re modem usb stick prepaid broadband

[Art Alexion]

On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 10:49 AM, Billie Walsh <bilwalsh at swbell.net> wrote:
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> In our experience  [ Good ol' USofA and ATT, Sprint, et.al. ] the usb
> stick devices suck for connectivity. The only ones we've had any luck
> with are either the PCMCIA or PCExpress ones. You can buy adapter cards
> to use them in desktop machines, we did. We even have a USB adapter to
> use our PCExpress with our Eeepc's. [ no PCMCIA or PCExpress slots ]

I have had good luck with the Verizon USB stick and the eee, using
ubuntu-eee 8.04 and gnome-ppp and pppd.

Your mileage may vary.


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