pppd with laptop and cellphone

[Kurt Wall]

Quoth Bruce Marshall:
> I'm used to using pppd for connecting to the internet...  and now I would like 
> to use a Nextel phone connected to the serial port of the laptop.
> 
> My problem is getting pppd started without the normal chat script and having 
> chat dial the phone.  pppd should just wait for data coming in and then start 
> it's normal auth procedures.

Demand dialing, then?

> Is anyone out there doing this type of lashup? (or doing manual dialup with 
> an external modem.  I assume that would be the same situation)

Is it a digital phone, though? If so, a "modem" makes no sense. I
certainly can't help in this regard. I'm not condemned to 57.6
access anymore, praise de Lawd.

Kurt
-- 
The meek shall inherit the earth -- they are too weak to refuse.