It just works. I am getting about 2100 kbit/s down and 350 kbit/s up. Latency to TekSavvy in Toronto is 140ms (which is high).
I have Rogers Mobile High Speed usb device from work. It is a Novatel Wireless MC950D HSUPA Modem. From my research I expected I would have to do all sorts of trickery to get it to work. There is only one minor trick. Otherwise the device was recongnized by the gnome network manager applet (nm-applet). I was prompted to choose my country and provider from a list. Then the device was ready to work. The minor trick is to switch the mode of the device. When plugged in the device apears as a cdrom (to hold the windows drivers). Eject the virtual cdrom (via software) and the device reloads as usb serial device. I did not activate the device. I am guessing that the IT guys did that for me (it is a corporate account). What I have read states that the device must be initially activated on windows or macos. This device should work for other distros that use "network manager" not just Ubuntu. You should also be able to configure this device without network manager. The connection is ppp over the /dev/ttyUSB device. From what I have read a lot of the old howtos use a brute force method to configure these devices. I suggest a quick look at the network manager sources first to see what strings it sends to start the pppd connection. reply-to set to OCLUG General list. -- sg _______________________________________________ Linux mailing list Linux@lists.oclug.on.ca http://oclug.on.ca/mailman/listinfo/linux
