<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <title></title> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Dave Hall wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:1199886470.5414.91.camel@localhost.localdomain" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">On Wed, 2008-01-09 at 01:13 +1100, Mark M Lambert wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Hi folks, I have a friend that wants to dump Vista and try Ubuntu on her laptop. She uses a Virgin Mobile Broadband USB modem (on the 3G network) and I can't find any easy ways of getting it to work in Linux. Has anyone on this list had any success with a similar device? </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> I have PCMCIA and USB 3G modems working with my ubuntu laptop, along with my phone :) What is the model information on the under side of the modem. Knowing this will help me point you in the right direction. Cheers Dave </pre> </blockquote> I dont have a 3G one going but i have an iBurst USB modem working with 7.04.  No luck with 7.10 though. But then again i used Automatix on the laptop and the upgrade was a real huge mess. I may fix it at some point.<br> The iBurst modem had a sourceforge project going so a good chance the 3g one may as well.<br> </body> </html>