[ubuntu-uk] Mobile Broadband dongle ...

[Rob Beard]

On 30/04/10 19:24, NTLWorld wrote:
> Hi there ....
>
> Just had a pleasant surprise!  I collected my mobile broadband dongle
> back from a friend who had borrowed it, and plugged it into my netbook.
> It worked straight away.  I hadn't expected that, as it is supposed to
> present to the USB as a storage device, and from there, install Windows
> drivers.  I imagine some improvements in Lucid do something to tell the
> modem automatically that it needs to be a modem.
>
> For interest, the modem is a ZTE MF622.  I'm delighted!
>

That's good.  I remember having a few issues with um... Ubuntu 8.10 I 
think with USB mobile broadband modems, but as you say now it just works 
(in fact it's a lot quicker than Windows as I don't have to install the 
Windows software to use it).

Rob