Re: Optus wireless broadband
Dave Hall wrote: On Tue, 2008-08-05 at 16:41 +0930, Paul Schulz wrote: Hi Glenn, (Not exactly the answer you're after but..) It worked easily with the EEEPC configuration tool With the 3G USB dongle, should be detected up as a GPRS/UMTS modem. That sounds like you got the E220, which is being phased out by Optus. The E169 which is also offered by 3 requires a couple of udev hacks to get it working or else it shows up as a usb mass storage device with windows and mac drivers on it. Cheers Dave I have an E169 from 3 mobile and didnt require the udev hacks. Mine was seemingly happy to detect as a modem. Im still working out all the settings for 3 so i can hold connection but i can check my signal levels and data usage fine now and havent had time to transfer all the settings over from 'doze. This was mentioned on the list before in relation to bigpong but its how i managed to communicate with my 3 modem. https://forge.betavine.net/projects/vodafonemobilec/ -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
Re: Optus wireless broadband
Hi Glenn, (Not exactly the answer you're after but..) It worked easily with the EEEPC configuration tool With the 3G USB dongle, should be detected up as a GPRS/UMTS modem. Use: Username: web Password: web You could probably even waltz into a Optus store plug in a demo unit and get connected within 30 seconds. Cheers, Paul On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 10:14 AM, glenn murray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The approaching closure of telstra's ISDN home network will cause problems for those of us in regional Australia who have no access to adsl and are unwilling to submit to the vagaries and cost of satellite. Has anyone successfully used Optus Wireless Broadband with Ubuntu? If so, what particular Optus modem is compatible? thanks glenn -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
Re: Optus wireless broadband
On Tue, 2008-08-05 at 16:41 +0930, Paul Schulz wrote: Hi Glenn, (Not exactly the answer you're after but..) It worked easily with the EEEPC configuration tool With the 3G USB dongle, should be detected up as a GPRS/UMTS modem. That sounds like you got the E220, which is being phased out by Optus. The E169 which is also offered by 3 requires a couple of udev hacks to get it working or else it shows up as a usb mass storage device with windows and mac drivers on it. Cheers Dave -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
Optus wireless broadband
The approaching closure of telstra's ISDN home network will cause problems for those of us in regional Australia who have no access to adsl and are unwilling to submit to the vagaries and cost of satellite. Has anyone successfully used Optus Wireless Broadband with Ubuntu? If so, what particular Optus modem is compatible? thanks glenn -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
Re: Optus wireless broadband
On Tue, 2008-08-05 at 10:44 +1000, glenn murray wrote: The approaching closure of telstra's ISDN home network will cause problems for those of us in regional Australia who have no access to adsl and are unwilling to submit to the vagaries and cost of satellite. Has anyone successfully used Optus Wireless Broadband with Ubuntu? If so, what particular Optus modem is compatible? I haven't, but I may soon be using it. Based on my research they ship the Hauwei E169 (also used by 3), which does work with a couple of udev hacks. Most of the new Optus network outside major centres uses the 900Mhz band, so the E220 will be useless. An added bonus with the E169 is that they can take an external directional antenna if you need a better signal. HTH Cheers Dave -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
Re: Optus Wireless
Dave Hall wrote: On Sat, 2008-06-21 at 18:38 +1000, Jetjoint wrote: Hey guys, First post here. Does anyone use an Optus Wireless Broadband USB Modem on Ubuntu? I am looking at getting one and just wondering how easy it is to set up? Any links to pages that might help? If it is the Huawei E220, I am using a VF branded version and it works great. Avoid the E169 (as shipped by 3 and others?) it needs some hacks to udev to make it work properly. If you want to use the E220 with Network Manager you need to hack a couple of config files, then it works well. Let me know if you need the files. Cheers Dave This week i purchased an E169 from 3 as part of a mobile broadband package. Im yet to get it up and running but a lsusb shows the modem straight away (lists as an E620) i just cant seem to convince Kubuntu to use the thing. Unlike other i havent had the Mass storage device showing so i guess i need to set up some sort of dialer. Im going to look into it tonight but after testing on my XP partition its a real dog to get running under XP with the device changing modes every 5 seconds for a good minute or two before it can actually connect to the internet. I dont think these devices were real well designed but at least now they dont play up under Linux and go straight to modem mode. Any hint on how to use the detected modem to connect to the net will be appreciated for me and im sure others. Im gonna have a hack at it myself anyway and ill post how hard or simple it was to get working for others using the list. Thanks Leslie Gossner -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
