Re: is any body using birda to talk to PPP thru their mobile phone?

On Fri, Aug 02, 2002 at 07:47:54PM -0500, John Utz wrote:

> Hi all;
Hi there! ;)

Actually, I successfully do PPP-over-GSM with Nokia 6210 
(HSCSD - connect 38.4K ;) ). but there's some differences:

1st: Mine is DELL Latitude CPi which uses some SMC-chip as IrDA, and
     it allows BSD to see IrDA port as usual sio1.

2nd: sio1 works well, and doesn't matter if I set up SIR/FIR mode for IrDA.

btw, how your kernel indentifies your IrDA?
Could you mail me your kernel config?

> note that the device on my laptop shows up in dmesg as
> 
> chip2: <VLSI 82C147 IrDa controller> port 0x3000-0x301f irq 10 at device 
> 6.0 on pci0

82Cxxx looks like VIA??? Is there sio emulation mode or not?

> 
> this is an HP800CT running 4.6-RELEASE with birda-1.00 from packages.

Same: 4.5-RELEASE, 4.5-STABLE, now it's 4.6-RELEASE with birda-0.8, 
      then 1.00 ;)

> 
> any help appreciated, but obviously, i'll continue reading the birda man 
> pages whist i wait :-)

neuromancer# cat ppp-gsm

#/bin/sh
ircomm -d /dev/cuaa1 -y /dev/ptypa -Y
ppp -ddial gsm

If you want I could mail you my ppp config, but it really 
depends on your phone operator. The only major note is that connection
should be made (in my example) to /dev/ttypa

I'm afraid it's the only way to get PPP-over-GSM running using birda:
IrDA chip should support sio emulation. If not, IMHO, you should wait
until IrDA stack will be implemented into kernel... ;(

btw, does anyone of committers work on it? It would be cool to have 100%
IrDA under FreeBSD... Actually, I would like to control IrCOMM parameters
(not only default 57600,8N1) and get more speed than 115Kbit/s (less need)...

-- 
BR,
Kirill Bezzubets                                CASE-RIPE CASE-RIPN
Senior Administrator, Technical Department      mailto:[email protected]
Solaris ISP & Telecommunications Co. Ltd        http://www.solaris.ru

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