From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 3 20:32:26 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3896A16A419 for ; Mon, 3 Dec 2007 20:32:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from josh@tcbug.org) Received: from cenn-smtp.mc.mpls.visi.com (cenn.mc.mpls.visi.com [208.42.156.9]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 240C113C46E for ; Mon, 3 Dec 2007 20:32:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from josh@tcbug.org) Received: from mail.tcbug.org (mail.tcbug.org [208.42.70.163]) by cenn-smtp.mc.mpls.visi.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE49A81E4; Mon, 3 Dec 2007 14:32:24 -0600 (CST) Received: from build64.tcbug.org (unknown [208.42.70.167]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.tcbug.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 618CE10AA88D; Mon, 3 Dec 2007 14:32:24 -0600 (CST) From: Josh Paetzel To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2007 14:32:20 -0600 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <1196712532.4754625481123@webmail.rawbw.com> In-Reply-To: <1196712532.4754625481123@webmail.rawbw.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1398245.iK01BdmFDA"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200712031432.23825.josh@tcbug.org> Cc: Yuri Subject: Re: Any experience using cellphone as a modem on FreeBSD? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 03 Dec 2007 20:32:26 -0000 --nextPart1398245.iK01BdmFDA Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Monday 03 December 2007 02:08:52 pm Yuri wrote: > I have Motorola cellphone with data package on it and FreeBSD laptop. > It would be very nice to have internet everywhere. > Anybody uses/used cellphone this way? > > I know internet connectivity can go through the special cable and maybe > through Bluetooth. > > I guess from FreeBSD side it should look like USB modem. > > Thanks, > Yuri I've done it, and it's painful....took me the better part of two days to ge= t=20 working. The main sticking points are you need to dial some arbitrary numb= er=20 that your provider won't be able to tell you without spending 5 hours on th= e=20 phone, and you need to know your username (relatively easy to find) and you= r=20 password (harder than hell to find). Once you have all that figured out, AND you've made sure your data plan=20 includes "Phone as Modem" capability, you can link to it with bluetooth and= =20 then dial out over it with PPP. mmmm, that reminds me, the ppp chat script was fairly hard to figure out to= o. =2D-=20 Thanks, Josh Paetzel PGP: 8A48 EF36 5E9F 4EDA 5A8C 11B4 26F9 01F1 27AF AECB --nextPart1398245.iK01BdmFDA Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBHVGfXJvkB8SevrssRAuX5AJ4rzoKzlGSPXCTe5gfC9sFc4p0paACeM0DR 1OWVPvJfJ5x0d/IvFFKdsJ0= =1/KO -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1398245.iK01BdmFDA--