Hey Kyle You might want to check with Huwai and ZTE if they are still operational for exact copies of the Ericsson boxes. At a much lower price. Best to test one first as some copies of teir Cisco clones had some software hiccups.
Gip On Wed, 2009-09-09 at 09:31 +0300, Kyle Spencer wrote: > Hey all, > > Standard USB dongles seem to be a bit crap, so at one of our sites we > swapped the MTN data sim-card out of that and put it into the white > Ericsson FCT box MTN gives out for use as a GPRS modem for an > accompanying black phone hand-set which plugs into it. > > The standard USB dongle would randomly disappear under Linux, and so > creating an auto-re-dialer system was difficult as ttyACM0 would > completely disappear, however the white Ericsson box, when plugged into > the same system via USB, works like a charm. > > I want to buy like 10 of these white Ericsson boxes, but MTN will not > sell them to me for less than 500,000 without a phone contract to go > along with them -- in which case they would be 215,000. > > Any idea where I can get 5 or 10 of these things around for a reasonable > price? I unfortunately don't have the model number on hand. > > Thanks > -Kyle > _______________________________________________ LUG mailing list [email protected] http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug %LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any way. ---------------------------------------
