Dialling INTO a wireless broadband modem with OpenMoko

[Paul Fertser]

Philip Rhoades <phil at 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 smart enough script
that would do something with the connection once it tears off (in
fact, probably simply adding "persist" option to pppd will suffice).

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circuit_Switched_Data

HTH
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