Re: config for samba 75 (siemens mc75) usb modem

Yaw,
	Thanks for sharing your configuration, you bring up a great point  
about the difficulty of obtaining proper configs. . . . I spent two  
days trying to get a wavecom modem to play nice . . . to no avail.

	Does anyone on the list know of any external resources that aggregate  
configuration info for kannel? I know the modems.conf file was updated  
recently, but it's still lacking a lot of working and tested configs.  
Would the list be supportive of an external site that aggregated +  
shared this info?

My expertise is in web development, not AT Commands and Modem  
configs . . . but I would be more than happy to spend the time setting  
up a wiki / web site where people could contribute, and hopefully  
avoid the hours of frustration I've dealt with getting kannel to work  
well with various flavors of modems.

Who would be the proper point of contact on the kannel dev team to  
discuss this with?


List - please advise.

thanks,

-Ben
On Oct 8, 2008, at 6:35 PM, Yaw Anokwa wrote:

> i've been struggling to get kannel to work with a fairly popular sms
> modem. i've finally figured it out and i'm sending this out in case
> others have this problem.
>
> i am using kannel v1.4.1 in ubuntu 8.01 (hardy heron). i have a falcom
> samba 75 usb gsm gprs edge modem. i got it from expansys at
> http://www.expansys-usa.com/p.aspx?i=136849/. the modem identifies
> itself in kannel and gammu as a siemens mc75 device. below is the
> working modem definition with which i can receive and send smses. the
> messages, once processed are discarded.
>
> group = smsc
> smsc = at
> modemtype = siemens_mc75
> device = /dev/ttyACM0
>
> group = modems
> id = siemens_mc75
> name = "Siemens MC75"
> detect-string = "SIEMENS"
> detect-string2 = "MC75"
> speed = 115200
> init-string = "AT+CNMI=2,2,0,1,1"
> message-storage = "ME"
>
> if you want more information about how i figured this out, read the  
> following.
> http://www.activexperts.com/activcomport/at/hayes/
> http://www.activexperts.com/activcomport/tutorials/sms/
> http://www.activexperts.com/xmstoolkit/sms/
>
> if all fails, switch to gammu at http://www.gammu.org/. manually
> configuring things as connection=at115200 and model=at worked pretty
> well.
>
> i really hope the kannel community starts posting lists of currently
> available devices that works with their code and the configs for those
> devices. right now, it's way too hard to get things up and running.
>