From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 19 15:23:57 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.cybcon.com (mail.cybcon.com [216.190.188.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D5C3D14E3E; Fri, 19 Nov 1999 15:23:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wwoods@cybcon.com) Received: from freebsd.cybcon.com (william@pm3a-2.cybcon.com [205.147.75.131]) by mail.cybcon.com (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id PAA10102; Fri, 19 Nov 1999 15:23:45 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3.1 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Fri, 19 Nov 1999 15:22:15 -0800 (PST) Reply-To: wwoods@cybcon.com From: William Woods To: Duncan Barclay Subject: RE: Cellular modem on a Thinkpad Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hmm....well, The phone is a Qualcom, diual modem (digital and analog), as for GSM or US Standards, I would assume US standards.... On 19-Nov-99 Duncan Barclay wrote: > > On 19-Nov-99 Bill Woods wrote: >> I have a chance to buy a "cellular kit" from my cell provider, but before >> I do, I want to ask a few questions. >> >> This "kit" is basically a cable that runs from the serial port on a laptop >> to the cell phone. There is some software, but oif course it is windows >> only. I know this is limited information, but this is all I have. I assume >> the cable acts like a modem on a serial port, but does anyone know if >> FreeBSD has any support for anything like this? >> >> William > > Is this a GSM cellphone or one the the US standards? > > If it's GSM then a lot depends on the model of handset. The GSM 07.x > series of specifications includes a terminal adaptation layer which > presents a Hayes modem like interface to the end user but can hide all > sorts of nasties. So the software you are buying may just be a all of > the stuff to manage a phone book etc. via AT commands, or it may be > a AT command to something funny layer. > > I've sort of started playing around with some Tcl and Tk to edit the > phone book etc. on my GSM handset. As the phone book is accessable via > AT commands it should be portable to any phone. I use a Xircom RealPort > and Ericsson GF768. > > Duncan > > --- > ________________________________________________________________________ > Duncan Barclay | God smiles upon the little children, > dmlb@ragnet.demon.co.uk | the alcoholics, and the permanently stoned. > ________________________________________________________________________ ---------------------------------- E-Mail: William Woods Date: 19-Nov-99 Time: 15:21:03 FreeBSD 3.3 -Stable ---------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message