Re: [Sheflug] Mobile Linux

[José Luis Gómez Dans <nospam [at] sheffield.ac.uk>]

On Tue, Jun 20, 2000 at 03:18:34PM +0100, Richard wrote:
> I'm trying to find out how to link my mobile phone up to a laptop. 
> All of the present mobile phones use infra red to transmit data from
> the laptop to the internet.  My laptop doesn't have an infra red link
> on it and I'm not going to buy another one.

	This isn't true. Most mobile phones I know of (all of them, in
fact!) do not have an IR port. Usually, you can get a cable you plug in
the cellfone and on your laptop's serial port. At least, it used to be
like that. I don't know what particular phone you have, but if you have
a Nokia one, you might be interested in visiting the gnokii webpage
(look in Freshmeat). In general, what your phone does is to act as a 9k6
modem between the laptop and th PSTN.

	I'm not sure that anyone has written any software to actually
fiddle around with the EPROM the mobile phone has (so you can download
the phone directory and stuff like that).

	But definitely, no IR port needed. have a look at gsm-cables.com
(or similar, sorry!).
	Hth,
	José
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José L Gómez Dans			PhD student
					Radar & Communications Group
					Department of Electronic Engineering
					University of Sheffield UK
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