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| DATE | 2001-12-28 |
| FROM | Joe Villari
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| SUBJECT | Re: [hangout] Laptops, Internet and Cell Phones
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Thanks Billy.
Is there a howto on this or a man page (I haven't found any) or is it
really that easy?
Joe
>that would have been me, my linux-running Vaio, and Peter Norton's Nokia.
>
>the thing is to get irda all set up.
>minicom /dev/ircomm0
>does the rest. The nokia (and all other phones, presumably)
>presents a regular hayes AT over the ircomm device. Then exit
>minicom without resetting the modem using ctrl-a,q and quickly start
>pppd /dev/ircomm0.
>
>it is, of course, possible to do this all in a ppp config file, but
>that is another breidge to cross...
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