E160 wireless internet modem with 3

[Christopher Lees]

On Sun, 2010-02-07 at 12:00 +0000, Daniel wrote:
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> Has any body been able to use the E160 wireless modem with 3 ? (the
> internet company named three)  I would appreciate very much knowing
> about your experience.  It is supposed to work as soon as you plug it,
> but I couldn?t.

This doesn't happen anymore, because some computers started to ship with
mobile broadband modems that the owners didn't want to set up. They were
being bothered on every login by the wizard.

If you're using Ubuntu 8.04 then you're pretty much out of luck - it's
possible to get it to work, but it involves ridiculous hackery that I
never could do. Its Network Manager is too old.

The E160 is the classic Linux-compatible modem, for 8.10 and above.
Right-click on the Network Manager applet and go to Edit Connections. Go
to the Mobile Broadband tab and click Add. The wizard will take you
through choosing your country and provider. At the end of it, you'll be
able to connect by left-clicking the Network Manager applet and choosing
"Three".

Ubuntu 9.10 has partially-broken mobile broadband support; it sometimes
won't connect. It's a real PITA; disconnecting and then reconnecting
will sometimes solve the problem, otherwise you might need to unplug the
modem and plug it back in again. Lucid fixed the problem about 10 days
ago but it hasn't been backported to Karmic; fortunately Lucid is pretty
dependable already so I use it on my netbook.

Chris.