Re: Cellular Data Service

2005-07-13 Thread Nate Duehr
jeffd wrote: I have been using a Sierra wireless AirCard 750. It's just plain gprs, no edge, but it works ok. In order to get signal strength you need to send it: at+csq That should work on most gprs cards. Jeff Thanks for this tip, Jeff - I finally got time to test this last night and can

Re: Cellular Data Service

2005-07-06 Thread jeffd
Nate Duehr wrote: Rhomboid wrote: Anyone have a working laptop/cellular phone (or cellular wifi card) combination running on Linux on a US provider (Cingular/Verizon EDGE network or similar)? Someone asked me recently if I'd done any work to figure out how to get special information out of

Re: Cellular Data Service

2005-07-01 Thread Nate Duehr
Hans du Plooy wrote: On Thu, 2005-06-30 at 00:27 -0600, Nate Duehr wrote: GSM acts like a regular old modem to pcmcia, and you feed it odd dialing strings that I found documented online. Would you mind posting those to the list? Thanks! No problem, but I found them through Google, and the

Re: Cellular Data Service

2005-06-30 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Thu, 2005-06-30 at 00:27 -0600, Nate Duehr wrote: > GSM acts like a regular old modem to pcmcia, and you feed it odd dialing > strings that I found documented online. Would you mind posting those to the list? Thanks! -- Kind Regards Hans du Plooy SagacIT (Pty) Ltd hansdp at sagacit dot com

Re: Cellular Data Service

2005-06-29 Thread Nate Duehr
Rhomboid wrote: Anyone have a working laptop/cellular phone (or cellular wifi card) combination running on Linux on a US provider (Cingular/Verizon EDGE network or similar)? It's slow, but the Sony GC79 combo 802.11b and GSM card works okay. I use one on T-mobile's network. 56K down, 28K up