Novatel G100?

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Anonymous
Posted on Monday, April 07, 2003 - 08:36 pm:   

Does NowSMS support a Novatel G100? How about for MMS?
Bryce Norwood - NowSMS Support (Bryce)
Posted on Tuesday, April 08, 2003 - 04:10 am:   

Are you trying the Novatel G100 but experiencing a problem?

I can recall one recent technical support incident with someone trying to use a Novatel G100 with NowSMS. They encountered an error where the modem would successfully test for NowSMS use, but it would fail during regular operation.

They were getting the error "Error: Error initializing SMSC Interface 'Novatel Wireless Merlin GPRS Modem'. Interface is not available." in the log file, and no messages were being sent out.

We had them manually edit the SMSGW.INI file, and under the [SMSGW] section header, add the configuration setting OldModemHandler=Yes.

This setting reverts to a modem handler that is compatible with older versions of the NowSMS software. Apparently some tricks that NowSMS v4.11 uses to speed up its modem handling are not compatible with the Novatel G100. We expect to have the new handler fixed so that it works with the G100 without this configuration setting in the next release of NowSMS.

MMS should be fine with the G100, at least no special considerations specific to that modem.

-bn