I've got the GTran card that Telecom are flogging off working perfectly[1] in both 2.2 and 2.4, with both the GTran-supplied-2.2.x drivers ported to 2.4, and with the stock 2.4 serial drivers. Tricks to note with the GTran: - Set it to 57600 with setserial; with serial-port-multiplier shenanigans, it's not actually running at 57600, so just pretend it doesnt say so. - The thing at telecom that terminates your PPP connection appears unable to correctly indiciate it's preference of ppp-escape-character-tricks; go ahead and tell pppd to use it's default-asyncmap. - The windows drivers issue the following ATZ AT&C0 ATE0 AT+IFC=2,2;X4 to initialize the modem. which, according to my at command reference[3] means ATZ : I'm sure you know thix one :) AT&C0 : Sets the CF high all the time ATE0 : Echo off AT+IFC=2,2 : Sets hardware flowcontrol for tx/rx X4 : Turns on better result codes Once they're going, the rock along. Average latency appears to be ~300ms, and I got it up to the advertised 153kbps quite fine. Much better than my GPRS kit, which does ~800-1200ms, and peaks at ~30kbps. The drivers also suck a lot less than the Nokia D211 ones. Cellular data is cool. It's just a pity that we get to pay 1992-style datacharges for it. Way to set things back a decade. Regards, Adam [1] On real x86 kit only; I'm still battling with it to get it to function on my Transmeta Crusoe based tablet-pc[2] [2] Which, might I add, we've had running linux since long before this whole Windows-tablet-hoo-hah became fashionable. [3] No, I can't give it to you. I had to promise not to to get it. Yes, it's just a modem manual. Yes you ought to get it when you buy a $1.2k modem. Don't tell me. I know. ----------------------------------- Adam Boileau <adamb@asterisk.co.nz> Senior Engineer - Security/Networking Asterisk - www.asterisk.co.nz Cell : +64-21-360905 Office: +64-9-3021777 On Tue, 17 Dec 2002, Donald Gordon wrote: > On 17 Dec 2002 10:36:16 +1300 > Andrew Thompson <andy@fud.org.nz> wrote: > > > Has anyone got the Telecom dotsurfer card working? They say it works in > > the 2.2 kernel but do not elaborate at all. > > > > It gets detected as a standard modem in my laptop but ppp hangs when > > trying to open the port. > > I had it sort-of working with 2.4 (they have a driver for 2.2 but it > comes with non-english instructions which was a bit inconvenient). I > could bring up the connection, but couldn't (most of the time) get > anything to work. It was (thankfully) only on loan anyway :-) > > don > > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > To remove yourself from this list, email nzlug-request@linux.net.nz > with "unsubscribe" in the body of the message. > ------------------------------------------------------------------- To remove yourself from this list, email nzlug-request@linux.net.nz with "unsubscribe" in the body of the message.
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