[OLPC India] [Server-devel] GPRS connectivity
Martin Langhoff
martin.langhoff at gmail.com
Thu May 1 03:27:33 EDT 2008
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).
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
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