On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am with cingular. They offer both a serial or a usb connection. > > It could not be as simple as redoing the soft link of ../modem to sttyx for > the serial could it? What about the usb?
1) Speed: I'm not sure about GSM rates, but sprint is roughly 128k down/50k up with 300-700ms latency. So USB or serial isn't going to matter. 2) With linux, serial will be the most compatible, but USB isn't too hard either. A default redhat setup will recognize the USB device as a regular usb modem (ACM device), load the module, and will be available as /dev/usb/ttyACM0. Just link that to /dev/modem and you're set. 3) Again, not sure about cingular, but with sprint, you set up the ppp dialer almost like you would a regular dialup connect, but instead of dialing a 7 digit number, you dial *777 to tell the phone to go into packet switching mode. YMMV. RF _______________________________________________ RLUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug
