Tim Bayfield wrote:
Greetings SLUG,
Can anyone advise if there is a USB Wireless Broadband device from any
of the ISPs which will work with a PC based Net Book running Linux?
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Telstra Series 7.
Model: MF636
You need to turn off the device's functionality as a thumb drive and not
as a modem.
From here (and other places):
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1005910
*You can try the following steps:
1. on WinVista through control panel ADD the extra init command
*AT+ZCDRUN=8*
2. try to connect once with the providers s/w (WinVista)
3. remove the above command through control panel (WinVista)
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Sending this command to the device is essential to un-paperweight it:
**AT+ZCDRUN=8*
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Then you have to make sure that usb_serial is loaded for the device.
http://www.draisberghof.de/usb_modeswitch/
Then just plug it in (to Ubuntu) and it gets found and enter your pin
and you're off.
We use these for all our staff's laptops running ubuntu.
Big Note: DO THIS:::: **AT+ZCDRUN=8 first (and only once).
Sounds a pain but it should only be done once.
Cheers
P
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