GPRS for MacOS 9, 8, 7 instructions
Introduction
What is GPRS?
Connection
Setup for MacOS X
Specification of the modem-file
Once we know what GPRS is about anyway, we can configure our Mac. The usefull part of this folder is the file "GPRS generic" which should be copied to the Systemfolder. Drag this file to the Closed SystemFolder and MacOS will offer to put it in the right place. (System Folder:Extensions:Modem Scripts).
Now open the control-panel "Modem" and select the GPRS generic modem. Choose the way the GPRS-phone is connected to your Mac and save.
Now that we have a modem ready, we will use RemoteAccess to connect to the desired AccessPoint. Since this is just a fancy name for what is actually the number we are dialing, we just type it in that box. If a username-password is needed, just supply them and then hit Connect.
Tuning for MacOS 9, 8, 7
It should already be working but, if it doesn't work perfect or at all :-( , we might fix it very easily.
For one, some GPRS-phones use hardware handshake and some use software handshake. As shown in the Modem-figure, we can choose between the two abusing the dialing-method. With Tone, we use hardware-handshake, with Pulse, we use software handshake. Just give it a try, most phones work either way.
Something else is the mechanism I used to make the modem-script work for almost any modem. It could be that it doesn't work for your particular phone (I didn't see any yet ;-). You could mail me with details of the particular model of phone and I might then fix something or you look into it yourself. For that purpose I have put two type-convertors to switch between a modem-file and a Simpletext file. The Specification of the modem-file will help you understand what to do.
Introduction
What is GPRS?
Connection
Setup for MacOS X
Specification of the modem-file