On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 3:27 AM, Martin Langhoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 3:47 PM, John Watlington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Did anybody ever figure out what drivers were necessary and try this > > out ? > > GPRS connectivity is being considered in some areas of Peru... > > the stuff I've used (Sierra cards) has had modules in mainline that > automagically setup a serial device that you can address with ppp. So > you "dial" a bogus number to get the modem going and then go through a > similarly bogus MS-CHAP auth process (that I guess are there to make > things similar to how you login to an old-style internet connection).
In the past with Siemens and Motorola phones connected via USB or IR; I also used an usbserial device and pppd. Somewhere I have an autodetect-and-dial script I made for rural schools in Jamaica based off of this info: http://www.polycon.fi/~laa/biblo/linux_gprs.html (NB: GPRS was free at the time!). > Do you know what devices the GPRS companies offer? A quick google > shows this howto with a listing of HW known to have drivers... > http://www.xs4all.nl/~ernstagn/GPRS-HOWTO/GPRS-HOWTO-3.html > > cheers, > m > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- School Server Architect > - ask interesting questions > - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first > - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff > > > _______________________________________________ > Server-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel > -- Jon Camfield http://www.JonCamfield.com MA, Elliott School of International Affairs in International Science and Technology Policy RPCV 2002-04, Ministry of Education, Kingston, Jamaica PGP Key: http://joncamfield.com/pgp.key.txt _______________________________________________ Server-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
