Contributed by mk/reverse on from the wires-are-for-whimps dept.
Marco Peereboom writes:
I just ran accross this and since it is suddenly affordable I was wondering if anyone uses this regularly and could share their experience.
Being online from everywhere seems to be the hot topic these days, but are there any alternatives which are less costly? What about the non-US citizens, what options do you have? Finally, since this is about mobile computing, are there any options which are better for roamers?
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By Marco Peereboom (67.64.89.177) slash@peereboom.us on www.peereboom.us
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By AdJ (212.238.188.197) on
approx $11 per MB ... A whell ...
It will work with OpenBSD if OpenBSD knows how to connect to
your phone (bluetooth) and knows how to sent the correct
(modem ?) commands.
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By jose (68.40.238.70) on http://monkey.org/~jose/
jose nazario, co author, "secure architectures with openbsd".
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By Juanjo (84.120.176.33) on http://blackshell.usebox.net/
I've used GSM to connect to the Internet (9600 bps, uh!) with ppp. The mobile phone is a lame Motorola c350 with mini USB port.
Here (Spain) the cost is like a simple call. With my provider this is about 0.12 EUR the call and 0.12 EUR each minute.
Oh, well... since obsd 3.5 crashes on my laptop (3.3 worked perfect, but a 3.5 reinstall was a bad idea), now I'm using FreeBSD... but I bet it's the same (according to the man pages).
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By Anonymous Coward (66.93.216.162) on
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By henning (199.185.136.137) on
By Anonymous Coward (203.45.41.88) on
don't winge about it here; post a bugreport!
arrrrg!Comments
By Juanjo (84.120.176.33) on http://blackshell.usebox.net/
grrrr... I did! And other people having the same problem did too!
The only think I cannot do right now is fix it myself, and since I NEED something working on my laptop, I'm trying FreeBSD 5.x (better than go back OpenBSD 3.3).
I'll retry with 3.6.
I was just saying currently I play GSM with FreeBSD, BUT it must work in the same way in OpenBSD.
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By Tabsels (213.84.53.206) irdc.nl @ wouter on
Beware of high costs (Telfort charges E. 1,50 per mbyte) and latencies (round-trip time from 0,6 to 2 or (occasionally) 3 seconds!) though. It's fine for IRC and some casual text-only browsing, but it's probably a bad idea to use it for large downloads.
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By maaten (217.19.28.254) undeadly.org@klet.st on
I doubt any of the UMTS/WCDMA cards is supported (I recogn they're all Option cards btw), but you can also fall back to GPRS use, and put the SIM in something OpenBSD does support..
By Anonymous Coward (130.233.220.23) on
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By Pete (80.203.236.21) on
+cgdcont=1,"IP","internet") here in Norway. get around 40kb/s , but with about 800ms RTT.
With my G4 powerbook, OSX also talks bluetooth to same phone for a similar connection.
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By sickness (195.43.187.17) sickness@tiscali.it on http://www.sickness.it
I'm about to change my jurassik Motorola 8700 and I would like to have a phone wich lets me do 2 simple things:
1) Connect via a cable (usb or rs232) to a computer with linux or openbsd, and set up an internet connection with gprs.
2) Download the SMS messages that arrives on the phone.
The model and the brand does not matter for me, as long as it just works, but I'm not able to find ONE model that works for sure :///
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By Wim (194.78.199.76) on
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By henning (199.185.136.137) on
i don't use gprs (too lazy to look up how ;), plain old gsm data connection fine for the few times i use this), but plain gsm data connections I use(d) successfull with several Siemens Sxx phones and SonyEricsson stuff, T68i and P800. should note that I did not even have to change my ppp configuration in all that time.
By Anonymous Coward (139.78.10.139) on
As a side note, I'd use OpenBSD on this laptop, but it won't power down (only way to turn it off is to pull the battery). OpenBSD runs on it better than FreeBSD in every way except for the powerdown issue and we don't yet have a Bluetooth stack. I'd really like to do a bluetooth stack myself, but I am far from a systems programmer. I was hoping somebody would do it in NetBSD first and we could import it (FreeBSD's is netgraph based).
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By infol33k (66.113.128.10) on
By Wim (194.78.199.76) wim@kd85.com on http://kd85.com/
In most European countries, the GPRS/UMTS solutions offered are those of Vodafone. They use a standard card made by a (Belgian) company called 'Option Wireless Technology' (see http://www.option.com)
They have cards, some even combine wifi + GPRS + UMTS.
For support under unix, see the http://www.kuix.de/umts/vodafone/
If you plug in the card under OpenBSD (3.6), you get:
which tell me I should probably lend out my card to some developer ;)Comments
By Wim (194.78.199.76) wim@kd85.com on