[H-GEN] Wireless broadband issues.

[Noel Butler]

On Wed, 2011-03-23 at 08:02 +1000, Sandra Mansell wrote:


> On 23/03/2011 7:52 AM, Carl Adams wrote:
> 
> > without doubt this is their intention. Does anyone know if the Linux
> > community is addressing this issue? I doubt that anything is being done
> > in Oz, but there may be action being taken elsewhere, as with Linux in
> > education in the UK.
> 
> I can't speak to whether the Linux community is addressing this, but 
> surely a little bit of research before choosing a wireless broadband ISP 
> would have been in order after you got burnt so badly by Vodafone? You 


This is common sense.
Most ISP's will not support Linux and never will,  because the "scripts"
a CSR works from has to be backed up with some form of real world
knowledge and experience, that means ISP's have to employ competent
CSR's, and therefore pay them justly.
For what you pay your ISP, that will never happen in large ISP's,
smaller ISP's it likely may because they tend to care, even 
Primus, when it first started here back in dialup days would have
someone on staff to help, if I was to call them and ask for support
today, I'd get the "Uhh what's Linux, close that box its not right
program" ;) as they are no longer a small operation.


>  
> Linux. They also give you ALL the settings AND you can check your usage 
> on their website. The modem they sell you is also unlocked so you can 
> take it to any other network any time you like, or switch it for a 
> different sim whenever you want. (My husband recently used our Huawei 
> E1762 in NZ.)
> 


I fail to see whats so hard about it, all you need is the APN, that's
all I've ever used in Slackware with pppd, and with network manager in
Fedora, or Ubuntu. If your flavour of Linux doesn't find the device and
work out of the box, time to get modern.

Mind you, I find wireless hopeless unless in your in a metro area, it
will never replace DSL or cable, the only thing its good for is a
replacement backup dialup to be used when no other alternatives
available.


> I don't know why you expect vendors to support Linux when it is still 
> not accepted as a "mainstream" operating system. There are also many 
> different "flavours" of Linux, are they to support them all? What if 


Supporting all flavours is easy, supply a binary tarball package
(Netwinsite did this with the popular news server DNews) - OMG, yes,
some people will have to learn how to use tar, and maybe even how to run
a shell script to install it without this clicky thing in there hand,
shock horror :P




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