[ubuntu-uk] 3G wireless on 9.10 or 10.4

[Dave Smith]

Long time listener, first time caller

 

Have acer aspire one netbook with 9.10.  

 

I have until now been using a phone with an app to convert 3G to 802.11g
but the cost per MB through a phone just isn't comparable to the cost
per MB through a dongle.  So I want to switch to a dongle.

 

(As an aside, why the blinkin flip??  This has actually quite annoyed
me; why a MB delivered through 3G to a phone cost soooooo much more than
a MB delivered through 3G to a dongle).

 

I would like to use Orange and they say the dongle does not support
Linux.  I suspect the dongle does, and orange are choosing not to
(whereas another of the big five have set up a repository to support
their dongles). From what I have read online, some folk have had some
success with some dongle models.

 

Anyone using a dongle from orange with an ubuntu netbook?  Which model
dongle did you use?  Or which service provider seems the most Linux
friendly?

 

Cheers

 

 Dave Smith

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