On Thu, 17 Jul 2008 18:16:44 -0700 (PDT) Pablo Manalastas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> In my Yahoo blog, I reposted Gideon Guillen's article on connecting > your Linux laptop to the Internet, using a 3G phone. I have added > other important details, in an attempt to make the connection process > as painless as possible. Here is the link to my post, which I have > also included below: Doc, I do something similar, as I'm sure you remember from when we last met. I have a SE Z800i which I got used for only 4k, it's ragged and all that but it does work very well in Japan where I frequently travel, and it suffices to get me a reasonably fast if unreliable UMTS 3G link by using a PLDT WeRoam SIM. Only problem is I don't have the data cable that it supposedly came with and have had no luck finding that odd form factor USB cable yet, but I do have a USB Bluetooth dongle I got really cheap at cdrking a few years back, and I figured out how to use it to link my phone up to my laptop and get a dialup link that way. Configuring the bluetooth stack on GNU/Linux is something well documented out there. Once it's good you can turn on Bluetooth on your mobile phone and issue an 'hcitool scan' command to determine your phone's Bluetooth device ID. It'll be a six-octet colon-separated hexadacimal number vaguely similar to an IPv6 IP address. Once you have this, you can do rfcomm connect 0 <your phone's bluetooth device ID> and this will create a /dev/rfcomm0 device that you can use instead of /dev/ttyACM0 in the wvdial configuration. That's all there is to it. I did a few things like set up an rfcomm.conf file so that the /dev/rfcomm0 file appears immediately when I plug in the dongle, but that's left as an exercise for the reader. Turned out to be ridiculously simple. Only problem is, it burns the batteries on my phone. The batteries run down from full to red in a matter of only 2-3 hours of this kind of use. It's very convenient though. -- 今日も日が登るまた沈む。朝咲く花は首から落ちる。今日も日が沈むまた登る。 辺り一面花が咲く。けれど昨日とは別の花、然れどきれいな花。 http://stormwyrm.blogspot.com
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