Re: SMSC AT and PIN and quotation marks

Alexander Malysh <[email protected]> Wed, 13 Oct 2004 19:32:29 +0200

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.mobile.kannel.devel
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

Hi,

"Pommnitz, JÃ¶rg" wrote:

> Hello all,
> today I tried to use a NOKIA GSM PCCard with Kannel. Unfortunately
> it failed to work out of the box because the Nokia card did not accept
> Kannels "AT+CPIN=1234" syntax. It requires the PIN to be in quotation
> marks, e.g. AT+CPIN="1234". I know at least one other Mobile that requires
> the quotation marks as well.

yep, this is true for nokia and doesn't break other handsets... 
btw. fixed in cvs 2-3weeks ago...

> 
> I think the rationale behind this is that the PIN is actually a "password
> string" in ETSI speak and strings are supposed to be limted by quotation
> marks. I know a number of mobiles that accept both versions and none that
> breaks with quotation marks, so I would suggest to add the quotation marks
> to the code.
> 
> Regards
>   JÃ¶rg

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Thanks,
Alex