> * It's not possible to retrieve the current connection status (e.g. > whether the phone is registered with a network)
You can peer in the log file in /tmp. The phone I've got won't actually believe any SIM card I've fed to it so I don't know if that bit actually works at all anyway > * There appears to be problems getting the gsm chip to reliably register > with the network (i.e. no response even using libgsm-tool) Ditto > I've also found that gsmd occasionally crashes. I believe this is the > log from the latest crash I had: Yes - it corrupts memory. You can crash it immediately as well by asking for a list of messages on the sim