[DC LoCo] Want to configure a Cellular Broadband card?

[Eric Maag]

Ooohhh, that's a toughie, I don't have any experience getting one of
those puppies up and running. Let me know if you have any luck with
it.

Eric


On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 11:17 AM, Sanjay Jain <oss.cleveland at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Clarification: This is not a wifi card that works with a router, but a cellular connection.
>
> Having said that, it probably works the same way. I've installed USB wifi using the ndiswrapper and windows drivers and it works well.
>
> ~sanjay
>
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> --- On Wed, 7/9/08, Eric Maag <eric.maag at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> From: Eric Maag <eric.maag at gmail.com>
>> Subject: Re: [DC LoCo] Want to configure a Cellular Broadband card?
>> To: "Sanjay Jain" <oss.cleveland at yahoo.com>
>> Cc: ubuntu-us-dc at lists.ubuntu.com
>> Date: Wednesday, July 9, 2008, 9:53 AM
>> I had some fun getting my wireless card working on my
>> laptop, the best
>> way I found it to first of all get ndiswrapper installed,
>> there's even
>> a gui available for it, (I'm not on the laptop so I
>> can't give you the
>> name for it) but basically the gist of what I did was first
>> off
>> download the Windows driver for it (you're looking for
>> a
>> wireless_card_name.INF file, then install it w/ndiswrapper)
>>
>> Of course things never go as smoothly as planned, but
>> that's a good
>> starting point.
>>
>> regards,
>> Eric Maag
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 9:17 AM, Sanjay Jain
>> <oss.cleveland at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > Some one's XP laptop caught viruses, I told him
>> that I'd install Ubuntu on it, I have the laptop with
>> me.... but he's using AT&T's Aircard 881 to
>> connect to the net.
>> >
>> > I know geekier people than I, may like the opportunity
>> to get this to work... want to play?
>> >
>> > ~sanay
>> >
>> >
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