have noted problems with these cards, though these are solvable. install info.
Sierra Wireless	Aircard 875 [img]	NEC usb2serial, QualComm chipset	0.8	0.8	PCMCIA card. It appears not to support SMS sending.
Sierra Wireless / HP	other Sierra Wireless and HP devices		0.9	0.9	We should have most GPRS/UMTS-based Sierra Wireless (and the corresponding HP) devices to work.
Novatel Wireless	Merlin U530	serial_cs	0.3, 0.7	0.6	PCMCIA modem, reported working with the 0.6 release.
Novatel Wireless	Merlin UMTS Modem U630	serial_cs	0.4	0.6	operational
Novatel Wireless	Merlin HSDPA/UMTS Modem U740 [img]	?	0.4?	0.6, updates in 0.8	5 (!) radio bands supported.
Novatel Wireless	Merlin XU 870 3G HSDPA 3.6/7.2 Mbps ExpressCard [img]	NEC usb2serial, Qualcomm modem	0.6	0.6	First umtsmon supported ExpressCard! Still work in progress: operator selection doesn't work in 0.7...
Novatel Wireless	x950D		0.8	0.8	reported to work
DELL	any	usbserial	0.9	0.9	All known Dell cards are disguised Novatel devices. They should "just work".
Huawei Technologies	Huawei Mobile E612	NEC usb2serial, unknown modem	0.4	0.4	sold in Germany by E-Plus. This card looks remarkably similar to the Option GT cards, but misses several Option-specifics. Works using the standard Linux usbserial module.
Huawei Technologies	Huawei Mobile E620 [img]	Huawei usb2serial, unknown modem	0.7	0.7	sold in Germany by E-Plus.
Huawei Technologies	Huawei Mobile E169 / E170 / E172 / E220 / E270 / E800	Huawei usb2serial, unknown modem	0.7	0.8/0.9	Really useful operational starting 0.9, but autodetection has some issues, depending on your kernel version. Starting version 2.6.20 (and extended in 2.6.24), the Linux kernel will recognize this as a ZeroCD device and switch it to usbserial operation immediately.
Motorola	MotoMAGX-based cell phones (like the RAZR2 V8)	FreeScale iMX31 with unknown baseband	0.7	0.8	Available all over the world. This Linux-based cell platform does allow USB2Serial connections now. We still have to fixup bluetooth connections to work.
Toshiba	G450	looks like a Qualcomm baseband	0.10	0.10	The Toshiba G450 is a stylish HSDPA modem that also is usable as a phone.
Samsung	Y3100 (build in Samsung NC10)	QualcommMSM6290	0.9	0.9	tested with openSUSE 11.1 and seifes "DNS-hack" to get umtsmon work with NetworkManager.
Ericsson	F3507g	???	0.10	0.10	This modem has two different modes of operation. The CDC_Ether approach does not work in umtsmon, we treat the device as a ACM modem.

The following cards are unknown or known NOT to work with UMTSmon, either because there is no Linux support or because we don't know how to enable it...

Manufacturer	type	chipset	remarks
Novatel	Merlin X950D 3G 7.2 ExpressCard - HSUPA/HSDPA Networks	Qualcomm MSM7200 chipset	Official Linux supported!
4G Systems	any	???	Apart from the XSPlus3 (see below), any other card by 4G systems is untested at this moment.
4G Systems	XS Plug3 [img]	Atmel USB hub, Qualcomm or Siemens modem	The branded T-Mobile web'n'walk box has been tried and is known not to work with umtsmon (yet). Like the Option Icon, it starts as a usb_storage and must be switched to modem mode. It should then appear as `/dev/ttyACM*`.
Motorola	Linux based phones	Intel/Marvell XScale processor, probably Qualcomm or BroadCom radio	All old Moto Linux phones I've tried (the A760, A780, E680, 1200 Ming) can be contacted with a USB cable over `/dev/ttyACM0` but refuse PPP connections. The new MotoMAGX based phones do work, see above. Autodetection from 0.6 on.
Motorola	non-Linux based phones	various processors and basebands, including FreeScale/Qualcomm/Broadcom	The Moto SLVR 7 is autodetected (`/dev/ttyACM0`), SMS'ing works, binding to a network is expected operational in version 0.8.
Kyocera	KPC650 (as sold by Verizon in USA)	NEC usb2serial / Qualcomm CDMA Technologies MSM	Using `insmod usbserial vendor=0x0c88 product=0x17da` does result in 2 serial ports, but none respond to AT commands. autodetection implemented in 0.6
Sony Ericsson	P990i phone with USB cable	NXP 4008 with probably Qualcomm radio	Autodetected but fails. Support for this phone (`/dev/ttyACM0` through `/dev/ttyACM2`)is ongoing for 0.7.
Verizon	Verizon PC5750	Qualcomm W-CDMA	(Image) This PCCard device is very special. It has no SIM Card interface, it comes up with a `/dev/ttyACM0` for USB IDs (0x106c, 0x3702), claiming to be from a vendor called Pantech. It does respond to AT commands, but most of the standard ETSI commands are returning ERROR, including dialling, SIM/PIN handling and device identification. The card is sold by Verizon to work on their National network only, this probably explains the feature reduction. THIS CARD IS TOO SPECIAL, IT CANNOT BE SUPPORTED BY UMTSMON autodetection implemented in 0.8, with message.
any	any CDMA or EV-DO based device	any	As EV-DO devices do not follow the ETSI specifications, they cannot be operated using umtsmon.

If you have an unsupported device or if you are a manufacturer or operator, please contact Klaas (kvangend at users.sf.net) if you want to have support added to umtsmon.

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