Hi, Which device are you using.
I am using a maxon bp3-usb (id is 16d8:6280) it did work like that with usb serial BUT the latently was still pretty sky high for me. I ended up recompiling the sierra module to include the usb ids added into it. ps I am using kppp to connect as a normal user. Jeff Peter Rundle wrote: > Sluggers, > > I've got a Telstra Next G card working under Linux Mint 4.0 (ubuntu > gutsy) and I'm looking to tidy up (read de-geekafy) the steps needed > to connect it. > > Firstly I need to load the usbserial.ko module which I do with; > > insmod > /lib/modules/2.6.22-14-generic/kernel/drivers/usb/serial/usbserial.ko > vendor=0x19d2 product=0x0001 > > Where should this go under Ubuntu? I found /etc/modprobe.d but my > first attempt to create a nextG file in there didn't work and I'm > still loading the module by hand. > > Secondly, to connect I use Kppp to "dial" the connection. This works > fine except that in order to set the default route to the PPP0 > interface I need to be "root". Thus I fire up kppp using sudo in a > terminal window. This prompts for my password and works ok but I'm > wanting to give this laptop to an ex-windows user who is used to > connecting to Next G without having to enter their password in a > terminal window. Ideas? > > Thanks > > > > P. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
