Wi-Fi availability

[Dale]

2009/11/5 Swamp Rat <j.brady at iinet.net.au>:
> I visited Telstra today to but a Wi-Fi broadband modem (the only
> service that will work in country towns) and was told they do not
> support Ubuntu or any other flavour of Linux. I don't want to spend
> $175 on a modem that doesn't work. I have an Asus Eee 901 and have
> just converted it to Ubuntu UNR. Everything works fine including Skype
> with webcam/audio. I desperately need comms. Does anyone know if a Wi-
> Fi will work with Ubuntu/UNR and how to get it going?
>
> Grateful for any assistance. ps -I have low end knowledge of Unix/
> Ubuntu so pleeez make it simple.
>

I have both Huawei E1762 and E160E 3G wireless dongles from
Internode[1] and they work great under Linux and are very easy to
setup and use with Network Manager. I have also used the E169 under
linux too and it works great to. I have the dongle cause I am moving
very soon to the country, and at the new place the dongles work good
up there to concidering the 3G tower is the next town is over from the
new place.

Regards
Dale

[1] http://www.internode.on.net/residential/broadband/3g_wireless/nodemobile_data/
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