6630 and GPRS easy connect woes

2005 March 5 at 10:23 » Tagged as :

Configuring PPPD is a pain. The last few times I had to set up a GPRS connection on linux, GPRS easy connect came in very handy because it can write the chat scripts for you. Unfortunately the Nokia 6630 is not one of the phones listed in it's HCL. I still decided to give it a shot reckoning that modifying a script generated for a similar phone would be a lot less painfull than doing it from scratch.

Installing the new version of easy connect certainly was not easy. One of the requirements; the Tk (800.023) module (whatever that is) was missing and had to download it and install it from cpan. Unfortunately the module installation

wasn't easy either. It choked saying: