From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Nov 20 6:53:44 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from midget.dons.net.au (daniel.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.137.70]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0AAC014DA4; Sat, 20 Nov 1999 06:53:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from darius@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 BAA06292; Sun, 21 Nov 1999 01:23:17 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from darius@dons.net.au) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [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: <14390.21342.139977.56945@kitab.cisco.com> Date: Sun, 21 Nov 1999 01:21:59 +1030 (CST) From: "Daniel J. O'Connor" To: Richard Johnson Subject: RE: Cellular modem on a Thinkpad Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG, Duncan Barclay , wwoods@cybcon.com Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 20-Nov-99 Richard Johnson wrote: > Asking Qualcomm about it, I received a canned response which didn't > really directly address my questions, but it seemed to be hinting that > maybe I saw nothing because my phone hadn't been "enabled" for their > type of data communication. Apparently this is a service which costs > somewhere around $4/month. I'm guessing that if you haven't signed up > for the service, then the modem part doesn't work? Or maybe there's > some special code which has to be sent to the phone to enable it? For Nokia 5110/6110 etc phones, you need to hold DTR and RTS high so that the adapter will be powered (these 2 lines run to a low dropout regulator which powers a 3.3v RS232 converter. (At least thats what the diag. on this 'build your own' cable page says :) No idea if this is possible without writting your own custom comms program though. --- 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-questions" in the body of the message