Re: Dialling INTO a wireless broadband modem with OpenMoko

2011-05-31 Thread Philip Rhoades
Timo, On 2011-05-31 06:35, Timo Juhani Lindfors wrote: Paul Fertserfercer...@gmail.com writes: Isn't the existing setup the same already (GPRS/HSDPA)? And with persist option it should be pretty reliable. I'm not sure if I would rely on persist alone. I use a combination of hardware and

Re: Dialling INTO a wireless broadband modem with OpenMoko

2011-05-30 Thread Philip Rhoades
Paul, On 2011-05-28 14:49, Paul Fertser wrote: Hi, On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 06:59:33AM +1000, Philip Rhoades wrote: On 2011-05-28 04:25, Paul Fertser wrote: Philip Rhoadesp...@pricom.com.au writes: I am wondering if it would be possible to use minicom on the Freerunner to dial the phone

Re: Dialling INTO a wireless broadband modem with OpenMoko

2011-05-30 Thread Paul Fertser
Hi, On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 03:24:49AM +1000, Philip Rhoades wrote: I assume you're already using pppd for establishing the connection from the remote system to some host in the internet that you control. No - when I plug the dongle in, I just let NetworkManager find it and set it up. I

Re: Dialling INTO a wireless broadband modem with OpenMoko

2011-05-30 Thread Philip Rhoades
Paul, On 2011-05-31 03:42, Paul Fertser wrote: Hi, On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 03:24:49AM +1000, Philip Rhoades wrote: I assume you're already using pppd for establishing the connection from the remote system to some host in the internet that you control. No - when I plug the dongle in, I just

Re: Dialling INTO a wireless broadband modem with OpenMoko

2011-05-30 Thread Paul Fertser
On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 04:40:13AM +1000, Philip Rhoades wrote: Without CSD the most reasonable option imho would be to keep a persistent connection over GPRS to some internet host you control and use it as a proxy. An alternative would be to establish GPRS connection upon an incoming (voice)

Re: Dialling INTO a wireless broadband modem with OpenMoko

2011-05-30 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
Paul Fertser fercer...@gmail.com writes: Isn't the existing setup the same already (GPRS/HSDPA)? And with persist option it should be pretty reliable. I'm not sure if I would rely on persist alone. I use a combination of hardware and software watchdogs [1] to implement reliable callback. If I

Dialling INTO a wireless broadband modem with OpenMoko

2011-05-27 Thread Philip Rhoades
People, I have a remote server with a wireless broadband modem (dongle) on it and when am visiting the remote site I can make sure the dongle is connected to the provider and leave it running like that. The connection usually stays up for some days - allowing me to log in to it remotely -

Re: Dialling INTO a wireless broadband modem with OpenMoko

2011-05-27 Thread Paul Fertser
Philip Rhoades p...@pricom.com.au writes: I am wondering if it would be possible to use minicom on the Freerunner to dial the phone number of the remote dongle, make a connection If CSD[1] is available from your provider, then you can do that, right. If not, all you can do is to write some

Re: Dialling INTO a wireless broadband modem with OpenMoko

2011-05-27 Thread Philip Rhoades
Paul, On 2011-05-28 04:25, Paul Fertser wrote: Philip Rhoadesp...@pricom.com.au writes: I am wondering if it would be possible to use minicom on the Freerunner to dial the phone number of the remote dongle, make a connection If CSD[1] is available from your provider, then you can do that,

Re: Dialling INTO a wireless broadband modem with OpenMoko

2011-05-27 Thread Paul Fertser
Hi, On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 06:59:33AM +1000, Philip Rhoades wrote: On 2011-05-28 04:25, Paul Fertser wrote: Philip Rhoadesp...@pricom.com.au writes: I am wondering if it would be possible to use minicom on the Freerunner to dial the phone number of the remote dongle, make a connection If