Alessandro Speranza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
I guess the easiest thing would be buy a gprs mobile phone with
usb cable and use that as a modem, but I've got the same
problem: do you know if that works with Linux?
this worked fine for me last month in bonasola (near la spezia),
using a sony vaio pcg-r505tl running linux 2.4.21-pre7, through a
siemens gs55 and wind (15euro/month unlimited access package). i
append the simple script /root/bin/GPRS below to show which kernel
modules were needed; munge to taste.
the data rate was slow but usable. the cost of the cable was
outrageous (50 euro!), but i suppose worth it in the end. much
more economical than the pcmcia cards that do the same thing for
data but have no support for voice.
ciao,
thi
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#!/bin/sh
case "$1" in
start)
set -x
modprobe pl2303
modprobe usb-uhci
/root/bin/firewall-setup
pon gprs-wind
tail -f /var/log/syslog
# additional logging is now done via /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/favinet-log
exit 0
;;
stop)
set -x
poff gprs-wind
# do not kill the firewall at this time
#/root/bin/firewall-kill
exit 0
;;
*)
echo Usage: GPRS '[start | stop]'
exit 1
;;
esac
# GPRS ends here
