Rob, I am using the Huawei E220 with Vodafone on Intrepid 8.10
The laptop is an EI systems 13 inch screen. The broadband worked straight away. Douglas On Fri, 2008-12-19 at 10:35 +0000, Tony Arnold wrote: > Rob, > > Rob Beard wrote: > > > Now I was wondering if it's just a case of plugging the modem in and > > changing the profile settings, or do the modems need some sort of > > firmware update to unlock them? > > I tried a friends 3G USB modem from 3 recently. I pluged it in to my > laptop running Intrepid, and a window popped up saying a new mobile > broadband device had been discovered. It hen took me through a wizard > that just asked me who was providing the service and that was it, it > just worked! I could then use Network Manager to select the 3G > connection and all was good. I was very impressed. > > Regards, > Tony. > -- > Tony Arnold, Tel: +44 (0) 161 275 6093 > Head of IT Security, Fax: +44 (0) 870 136 1004 > University of Manchester, Mob: +44 (0) 773 330 0039 > Manchester M13 9PL. Email: tony.arn...@manchester.ac.uk >
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