From owner-freebsd-mobile Thu May 4 5:57:47 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from bigphred.greycat.com (bigphred.greycat.com [207.173.133.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 033EE37B9C8 for ; Thu, 4 May 2000 05:57:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dann@bigphred.greycat.com) Received: (from dann@localhost) by bigphred.greycat.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id FAA63413 for mobile@freebsd.org; Thu, 4 May 2000 05:57:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dann) Date: Thu, 4 May 2000 05:57:51 -0700 From: Dann Lunsford To: mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Advice re: cellular (?) and laptops Message-ID: <20000504055751.A63297@greycat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I need some advice, I've a Toshiba Satellite I use all over the place. I've a Viking 56K modem and a DE-660 ethercard stuck in the PCMCIA slots, and no complaints about either. However, sometimes I'm stuck in places where I have neither a phone jack nor an ethernet jack handy, yet must have dialup access back to my work network. I'm getting very confused by what I'm being told by cellular/PCS/whatever vendors, Ideally, I'd like to just plug in my modem to a cell phone (of whatever type) and use it just like any other phone. I'm being told this is not possible. Well, what is possible, and what would I have to buy to achieve it? Assume I'm running 4.0-STABLE, Does this even make sense? :-) Thanks in advance. -- Dann Lunsford The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil dann@greycat.com is that men of good will do nothing. -- Cicero To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message