Newbie questions

[Al Johnson]

On Monday 09 March 2009, Mile Davidovic wrote:
> Hello
> What about CSD or data call?
>
> What is best way to enable CSD functionality?

That'll depend on which distro you're using as they mediate access to the GSM 
modem differently.

2008.x uses QtExtended but I can't give you any pointers as to how it works 
beyond that.

For distros using the freesmartphone.org dbus API you can use  
org.freesmartphone.GSM.MUX.AllocChannel to get a virtual tty, then use pppd to 
make your CSD connection over that tty as normal. Remember to free the channel 
after the connection is terminated. That's the theory anyway - I haven't 
actually tried it! See docs.freesmartphone.org for invocation details.

There may be a case for extending the API to include 
org.freesmartphone.GSM.CSD as well as the existing PDP coverage.