Re: [2008.x] GPRS Instructions on the Wiki

2008-10-22 Thread nickd
Joel Newkirk wrote: > What irritates me the most is that I have unlimited > data, but T-Mobile still charges me $0.15 per text message since I don't > pay the $5 or whatever per month for a messaging bundle. Most > irrititatingly, though, if the message has an image or sound file attached, > the m

Re: [2008.x] GPRS Instructions on the Wiki

2008-10-22 Thread Paul
> With my old camera phone I actually would write short messages on paper and > send a photo, so it'd be free. (I'm just perverse that way) > WOOOHAHAHAHAHAAA!!! :-) -- Saying nothing... sometimes says the most. -Emily Dickinson http://www.nlpagan.net Running on Mandriva Linux 2008 and

Re: [2008.x] GPRS Instructions on the Wiki

2008-10-22 Thread Joel Newkirk
On Wed, 22 Oct 2008 16:47:52 +0100, Alastair Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote: >> On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 11:12:12AM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: >>> When I looked at the prices for GPRS service from my provider (around >>> 3¢/kB), I was flabbergasted, and now I wo

Re: [2008.x] GPRS Instructions on the Wiki

2008-10-22 Thread Joel Newkirk
On Wed, 22 Oct 2008 11:12:12 -0400, Stefan Monnier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When I looked at the prices for GPRS service from my provider (around > 3¢/kB), I was flabbergasted, and now I wonder: what do people do > with GPRS? Do they have better deals from their carrier, or do they use > their

Re: [2008.x] GPRS Instructions on the Wiki

2008-10-22 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 04:47:52PM +0100, Alastair Johnson wrote: > Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 11:12:12AM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: > >> When I looked at the prices for GPRS service from my provider (around > >> 3¢/kB), I was flabbergasted, and now I wonder: what

Re: [2008.x] GPRS Instructions on the Wiki

2008-10-22 Thread Stefan Monnier
> Still people seem quite happy to pay for text messages. Work out the > cost per kB on those ;-) That's what I meant by "what tools do they use". I guess you can try and use some kind of POP setup so you can download your emails (with extra help to skip attachments or large emails): that could p

Re: [2008.x] GPRS Instructions on the Wiki

2008-10-22 Thread Tom Yates
On Wed, 22 Oct 2008, Alastair Johnson wrote: GPRS and 3G data rates in the UK vary hugely between supplier and call plan. On the prepay SIM I'm testing with 1 uk pound gets me 'unlimited' use for a day, though they're likely to suggest I change if I exceed 250MB, and I'm not supposed to use Vo

Re: [2008.x] GPRS Instructions on the Wiki

2008-10-22 Thread Alastair Johnson
Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote: > On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 11:12:12AM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: >> When I looked at the prices for GPRS service from my provider (around >> 3¢/kB), I was flabbergasted, and now I wonder: what do people do >> with GPRS? Do they have better deals from their carrier,

Re: [2008.x] GPRS Instructions on the Wiki

2008-10-22 Thread Benedikt Schindler
here in germany it isn't so expensiv. you can have 200MB for 10€ or a flat rate for 25€ Rui Miguel Silva Seabra schrieb: > On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 11:12:12AM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: > >> When I looked at the prices for GPRS service from my provider (around >> 3¢/kB), I was flabbergasted,

Re: [2008.x] GPRS Instructions on the Wiki

2008-10-22 Thread arne anka
> When I looked at the prices for GPRS service from my provider (around > 3¢/kB), I was flabbergasted, well, i pay 24¢/mb. simyo, germany. with my treo 650 i mostly used it to look for the next available train, when german railways spoiled my plans again ... and an occasional call to google ma

Re: [2008.x] GPRS Instructions on the Wiki

2008-10-22 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 11:12:12AM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: > When I looked at the prices for GPRS service from my provider (around > 3¢/kB), I was flabbergasted, and now I wonder: what do people do > with GPRS? Do they have better deals from their carrier, or do they use > their bandwidth *ve

Re: [2008.x] GPRS Instructions on the Wiki

2008-10-22 Thread Stefan Monnier
When I looked at the prices for GPRS service from my provider (around 3¢/kB), I was flabbergasted, and now I wonder: what do people do with GPRS? Do they have better deals from their carrier, or do they use their bandwidth *very* sparingly? If so, what tools do they use? Stefan __

Re: [2008.x] GPRS Instructions on the Wiki

2008-10-21 Thread Joel Newkirk
On Tue, 21 Oct 2008 11:14:05 +0100, Arigead <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Wiki Instructions: > http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/GPRS#Option_1:_With_GSM_multiplexing_and_with_a_GUI > > Finally got this GPRS sort of working :-) > > I put together a shell script of the steps I've taken to get this far.

Re: [2008.x] GPRS Instructions on the Wiki

2008-10-21 Thread Arigead
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Joel Newkirk wrote: > On Tue, 14 Oct 2008 14:54:45 +0100, Arigead <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> Don't want to hijack the thread this stems from "Re: [2008.9] Wifi very >> unreliable" but I mentioned there that external links from a wiki might >> not

Re: [2008.x] GPRS Instructions on the Wiki

2008-10-15 Thread Arigead
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sarton O'Brien wrote: > On Wednesday 15 October 2008 00:54:45 Arigead wrote: >> Configuring libdbus-glib-1-2 >> Collected errors: >> * Package libgobject-2.0-0 wants to install file >> /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0 >> But that file is already provi

Re: [2008.x] GPRS Instructions on the Wiki

2008-10-15 Thread Arigead
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Benedikt Schindler wrote: > Arigead schrieb: >> [...] >> From a clean flash of a 2008 Daily from last week: >> >> Om2008.8-gta02-20080903.uImage.bin >> Om2008.8-gta02-20081007.rootfs.jffs2 >> >> And executing the commands >> >> echo "nameserver 208.67

Re: [2008.x] GPRS Instructions on the Wiki

2008-10-14 Thread Joel Newkirk
On Tue, 14 Oct 2008 14:54:45 +0100, Arigead <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Don't want to hijack the thread this stems from "Re: [2008.9] Wifi very > unreliable" but I mentioned there that external links from a wiki might > not be the best idea and that I was having problems with external GPRS > instr

Re: [2008.x] GPRS Instructions on the Wiki

2008-10-14 Thread Sarton O'Brien
On Wednesday 15 October 2008 00:54:45 Arigead wrote: > Configuring libdbus-glib-1-2 > Collected errors: >  * Package libgobject-2.0-0 wants to install file > /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0 >     But that file is already provided by package  * libglib-2.0-0 > > Maybe the above is not a problem but if

Re: [2008.x] GPRS Instructions on the Wiki

2008-10-14 Thread Benedikt Schindler
Arigead schrieb: > [...] > From a clean flash of a 2008 Daily from last week: > > Om2008.8-gta02-20080903.uImage.bin > Om2008.8-gta02-20081007.rootfs.jffs2 > > And executing the commands > > echo "nameserver 208.67.222.222" > /etc/resolv.conf > echo "nameserver 208.67.220.220" >> /etc/resolv.conf

[2008.x] GPRS Instructions on the Wiki

2008-10-14 Thread Arigead
Don't want to hijack the thread this stems from "Re: [2008.9] Wifi very unreliable" but I mentioned there that external links from a wiki might not be the best idea and that I was having problems with external GPRS instructions linked from the relevant wiki page. Continued at the bottom of this