Re: USB SIM-card dongle on OpenBSD

2018-02-23 Thread Xianwen Chen
Dear Stuart, Interesting. Thank you for the link! I, however, do not think I have the resource to get it to work on OpenBSD currently. Yours sincerely, Xianwen On Fri, Feb 23, 2018 at 8:49 AM, Stuart Henderson mailto:s...@spacehopper.org>> wrote: On 2018-02-22, Marcus MERIGHI mailto:mcmer-ope

Re: USB SIM-card dongle on OpenBSD

2018-02-23 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2018-02-22, Marcus MERIGHI wrote: > Hello Xianwen, > > xianwen.c...@nina.no (Xianwen Chen), 2018.02.22 (Thu) 01:49 (CET): >> I actually do not know. I just have this idea that I would like to use >> my OpenBSD laptop as a mobile phone as well. I think there are USB >> dongles that act as GSM n

Re: USB SIM-card dongle on OpenBSD

2018-02-22 Thread Xianwen Chen
Dear Marcus, Thank you for your suggestion. I was thinking of using a headset that is connected to the computer to hear and speak. Yours sincerely, Xianwen On Thu, Feb 22, 2018 at 9:31 AM, Marcus MERIGHI mailto:mcmer-open...@tor.at>> wrote: Hello Xianwen, xianwen.c...@nina.no

Re: USB SIM-card dongle on OpenBSD

2018-02-22 Thread Marcus MERIGHI
Hello Xianwen, xianwen.c...@nina.no (Xianwen Chen), 2018.02.22 (Thu) 01:49 (CET): > I actually do not know. I just have this idea that I would like to use > my OpenBSD laptop as a mobile phone as well. I think there are USB > dongles that act as GSM network device. I am wondering if I could use >

Re: USB SIM-card dongle on OpenBSD

2018-02-21 Thread Xianwen Chen
Dear Luis, That will be fantastic! Thank you! Yours sincerely, Xianwen On Thu, Feb 22, 2018 at 2:05 AM, Luis Coronado mailto:lcoron...@ticoit.com>> wrote: I used Huawei and Dlink GSM usb based modems. I don’t recall the models but I will look around for the notes I had about that and send it y

Re: USB SIM-card dongle on OpenBSD

2018-02-21 Thread Luis Coronado
I used Huawei and Dlink GSM usb based modems. I don’t recall the models but I will look around for the notes I had about that and send it your way. -luis On Wed, Feb 21, 2018 at 7:59 PM Xianwen Chen wrote: > Dear Luis, > > Thank you. Do you use a USB dongle to drive the SIM card? If yes, which

Re: USB SIM-card dongle on OpenBSD

2018-02-21 Thread Xianwen Chen
Dear Luis, Thank you. Do you use a USB dongle to drive the SIM card? If yes, which one do you use? Yours sincerely, Xianwen On Thu, Feb 22, 2018 at 1:45 AM, Luis Coronado mailto:lcoron...@ticoit.com>> wrote: I used smstools from ports to deliver sms alerts from nagios. There are other alterna

Re: USB SIM-card dongle on OpenBSD

2018-02-21 Thread Luis Coronado
I used smstools from ports to deliver sms alerts from nagios. There are other alternatives as well. -luis On Wed, Feb 21, 2018 at 6:59 PM Xianwen Chen wrote: > Dear David, > > I actually do not know. I just have this idea that I would like to use my > OpenBSD laptop as a mobile phone as well. I

Re: USB SIM-card dongle on OpenBSD

2018-02-21 Thread Xianwen Chen
Dear David, I actually do not know. I just have this idea that I would like to use my OpenBSD laptop as a mobile phone as well. I think there are USB dongles that act as GSM network device. I am wondering if I could use such a dongle to operate a SIM card on OpenBSD, to receive/send SMS and to

Re: USB SIM-card dongle on OpenBSD

2018-02-21 Thread David Anthony
Xianwen, Which application would use this SIM-card dongle? Just curious. Regards, dma > On Feb 21, 2018, at 6:35 AM, Xianwen Chen wrote: > > Dear OpenBSD users, > > I am thinking of adding a SIM-card dongle to my laptop so that I can receive > and send SMS, and receive and make phone calls.

USB SIM-card dongle on OpenBSD

2018-02-21 Thread Xianwen Chen
Dear OpenBSD users, I am thinking of adding a SIM-card dongle to my laptop so that I can receive and send SMS, and receive and make phone calls. Do you have prior experience with that? Which USD dongle do you use? Yours faithfully, Xianwen