Just my opinion, but in my opinion, if you have sms working, why not get it upstream so others can join the fun?
Also, some of the cell phone modules I worked with back in the day and an audio capability on their own. Does the one in the pine phone do that? On Sat, Mar 29, 2025 at 11:46 AM Dave MacFarlane via 9fans <9fans@9fans.net> wrote: > Quoth ron minnich <rminn...@gmail.com>: > > Dave, this is interesting, one thing I'm not sure about: can you make > calls > > with it? You may have said so, and I missed it. > > Not yet, but the goal is to get there. There's 2 things missing: > 1. There's no audio driver in the kernel yet, which is important to make > phone calls (unless you just wanted SMS, but see point 2.) > 2. The modem is connected internally via usb. There's an ehci driver in > the kernel which enumerates the endpoints in /dev/usb/ep*, but nusb doesn't > have support for the card. One of the endpoints is the serial line for the > AT command interface you need to interact with the modem. There's an > alternative interface for interacting with the modem over one of the uart > ports, but it doesn't seem like it's worth the effort of getting that up > and running since another one of the endpoints is the usb audio interface > for the other side of the call. I haven't touched this yet (other than the > ehci part and verifying the existing drivers won't work) since it's not > self-contained in the kernel. > > Once those are done, you could technically make phone calls in theory. > > * I still need to put them in an fs and put them online somewhere. > > - Dave ------------------------------------------ 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/T4d13b3016d2a2310-M9789800ee68c00ea463b049a Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription
