I hope someone else on the list can help you. It's a ridiculously long shot, but I suppose if you went ahead and mounted the USB stick as a drive --- it's undoubtedly VFAT or some such --- you'd see the windows and mac support software. And it's a disturbingly long shot but still conceivable that the Windows software might work under Wine. maybe with the ndis shim?
But I really hope someone else can get you a serious answer. I do appreciate the warning, though: from now on I'll assume USB mobile broadband dongles are useless, by default. I'd already concluded that I'm not gonna upgrade my phone (nexus one), or buy any tablet but wifi-only, and switch to a gizmo I think is called mifi, or portable hotspot, for my next generation mobile data. Especially since I've heard that T-Mobile USA hasn't been able to get ipv6 working over their 3g with any model android (needs baseband chip firmware support which they haven't squeezed out of their Android manufacturers -- Tmo ipv6) over 3g is Nokia only). But Verizon LTE 4g is smokin' fast and their ipv6 does work. -Bennett On May 6, 2011 3:47 PM, "Gary Nye" <[email protected]> wrote: > > cheers for reply, > I have a HTC HD2 mobile, I've put Android on it, that uses RNDIS to use as an USB modem and works as the same as an ethernet card in linux, > > When I connect my phone to USB, it starts as a USB storage device, so does this T-Mobile stick, on my phone go through menus and turn on internet sharing, > this stick has that option in Windows with the software that comes with it... > > the one I have is the second one down > https://www.t-mobile.co.uk/shop/mobile-broadband/usb-stick/ > > > > > Date: Fri, 6 May 2011 13:00:43 -0400 > Subject: Re: T-Mobile Mobile Broadband USB stick 615 (Huawei e173) > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > > > I don't know about that gizmo, but more years ago than I like to remember my first cellphone was with Sprint, and when I upgraded to a PCS phone with data, I bought a USB cable for it. And it showed up as a working serial port under Linux. As I recall a simple ATD out the port readied it for PPP. Might not be so simple with a (vastly faster) broadband, but I wouldn't be surprised if it just looked like an ethernet dongle. If you've got a friendly T-mo store nearby, might ask if they have one you can try. > -Bennett > On May 6, 2011 12:31 PM, "Gary Nye" <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hi guys, >> Has anyone used a USB Mobile Broadband device with LFS? >> A quick search with google comes up with Mint and Ubuntu and using usb-modeswitch or something, >> and one result that went to T-Mobile said only laptops and sticks brought as a bundle from Carphonewharehouse >> are supported. >> >> If someone has been able to get this working, any chance of a guide/pointing in the right direction.. >> >> ps at the moment i am running a 6.3 I think on a sony vaio laptop, and about to install the latest 6.8 when i get around to it, >> if i have to i`ll use windows to download everything then boot into lfs to start 6.8 install >> >> thanks for any replies >> >> > > -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-chat FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
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