Dialling INTO a wireless broadband modem with OpenMoko

[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 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).
>
> OK, I will check with VirginMobile (Australia) but if that doesn't work  
> I could switch to Telstra.  Are there some working scripts around to do  
> the PPP stuff?

There's plenty of examples for using gprs/3g under GNU/Linux the
"manual way".

I assume you're already using pppd for establishing the connection
from the remote system to some host in the internet that you
control. I think simply adding "persist lcp-echo-failure 10
lcp-echo-interval 5" options to its config (/etc/ppp/options or
/etc/ppp/peers/<yourpppdscript> or some other way specific to how you
start pppd) should be enough.

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