Re: [9fans] just checking ...

["Gabriel Diaz" <gabidiaz@gmail.com>]

Hello

that card seems to be nice for out of band management of non-mobile
equipment, isn't it better to use a usb one? i think Christoph has an
usb serial driver for plan9, that way you can use it with a notebook too :-?

gabi


On 3/23/06, Ronald G Minnich <rminnich@lanl.gov> wrote:
> erik quanstrom wrote:
> > what equipment/service provider are you going to use?
>
> I'm using t-mobil, unlimited data plan for $19.95/month.
>
> I just bought a sim card; phone is
> this:http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/product_info.php?products_id=478
>
> I'm talking to plan 9 from cell, and have got to this point:
> OK
> at+cgdcont=1,"IP","internet2.voicestream.com"
>
> OK
> ATDT*99#
> ATDT*99#
> CONNECT
>
> according to the t-mobil web site, I'm now ready to talk ppp.I've
> started ppp as follows:
> bind -a '#I' /net.alt
>   ip/ppp -f -p /dev/eia0  -x /net.alt &
>
> not having done this on plan 9, I'm not quite sure what happens next. It
> seems an ip/ipconfig is in order. I'm not sure what t-mobil does for all
> this; many details appear to live in a windows driver. My reading of the
> various gsm docs implies that the provider has to give me a private IP
> address.
>
> /net.alt looks like this:
> /net.alt/arp
> /net.alt/bootp
> /net.alt/esp
> /net.alt/gre
> /net.alt/icmp
> /net.alt/icmpv6
> /net.alt/il
> /net.alt/ipifc
> /net.alt/ipmux
> /net.alt/iproute
> /net.alt/ipselftab
> /net.alt/log
> /net.alt/ndb
> /net.alt/rudp
> /net.alt/tcp
> /net.alt/udp
> hm. what would I ipconfig against? Time to go RTFWiki
>
> ron
>