Dear all, (My first post to the list. :))
Was wondering how popular is the Reliance Internet access through their CDMA phones from Linux boxes? Are you guys regularly using it? Have you got it working through USB, or are you using it only through serial cables? We've just got it working through serial cable and an LG phone, and it was certainly more of a headache than getting a connection to the usual VSNL or MTNL. So I thought I'd check how some of you have done. Do the Samsung phones work just as well? I'll certainly like to hear any news you have about what worked, what didn't, what's flaky, ... any details. We're seriously considering this as a very attractive fallback or emergency Internet access mechanism from Linux boxes wherever Internet-over-cable and DSL are not available, either due to infrastructural reasons or because they "went down just last night." If this CDMA Internet thing can be made to work from all Linux boxes everywhere, then we can roll out "Internet access" virtually at the drop of a hat from any client location. (We are in the business of providing networking infrastructure setup to clients.) Very attractive ease of use: we send an engineer to client site, with a phone and cable in his pocket. He just plugs in this small, light phone into a serial port of the Linux server there, runs a couple of commands, and we then sit in office and happily SSH into the client's server, do maintenance, and so on. It almost becomes Internet "plucked off the air" ... :) Friends in the techie core group in Reliance Infocomm tell me they couldn't get the USB cable to work with Linux; something about no drivers being there in Linux yet for the chipsets used in these phones. I haven't verified. Let me know what you guys found... I'll be very interested. Thanks and regards, Shuvam _______________________________________________ ilugd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
