Just to inform you about a very annoying thing I found out about Red Hat 9 (Shrike), and possibly other version.
I was trying to connect my cellular phone to my laptop, running Linux (for internet). Worked fine under Windoze XP, but modem didn't respond to anything under Linux. Tried minicom, played with the parameters, got nothing.
So I connected the laptop via a RS-232 crosscable to my desktop (if you don't have one, make one!). And what I saw on the other side was a normal login prompt to the computer. I logged in normally (via the RS-232, right) and got a shell.
In /etc/inittab I found a line going:
co:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty ttyS0 9600 vt100
And this is what I call annoying! For some reason that is beyond my understanding, someone decided that my only COM port should be tied up to doing logins.
Being beyond that, using my Samsung 830 (a.k.a. SCH-A562) on Pelephone is simply setting up kppp exactly like the Pelephone guys tell to set up the Windows thing (well, you may want to get rid of your default gateway and /etc/resolv.conf DNS setting first). Username is [EMAIL PROTECTED], password "pcl" and phone number is "#777".
The cellular phone responds to AT commands just like any modem.
Just a warning: The price for Pelephone internet is 3.5 agorot/kB (yes, yes) unless you get yourself an internet package, which ends up on something like 0.70 NIS/MB. The RS-232 cable costed grossly 200 NIS.
Eli
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