Re: question re mobile internet connection

2010-04-19 Thread richardmalter
Hey everyone, Thanks for all the replies and support. Its a mobile internet connection via USB next G bigpond 7.2. >From what I read from all your suggestions, I think it is probably best I wait a week till 10.04 stable is released and I upgrade, then I try again, and possibly use wvdial if netwo

Re: question re mobile internet connection

2010-04-18 Thread Jared Norris
Good evening, All this talk of wireless broadband devices has made me realise this is a big thing that affects a lot of people (I am also considering a wireless option myself). As a result I have set up a wiki on the Ubuntu-AU wiki and can be found at: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AustralianTeam/Wirel

Re: question re mobile internet connection

2010-04-18 Thread Paul Schulz
Hi Richard, I had issues with a USB Modem from 3 that has two USB devices in it.. a memory device and the modem. They are designed for use with Windows hosts where there are drivers on the memory device, which then 'switch' the device to the USB modem once loaded. I wish there was a list of mode

Re: question re mobile internet connection

2010-04-18 Thread Rob Dawson
Not my experience. I've used mobile broadband (Soul on the Optus network using a Huawei E220 usb modem) extensively in Jaunty and Karmic (installed on 2 different laptops - Asus and HP) and it's never let me down. The only issue I had initially was getting the settings correct (number and APN) an

Re: question re mobile internet connection

2010-04-18 Thread Barry Williams
what sort of card is it I use a old USB3-8521 in 10.04 however network manager does not recognise it so I use wvdial from cli On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 8:06 PM, wrote: > Hey folks, warm hello, > > Just wondering if anyone has experience connecting to a mobile Telstra > broadband account - with a p

Re: question re mobile internet connection

2010-04-17 Thread Christopher Lees
On Sun, 2010-04-18 at 02:03 +0100, richardmalter wrote: > Hey folks, warm hello, > > Just wondering if anyone has experience connecting to a mobile Telstra > broadband account - with a plug-in USB chip. Ubuntu is recognizing the > chip but doesn't connect, anyone have any ideas? I am in VIC. >

Re: question re mobile internet connection

2010-04-17 Thread Simon Ives
Hi Richard. I've got a new Telstra Turbo Wireless Next G Broadband USB modem that I use for work and it 'just works' on my Ubuntu 10.04 installation. The details on the back of the device read - Sierra Wireless USB, Qualcomm 3G, NI246. Last year I was having a similar issue with the previous ver

question re mobile internet connection

2010-04-17 Thread richardmalter
Hey folks, warm hello, Just wondering if anyone has experience connecting to a mobile Telstra broadband account - with a plug-in USB chip. Ubuntu is recognizing the chip but doesn't connect, anyone have any ideas? I am in VIC. Thank you. Richard -- Best regards, Richard Malter --