---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: निशांत शर्मा | Nishant Sharma <*** [at] gmail.com> Date: Mar 1, 2006 8:07 PM Subject: Re: got tata indicom cdma card working with ubuntu linux on acer laptop To: Linux Lingam <***>
Hi Niyam, On 3/1/06, Linux Lingam wrote: > thanks nishant. you are the game, the game is you. You are welcome *blush*. In fact, I had a lot more plans, even to create the similar watcher software for GNU/Linux but couldn't get time and motivation. > 1. wish to make and receive ordinary phone calls from this card. what > do i need? i don't even know if i need a headset that jams into the > sound and mic port of the laptop, or a special one that plugs into the > aircard. what software? You can easily make an outgoing phone call. Put in your Samsung/Nokia handsfree in the aircard and use minicom to issue this command: AT+CDVnnnnnnnnnn (nnnnnnnnnn is the number you want to place call to) To disconnect the call: AT+CHV You can recieve the incoming call, but no ring is heard. That's what the Sierra Watcher software does in Windows. Command to recieve the call is: AT$QCCAV > > 2. any way of sending and receiving sms? Yup ;-). I am able to read the SMS using minicom only: !CNTSMS should tell you the number of SMS in the inbox. !GSMS=i,m (i=index no., m=message no.) displays the mth message in ith index. I don't remember it exactly, but would send you the commands reference for this card that I have somewhere on my laptop ;-) > 3. gotta go and install skype. by the way, just discovered somewhere > that the *.deb package of skype is flawed to run on deb or ubuntu. so > get the *.rpm package, run alien to make it into a deb, and install > that. Hmm... Don't know about that, but yes, I had to compile and install skype_dsp_hijacker over skype as it has a bug to lock the sound card being accessed by OSS and not ALSA on the debian. The incoming voice speed is double too, may be because of cheap half-duplex sound cards used on the laptops. Festival also had similar problem. Also, did you face any trouble running pack_cis command on Ubuntu? As I have seen people complaining that it throws some error because of Ubuntu using new gcc and libc? yes, i did face a bug. googled around and found the fix was to upgrade to pcmcia-cs-3.2.7-3.2. i could not find a deb of this. so first installed alien, then downloaded an rpm, alien converted it to deb, then ran dpkg on it, and got it running. interesting side-effect of doing this though. the cardinfo utility, that little gui thingie, disappears, and am at a loss to get it back. also, i installed 'gnome phone manager' in the hope i'd get a gui-based sms send and receive utility running from the taskbar. it could not sense the card and just showed a disconnected sign. regards, Nishant PS: Please forward this to ILUGD list, as my gmail account is not subscribed. -- How about some patent on "(a+b)2 = a2+2ab+b2". Choose free software! http://www.nishants.net :-) niyam _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
