i've been struggling to get kannel to work with a fairly popular sms
modem. i've finally figured it out and i'm sending this out in case
others have this problem.

i am using kannel v1.4.1 in ubuntu 8.01 (hardy heron). i have a falcom
samba 75 usb gsm gprs edge modem. i got it from expansys at
http://www.expansys-usa.com/p.aspx?i=136849/. the modem identifies
itself in kannel and gammu as a siemens mc75 device. below is the
working modem definition with which i can receive and send smses. the
messages, once processed are discarded.

group = smsc
smsc = at
modemtype = siemens_mc75
device = /dev/ttyACM0

group = modems
id = siemens_mc75
name = "Siemens MC75"
detect-string = "SIEMENS"
detect-string2 = "MC75"
speed = 115200
init-string = "AT+CNMI=2,2,0,1,1"
message-storage = "ME"

if you want more information about how i figured this out, read the following.
http://www.activexperts.com/activcomport/at/hayes/
http://www.activexperts.com/activcomport/tutorials/sms/
http://www.activexperts.com/xmstoolkit/sms/

if all fails, switch to gammu at http://www.gammu.org/. manually
configuring things as connection=at115200 and model=at worked pretty
well.

i really hope the kannel community starts posting lists of currently
available devices that works with their code and the configs for those
devices. right now, it's way too hard to get things up and running.

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