Once upon a time, Bill Davidsen <davidsen@xxxxxxx> said: > Any thoughts on the optimal solution? It would be useful to be able to send > a standard SMS like a human text, rather than one of those eMail to SMS > gateways which send all the headers and such. I have a Multi-Tech GSM modem attached via USB. I use gnokii-smsd, which uses a database (MySQL in my case) to queue inbound and outbound messages. I have a simple perl script that inserts a message into the outbound table, and gnokii-smsd sends it (we use this with Nagios for alerting). We have an AT&T contract at work, so we ordered another line (and phone and SIM) with unlimited text messaging. You have to put the SIM card into a phone to activate it with AT&T (they don't send them out ready to use), and then you just stick the SIM card in the modem. I think with T-Mobile (the other GSM provider in the US), you can get just a SIM (no phone) and it will be ready to use when you get it. I believe that Multi-Tech also has CDMA phones that can be used with either Sprint or Verizon, but I'm not sure exactly how that works (how you get them activated and such). I had to make some changes to the kernel ti_usb_3410_5052 module to load different firmware for the Multi-Tech modem, but it should work out of the box with kernel 2.6.29 and newer (my changes went upstream in that version). -- Chris Adams <cmadams@xxxxxxxxxx> Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
