Mobile broadband

[Mark Widdicombe]

On Tue, 2010-12-14 at 13:52 +0000, Chris G wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 03:33:38PM +0200, Mark Widdicombe wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, 2010-12-14 at 23:08 +1000, Nick Edwards wrote:
<snip>
> > >
> > > Why is mobile broadband such a pain in the arse with Ubuntu, using
> > > e220, on fedora and gentoo the bitch knows its a GSM modem and not
> > > storage, but  Ubuntu, keeps failing 9/10 times, the e220 should not
> > > need mode switch because the kernel does the switching for this modem,
> > > but Ubuntu, no, not even with modeswitch does it work reliably, who
> > > was it that used to say ubuntu butchers things to oblivion? I am
> > > starting to see there point of view.
> > >
> > Hi Nick,
> >
> > I understand your frustration.  I struggled for about two weeks to get
> > my Huwaei E160 modem working with modeswitch, and eventually only won
> > when I installed wicd.  I thought they had sorted it out in newer
> > versions, but it seems not.
<snip>
> I have a much better solution (after having fought with 3-G dongles in
> both Windows and Ubuntu for a while), get a 3-G router which the SIM
> plugs into directly.  No nasty USB dongles involved at all, sensible Web
> configuration of the router and then *anything* with a network
> connection (RJ45 or WiFi) can connect to the internet via the router in
> the usual way.

That's not a practical suggestion if the dongle is used to provide net
access to a laptop.  Lugging a router through airports &c isn't really
an option.

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