From owner-freebsd-mobile Thu May 4 6: 3:44 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from midget.dons.net.au (daniel.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.137.70]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1005F37BE14 for ; Thu, 4 May 2000 06:03:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from darius@guppy.dons.net.au) Received: from guppy.dons.net.au (guppy.dons.net.au [203.31.81.9]) by midget.dons.net.au (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id WAA35394; Thu, 4 May 2000 22:33:33 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from darius@guppy.dons.net.au) Received: (from darius@localhost) by guppy.dons.net.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) id WAA21402; Thu, 4 May 2000 22:33:32 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from darius) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20000504055751.A63297@greycat.com> Date: Thu, 04 May 2000 22:33:31 +0930 (CST) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: Dann Lunsford Subject: RE: Advice re: cellular (?) and laptops Cc: mobile@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 04-May-00 Dann Lunsford wrote: > 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, There is a program called gnokii (www.gnokii.org) which aims to be able to talk to a variety of mobile phones. I am currently trying to get it working under FreeBSD. --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message