Hi, On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 06:59:33AM +1000, Philip Rhoades wrote: > On 2011-05-28 04:25, Paul Fertser wrote: >> Philip Rhoades<p...@pricom.com.au> writes: >>> I am wondering if it would be possible to use minicom on the >>> Freerunner to dial the phone number of the remote dongle, make a >>> connection >> >> If CSD[1] is available from your provider, then you can do that, >> right. If not, all you can do is to write some smart enough script >> that would do something with the connection once it tears off (in >> fact, probably simply adding "persist" option to pppd will suffice). > > OK, I will check with VirginMobile (Australia) but if that doesn't work > I could switch to Telstra. Are there some working scripts around to do > the PPP stuff?
There's plenty of examples for using gprs/3g under GNU/Linux the "manual way". I assume you're already using pppd for establishing the connection from the remote system to some host in the internet that you control. I think simply adding "persist lcp-echo-failure 10 lcp-echo-interval 5" options to its config (/etc/ppp/options or /etc/ppp/peers/<yourpppdscript> or some other way specific to how you start pppd) should be enough. -- Be free, use free (http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html) software! mailto:fercer...@gmail.com _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
