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Re: sprint pcs and BAM wireless web access

At 5:40 PM -0500 on 2/4/00,  wrote:

>> 	I'm assuming this phone works similarly to the Qualcomm 860 (which
>> I have via BAM).  If that is the case, these phones speak the Hayes AT
>> command set via the serial cable. =20
>> 	I don't know how you'd hook it up without access to a serial port
>> and the serial cable or without the cell modem ...
>>
>> 	I'm using my qualcomm both on my palm pilot and under linux on my
>> laptop.  These phones will *NOT* be able to use their data capabilities if
>> they cannot get a digital signal.

I have done this with my 860, and my Mac.

I had to build a CCL file (okay, hack a non-working one back to life...) to
do it, but, as Chuck Yeager once said, it *can* be done.

Since my calling plan is digital/analog and fixed-rate nationwide, I had to
use the *other* NAM on the phone, with its *own* account, with digital-only
service, which only works inside BAM's digital footprint, meaning the East
Coast. -Ish.

After getting that, I can take my Palm Pilot's 9pin PC serial to 9pin Mac
serial cable adapter, slap it on the proprietary cable that goes into the,
um, posterior, of the 860, fire up the appropriate CCL in my modem control
panel, swap NAMs on the 860 (menu-8-2-next), dial my ISP, wait 22 seconds,
and, heh, bingo. A whopping 14.4kbps.

They say it's going faster, though. Some day. Soon.

So, let me know if you want it, and I'll send you the Mac CCL.

Now, all that said, does anyone here with a mac.clue want to take on the
interesting prospect of doing what the Windows client software does
already? That is, get in and edit the buddy lists, etc?

Actually, what I *really* want to do with said mac.clue is something more
insidious than that. Even more insidious than even embedding all the
NAM-shuffling in the CCL, or something, where it belongs.

Nope. I'm much more interested in the fact that my trusty little 860, in
digital-NAM web-browser mode, has it's *own* IP address, and that, maybe,
it can be driven like a *router* somehow, from my Mac, thus obviating my
need to *dial* my ISP, pretending to be a modem as it were, or any other
such shenanigans...

Anyone here have any thoughts on *that* little bit of presti-CDigiMA-zation?

Cheers,
RAH
(who's still waiting for them to go to 56kb CDMA, like they've been
promising to do all along...)
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