[ubuntu-uk] Mobile Broadband

[Ian Betteridge]

IIRC from researching this a while ago, some dongles used to require
quite a bit of fiddling to get working. Some of the USB sticks
included both the modem itself and a flash drive which contained the
Windows (and sometimes Mac) drivers - very convenient on those
platforms, but unfortunately not well supported in Ubuntu 8.04. You
basically needed to poke around, unmount the flash drive, and then do
something with the modem - all via the command line, which wasn't
ideal.

8.04 was the last time I used a dongle, so I can't say for sure if
this has been fixed in 8.10 - I'll do some digging...

On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 10:16 AM, James Thomas <selinium at googlemail.com> wrote:
> I use the Huawei E220 with T-mobile (contract)
>
> It was as easy as plugging it in selecting T-mobile from the dropdown and I
> was online in minutes. (Ibex)
> Download a limited but not enforced...
>
> Has been excellent.
>
> Highly recommended...
>
> I have tried to configure an ICON 255 that came with Orange, you have to
> install other stuff to get it to work and it is not reliable and locks up my
> girlfriends laptop so the it needs a power cycle to clear...
>
>
>
> 2009/1/20 Sean Miller <sean at seanmiller.net>
>>
>> Anybody got any experience of mobile broadband?
>>
>> I may be moving to rented accommodation shortly and don't know how
>> long I'll be there, so the mobile broadband concept is tempting as
>> it'll allow me to not worry about "minimum contracts" and so on with
>> phone lines etc.
>>
>> How supported is it with Ubuntu?  Is there a particular network that
>> works well, are they all as easy as it comes or should I just forget
>> it entirely and route through a Windows PC?
>>
>> Any advice very much appreciated :-)
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Sean
>>
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