Sunday, September 04, 2005
Surfing the net with my new K750i on CellC
(GW - Geek warning) The next post might contain technical references to extreme IT mambo jumbo, and other complex terminology. Read the post at own risk!
I got my SonyEricsson K750i last week. I am very much impressed with the phone. It has loads of features. I got it on a CellC CasualChat anytime contract. Speaking of which, I am a lot less impressed with the service of CellC.
I wanted to get GPRS enabled, so I registered on the website. Clicked the option to enable GPRS, they immediately sent me an SMS to notify me that the next message will automatically configure my phone. It has now been a week, I have not received anything to date. In the mean time I phoned the customer support and they we not very useful either, they did tell me the server was down and their IT people were working on the problem... Yeah right! I started googling around and eventually found these GPRS Settings
APN: internet
Username: Cellcis
Password: Cellcis
The connection from my phone works!
So much for their support!
The next step would be to get my internet connection working via GPRS using the the phone as a GPRS modem over USB. I did find these references for doing just that so I am busy investigating.
GPRS EasyConnect
Gentoo Phone sync howto
Gentoo Bluetooth howto
Article with sample scripts
First I had to get the module compiled in my Linux kernel...The standard USB modem driver works.
modprobe cdc_acm
the device showed up as
/dev/ttyACM0
Next I had to install wvdial (emerge -u wvdial did the trick)
I used some sample scripts found at the above URLs and tweaked them a bit. I managed to catch the first wave... It simply worked. (Technically I had to tweak /etc/resolv.conf too...)
No more t3l$cum dailups in peak times! I can now chat peak times without being charged an arm and a leg. Doh! There is one thing I am forgetting,I don't chat on IRC! From time to time I do log onto IM, and it would be nice to check my mail whenever I want to.
I am very tempted to get rid of my trusty and ex$pensive ISDN line. R 250/month (R 200 line rental and R50 for R7-call...(more like R10 call) in off peak). It will go a long way to buying bandwidth... 125MB! of it, and even more when I start getting a bulk bundle. That way I can stop supporting our (dis)trusty telecom$ monopoly.
My poor gentoo will be a bit behind, but I can always take my laptop to work and use their connection to update my gentoo...
I got my SonyEricsson K750i last week. I am very much impressed with the phone. It has loads of features. I got it on a CellC CasualChat anytime contract. Speaking of which, I am a lot less impressed with the service of CellC. I wanted to get GPRS enabled, so I registered on the website. Clicked the option to enable GPRS, they immediately sent me an SMS to notify me that the next message will automatically configure my phone. It has now been a week, I have not received anything to date. In the mean time I phoned the customer support and they we not very useful either, they did tell me the server was down and their IT people were working on the problem... Yeah right! I started googling around and eventually found these GPRS Settings
APN: internet
Username: Cellcis
Password: Cellcis
The connection from my phone works!
So much for their support!
The next step would be to get my internet connection working via GPRS using the the phone as a GPRS modem over USB. I did find these references for doing just that so I am busy investigating.
GPRS EasyConnect
Gentoo Phone sync howto
Gentoo Bluetooth howto
Article with sample scripts
First I had to get the module compiled in my Linux kernel...The standard USB modem driver works.
modprobe cdc_acm
the device showed up as
/dev/ttyACM0
Next I had to install wvdial (emerge -u wvdial did the trick)
I used some sample scripts found at the above URLs and tweaked them a bit. I managed to catch the first wave... It simply worked. (Technically I had to tweak /etc/resolv.conf too...)
No more t3l$cum dailups in peak times! I can now chat peak times without being charged an arm and a leg. Doh! There is one thing I am forgetting,I don't chat on IRC! From time to time I do log onto IM, and it would be nice to check my mail whenever I want to.
I am very tempted to get rid of my trusty and ex$pensive ISDN line. R 250/month (R 200 line rental and R50 for R7-call...(more like R10 call) in off peak). It will go a long way to buying bandwidth... 125MB! of it, and even more when I start getting a bulk bundle. That way I can stop supporting our (dis)trusty telecom$ monopoly.
My poor gentoo will be a bit behind, but I can always take my laptop to work and use their connection to update my gentoo...
# posted @ Sunday, September 04, 2005 12:15 PM 
