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On Sunday 02 December 2007, Grant wrote: |
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> Has anyone attached their cell phone to their Gentoo system to act as |
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> a modem? This would be great for traveling. I'm with Sprint (no |
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> contract) but I think I'll switch to T-Mobile because from what I |
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> understand they are the only cell phone provider in the US which uses |
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> the GSM band. That way I should be able to use the phone/modem |
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> internationally. Has anyone set this up? Any phones look |
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> particularly good for this? |
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Last time I used my cell phone (in the UK) it was over an irda connection and |
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ppp dial up. Happy to share my outdated settings if you're interested, but I |
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would think that your should be able to set up a bluetooth connection to your |
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phone and use the GPRS connection which should be much faster than the |
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9600baud that my old phone could handle. |
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Some of this may be useful to you: |
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http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Access_the_internet_with_your_cellphone_and_bluetooth_(UMTS/GPRS) |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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