pppd with laptop and cellphone

[Bruce Marshall]

On Monday 07 July 2003 15:23, Kurt Wall wrote:
> 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 Nextel phone has a 'connecting cable' that has a 9-pin serial connector on 
the laptop side of it.  So I am assuming that the Nextel phone is going to be 
passing digital data (it should) in the same fashion that an external modem 
would.

I am also assuming (lot of assuming going on) that dialing the ISP from the 
Nextel phone would be the same as:


laptop   <---->   Ext. modem  <--->  telephone   

and then dialing the phone manually.  

The connecting cable didn't come with any info of any kind so I don't know 
whether the Nextel phone will take AT dialing commands or not.  Would be nice 
since then it would be very straightforward....  Guess I need to google on 
that.  But a quick test with minicom hasn't shown me any response to any AT 
commands.