Date: Sat, 20 Nov 1999 07:45:18 -0700 From: Darren Wiebe <dkwiebe@heartland.ab.ca> To: "Daniel J. O'Connor" <darius@dons.net.au> Cc: Richard Johnson <raj@cisco.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG, Duncan Barclay <dmlb@ragnet.demon.co.uk>, wwoods@cybcon.com Subject: Re: Cellular modem on a Thinkpad Message-ID: <3836B3FE.7B4FE61E@heartland.ab.ca> References: <XFMail.991121012159.darius@dons.net.au>
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"Daniel J. O'Connor" wrote: > > 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 :) Do you have the url handy for that page?? Darren Wiebe dkwiebe@hagenhomes.com > > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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