[OLPC India] [OLPC-Peru] [Server-devel] GPRS connectivity

[Yama Ploskonka]

Somebody might care to contact ANTEL in Uruguay.  They invested 
humongous sums in this sort of thing, sums that later were questioned :-)

In the 1997 they hooked up to big fanfare every single one-room school 
in the country with some sort of wall-mounted hardware that apparently 
was cell-phone related.

With an Aussie donated 14.000 external modem, Escuela 19 de Arequita 
connected to international educational projects at 2400 bps, including 
having the names of the Arequitense kids sent in the CD that went with 
the NASA Mars probe.  The one that crashed in Mars...  The next year the 
school closed, went under 6 kids :-(
http://www.geocities.com/yamaplos/90.htm

Yama

Jon Camfield wrote:
> On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 3:27 AM, Martin Langhoff
> <martin.langhoff at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 3:47 PM, John Watlington <wad at laptop.org> wrote:
>>  >  Did anybody ever figure out what drivers were necessary and try this
>>  >  out ?
>>  >  GPRS connectivity is being considered in some areas of Peru...
>>
>>  the stuff I've used (Sierra cards) has had modules in mainline that
>>  automagically setup a serial device that you can address with ppp. So
>>  you "dial" a bogus number to get the modem going and then go through a
>>  similarly bogus MS-CHAP auth process (that I guess are there to make
>>  things similar to how you login to an old-style internet connection).
> 
> In the past with Siemens and Motorola phones connected via USB or IR;
> I also used an usbserial device and pppd.  Somewhere I have an
> autodetect-and-dial script I made for rural schools in Jamaica based
> off of this info: http://www.polycon.fi/~laa/biblo/linux_gprs.html
> (NB: GPRS was free at the time!).
> 
>>  Do you know what devices the GPRS companies offer? A quick google
>>  shows this howto with a listing of HW known to have drivers...
>>  http://www.xs4all.nl/~ernstagn/GPRS-HOWTO/GPRS-HOWTO-3.html
>>
>>  cheers,
>>  m
>>  --
>>   martin.langhoff at gmail.com
>>   martin at laptop.org -- School Server Architect
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>>
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