>> Does anyone have experience with this stuff? Do wireless broadband >> modems work in Gentoo? > > I tried a number of 3G modems for an article I wrote last year and all > of them worked. There were only two brands of modem supplied by the > various telcos, Huawei and Novatel and they are very similar in > operation. > > Vodafone have a software package for these modems, whichever telco you > use, but it is tricky to get working with a shedload of dependencies. If > is only needed if you want to do stuff like send SMS messages from the > computer. For standard Internet usage, you only need the kernel modules > and your favourite PPP software. > > > -- > Neil Bothwick
Thanks Neil, I'd like to get as close as possible to being ready to plug-and-play with one of those modems. Do you remember the names of the kernel modules? I've never used PPP software before. Can you recommend a package? - Grant
