i’ve had the v640 card for awhile, just needed to wait for my expresscard to pcmcia adapter. surprisingly enough, my dell latitude d620 is listed as supporting the card. ha! atleast i have a small warm-fuzzy about this possibly working in ubuntu and not having to just use it inside a winxp vm.

after plugging the adapter in, and then inserting the v640, the output of `dmesg` verifies that the system does see the v640.

[104552.492000] /build/buildd/linux-source-2.6.22-2.6.22/drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c: USB Serial support registered for GSM modem (1-port)
[104552.492000] option 6-1:1.0: GSM modem (1-port) converter detected
[104552.492000] usb 6-1: GSM modem (1-port) converter now attached to ttyUSB0
[104552.492000] option 6-1:1.1: GSM modem (1-port) converter detected
[104552.492000] usb 6-1: GSM modem (1-port) converter now attached to ttyUSB1
[104552.492000] usbcore: registered new interface driver option
[104552.492000] /build/buildd/linux-source-2.6.22-2.6.22/drivers/usb/serial/option.c: USB Driver for GSM modems: v0.7.1

i am curious why the card attached itself to ttyUSB0 and ttyUSB1 though. `ifconfig` doesn’t show any new devices either. after checking del.icio.us for bookmarks tagged v640, i can either start configuring the v640 manually, or use a gui ppp client to connect with the v640. one thing i should have done was actually read the bookmarks while i was waiting on the card. i have no clue what the 10-digit verizon number is that is associated with my card. boo. guess this is on hold till i figure that out.