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New release of hso(4), FreeBSD driver for Option iCON branded 3G/HSDPA devices.

Changes to hso(4)

• Support for the new TTY layer, driver now works with 7.0 upto todays 8.0-CURRENT.
• Device IDs for Option GlobeTrotter HSUPA and Option GMT382 added.
• Minor performance and stability issues have been addressed.

Changes to hsoctl(1)

• hsoctl now forks into background upon a successful connection, the old behvaior can be obtained with -n flag. Disconnection is possible by executing hsoctl -d hso0.  While running in background, important information is logged to syslog.  Complete daemonization is also possible with the -b flag.
• Use of AT+CGREG in addition to AT+CREG to detect network registration (for service plans where voice calls are disabled).
• resolv.conf handling have been improved, only nameserver entries are changed, other content is left intact. A bug that sometimes caused garbled data to be prepended to resolv.conf have also been addressed.  The resolv.conf path can be altered with the -r flag, disable resolv.conf with -r /dev/null.
• hsoctl does now gracefully terminate upon unexpected device removal.
• Default route installation have been improved.

The code can be obtained from the hso page, the update should hit the ports tree soon (comms/hso-kmod).

Speed test from a rural location. Values are in bits/s, so that’s almost 300 kB/s downstream and around 40 kB/s upstream. Hopefully downstream is slightly better from a more urban location.

hso(4) speedtest

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