From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Dsv2Z-0004Vb-Ov for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 14 Jul 2005 04:09:40 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j6E48k0G014260; Thu, 14 Jul 2005 04:08:46 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j6E45EaU032080 for ; Thu, 14 Jul 2005 04:05:14 GMT Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DsuyJ-0000Pu-Fi for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 14 Jul 2005 04:05:15 +0000 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1Dsuxs-0003s2-J5 for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Thu, 14 Jul 2005 06:04:48 +0200 Received: from buffer.net ([24.73.161.102]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 14 Jul 2005 06:04:48 +0200 Received: from wireless by buffer.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 14 Jul 2005 06:04:48 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: James Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: GPRS - Anyone aware of any packages which do this? Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 04:04:38 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org User-Agent: Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) X-Loom-IP: 24.73.161.102 (Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050517) Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: 3fdcfae7-0e08-42e8-8023-8455c13af194 X-Archives-Hash: 3ff35c6b37c8b2d832d5a8c706c40612 Michael Haan gmail.com> writes: > I guess what I'm trying to figure out is what exists either in > gentoo-space specifically, or linux-space generally (in that order) > for working with GPRS. GSM-GPRS is virtually a TCP/IP highway. All you need is ppp or TCP/IP on top of it. If you get service from T mobile (or whoever) and you tell them you want to use it for Internet access, they'll sell you cables that plug into your usb/serial/zigbee/bluetooth/pccard or irda port. I'm pretty sure it's just ppp over a physical connection with GSM-GPRS. Not positive though... If the vendor give you crap that only MS/Apple work, just sniff the connection. emerge -s gsm reveals: app-mobilephone/gsmlib Latest version available: 1.11_pre030826 Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ] Size of downloaded files: 465 kB Homepage: http://www.pxh.de/fs/gsmlib/ Description: Library and Applications to access GSM mobile phones License: LGPL-2 * media-sound/gsm Latest version available: 1.0.10 Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ] Size of downloaded files: 64 kB Homepage: http://kbs.cs.tu-berlin.de/~jutta/toast.html Description: Lossy speech compression library and tool. License: OSI-Approved Googling for 'GPRS linux' produces a wealth of useful information. http://www.developertutorials.com/tutorials/wireless-technology/ linux-wireless-networking-050504/page4.html HTH James -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list