RE: 3g command line

[pharscape gmail com]

Hi Lennert,
Not the place to promote my site this is a bit OT. pm me for a solution or trawl my site for howtos ...  comgt tool works but it is also easy with chat scripts. 
Cheers Paul
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Subject: Re: 3g command line
From: Lennert Jansen <lennert twixel be>
Date: 03/12/2010 09:32

On 12/02/2010 01:43 PM, Paul Hardwick wrote:
>
>
> On 2 December 2010 10:32, Lennert Jansen <lennert twixel be 
> <mailto:lennert twixel be>> wrote:
>
>     Hi there,
>
>     As I'm completely new & surprised by network manager, my option
>     GMT 382E umts card got working instantly, 3g with Proximus in Belgium.
>     However, I'd like to use these kind of card with ubuntu server
>     install, and would like to know the commands to get this working
>     from the command-line.
>
>     Any tips are welcome, seems I can't figure this out...
>
>
>     Lennert.
>
>
> Hi Lennert,
>
> If you want a minimal install you need something like the 
> hso_connect.sh script which is available in the HSO driver packages 
> from Option. You can locate the latest script here: 
> http://www.pharscape.org/forum/index.php/topic,821.0.html
>
> Cheers,
> Paul
>
> -- 
> www.pharscape.org <http://www.pharscape.org>
>

Thanks,
the connect.sh script got me a working connection. However, is there a 
possibility to read out the 3g-reception status etc?

Right now I'm trying to keep the connection up with cron. Seems this is 
not a great way to do it, right?

L.