Date: Sun, 21 Nov 1999 01:21:59 +1030 (CST) From: "Daniel J. O'Connor" <darius@dons.net.au> To: Richard Johnson <raj@cisco.com> Cc: 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: <XFMail.991121012159.darius@dons.net.au> In-Reply-To: <14390.21342.139977.56945@kitab.cisco.com>
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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-mobile" in the body of the message
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