Dialling INTO a wireless broadband modem with OpenMoko

[Philip Rhoades]

Paul,


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


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?

Thanks,

Phil.
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Philip Rhoades

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