Well said Harry, my members in the retirement village just want things to work, the terminal would terrify most of them. 狢 have waited until I was confident of back-up for Ubuntu, which we now have, and will be introducing it when LTS version 10.04 arrives.<div> </div><div>Regards,</div><div> </div><div>Tony <div class="gmail_quote">On 30 March 2010 18:42, <a href="mailto:harry@ipunix.com">harry@ipunix.com</a> <<a href="mailto:harry@ipunix.com">harry@ipunix.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">Hi Dale, Thanks for your input, much appreciated; however the point that I am making is that we must think along the lines of someone plugging in a device and it will work, like with searching for a printer. As long as this function is not complete we will not see much laptop/notebook users convert to Linux (Ubuntu). Using the terminal should only be for a Linux expert or a keen user that wants to learn and experiment. Regards, Harry Degenaar <div></div> <hr size="2" width="100%" align="center"> From: "Dale" <<a href="mailto:quail.linux@gmail.com" target="_blank">quail.linux@gmail.com</a>> Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 2010 10:39 AM To: <a href="mailto:harry@ipunix.com" target="_blank">harry@ipunix.com</a> Subject: Re: Linux and Ubuntu on Laptops & Notebooks On 29 March 2010 14:17, <a href="mailto:harry@ipunix.com" target="_blank">harry@ipunix.com</a> wrote: ....... > Currently one item most important to the laptop/notebook user is the use of > a Next "G" wireless broadband modem. Telstra, Virgin and all other providers > that I know off give no support for Linux at all. There is support for > wireless broadband modems in some of the implementations of Linux such as > Ubuntu, however to get a device to actually work is a hit and miss exercise. > > I would like to know on any of you that have experience in getting a Next > "G" wireless broadband modem to work on Ubuntu. > Hi Harry, I have had no problems getting getting 3G to work under Linux with wvdial or pppd. I don't use network-manager (aka network-mangler) as it is just to problematic. Also the WICD[1] network manager has support planned for PPP, PPPoE, and Mobile Broadband for version 2.0 which will be released in the late future. If you not mind using terminal, read on here is basically my pppd dial demand setup on firewall/gateway/router # cat /etc/ppp/peers/internode /dev/ttyUSB1 460800 crtscts modem noauth defaultroute noipdefault noccp nobsdcomp novj user "" password "" connect "/usr/sbin/chat -f /etc/ppp/peers/chat-internode" idle 300 persist demand logfd 6 # cat /etc/ppp/peers/chat-internode ABORT BUSY ABORT ERROR ABORT 'NO CARRIER' REPORT CONNECT TIMEOUT 10 "" "ATZ" OK AT+CGDCONT=1,"ip","internode" OK "ATE1V1&D2&C1S0=0+IFC=2,2" OK "AT+IPR=115200" OK "ATE1" TIMEOUT 60 "" "ATD*99***1#" CONNECT '\d\c' And as root all you need to do is issue the commands for example, pon internode - connects to provider (internets) poff - disconnects for internets (provider) And for a wvdial setup you can refer to this post[1] and there a gui that can be used with wvdial called gnome-ppp. Regards Dale [1] <a href="http://wicd.sourceforge.net/" target="_blank">http://wicd.sourceforge.net/</a> [2] <a href="http://quail.southernvaleslug.org/webblog/archives/136" target="_blank">http://quail.southernvaleslug.org/webblog/archives/136</a> -- [WWW] <a href="http://quail.southernvaleslug.org/" target="_blank">http://quail.southernvaleslug.org/</a> "The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them" - Albert Einstein -- ubuntu-au mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com</a> <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au</a> </blockquote></div> </div>