[work] Re: [ltp] Using Sprint Cell Phone for KPPP

[Norman Levin]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "billy ball" <bball@tux.org>
To: "Linux on Thinkpad List" <linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org>
Sent: Sunday, February 02, 2003 2:39 PM
Subject: [work] Re: [ltp] Using Sprint Cell Phone for KPPP


| On 31 Jan 2003, James Mckenzie wrote:
| 
| > Anyone figured out how to use a Sprint Cell phone as a modem device
| > under Linux?  If not, is there a HOW-TO on this subject?
| 
| i used to use my TimePort... plug in the cable, then plug into your laptop 
| (i also used a Targus PCMCIA serial I/O adapter and USB->Serial I/O)...
| 
| you may have to use the setserial command to ensure accurate bps settings 
| (spd_norm or spd_hi? can't remember)...
| 
| i've since moved on to a Kyocera w/Verizon (115200 vs 19200 on Sprint)... 
| works just as well!
| 
| -- 
What phone? the 7035? - the one with the PDA built in?
norm