On Monday 07 July 2003 15:23, Kurt Wall wrote: > Quoth Bruce Marshall: > > I'm used to using pppd for connecting to the internet... and now I would > > like to use a Nextel phone connected to the serial port of the laptop. > > > > My problem is getting pppd started without the normal chat script and > > having chat dial the phone. pppd should just wait for data coming in and > > then start it's normal auth procedures. > > Demand dialing, then? > > > Is anyone out there doing this type of lashup? (or doing manual dialup > > with an external modem. I assume that would be the same situation) > > Is it a digital phone, though? If so, a "modem" makes no sense. I > certainly can't help in this regard. I'm not condemned to 57.6 > access anymore, praise de Lawd. > > Kurt
The Nextel phone has a 'connecting cable' that has a 9-pin serial connector on the laptop side of it. So I am assuming that the Nextel phone is going to be passing digital data (it should) in the same fashion that an external modem would. I am also assuming (lot of assuming going on) that dialing the ISP from the Nextel phone would be the same as: laptop <----> Ext. modem <---> telephone and then dialing the phone manually. The connecting cable didn't come with any info of any kind so I don't know whether the Nextel phone will take AT dialing commands or not. Would be nice since then it would be very straightforward.... Guess I need to google on that. But a quick test with minicom hasn't shown me any response to any AT commands. _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
