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Re: smstools and CDMA


From: "Andrey Gordon" <andrey.gordon () gmail com>
Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2008 15:43:08 -0500

Douglas,

I have a RHEL server that I connected MultiTech CDMA modem (MTCBA-C-U-N3)
and running smstools3 with it. Some hackery was needed and it still does not
work ideally. What I mean by that, i had to modify the source code of
smstools3 to work around GSM SMS message format.
In the end it works except one thing: I believe, because of the way smstools
addresses memory where the message to be sent is stored, it never releases
that memory back. So as a result, it always retains the last message in
memory and when a new one needs to be send and if it's shorted then then
previous one, I see the new message and leftovers of the previous one at the
end.

Let me know if you want some documents that I wrote up when I was messing
with it.

Andrey Gordon [andrey.gordon () gmail com]

On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 2:25 PM, Douglas K. Rand <rand () meridian-enviro com>
wrote:

From the GMS point of view I live and work in the boondocks: Grand
Forks, North Dakota. (OK, so there is a decent argument that the
entire US is GSM boondocks.)

Anyway, I'm trying to figure out a way of sending and receiving text
messages using a tool like smstools and a CDMA modem.

I've found the MultiTech CDMA modem (MTCBA-C-N3-NAM) but I can't seem
to find any success stories to go along with it.

I was wondering if anybody has had any luck with either this modem and
smstools3 in particular, or with sending/receiving text messages with
a CDMA modem.




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