On 30/11/2009 Simon Lea wrote: > if you are talking about a dongle type of BB then the Vodafone 3G > don't work with Linux
while this may be true of an individual device there are many different models and a few different makes of hardware all being branded by the mobile companies - some of which even look identical - so we need to be a bit specific. One solution that may appeal is the Huawei E5830 "mi fi" device sold by Three for £50 on PAYG which includes a wifi router so from a device about the size of a mobile phone you get wireless mobile broadband, as it were. this makes it operating system agnostic. I set a customer up in Water Newton with this as their ADSL did not connect due to line length - the Three service tested at 1400 - 2300 kbits/s download and 800 - 1100 kbits/s upload so I guess they are on a lightly loaded cell. The above is handy as you can velcro it to a window frame etc for best reception. I have also tested a Huawei Three dongle from Staples in Peterborough with Xubuntu 9.04 and that worked once I had run the utility that flips it out of CD mode into modem mode and presents it as a Huawei 220 data card. http://blog.lynxworks.eu/20090830/huawei-e1550-on-ubuntu https://wiki.ubuntu.com/NetworkManager/Hardware/3G may be helpful as a list of devices out there. Phil _______________________________________________ Peterboro mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/peterboro
