[H-GEN] Questions about the Wireless Broadband Modems and linux compatibility.

[Nikolai Lusan]

On Sun, 2007-12-16 at 20:12 +1100, Edwin Groothuis wrote:
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> On Sun, Dec 16, 2007 at 06:10:14PM +1000, Neville C. Dempsey wrote:
> > In short: Which providers modem dongle/card works with Linux?
> 
> Not Linux, but I got the Huawei E220 G3 USB modem working with
> FreeBSD this weekend. 

We played with one of those at my last employer 6 months ago, I didn't
like it, it was a pain in the butt to get going.

With key information dragged from
http://thinkleft.com/3_MobileBroadband_APN_and_PPP I got a Merlin XU870
(PCExpress card with an adapter for CardBus) from Three working
today ... Now I have a tablet with mobile net access for work :)

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Nikolai Lusan <nikolai at lusan.id.au>