[ubuntu-za] South African Ubuntu

[Walter Leibbrandt]

Hi,

Morgan Collett wrote:
> I just tried NetworkManager's 3G support in Intrepid, and it really
> has grown a beard and punched my old ppp script into oblivion!
> (http://blogs.gnome.org/dcbw/2007/10/15/networkmanager-07-is-the-new-chuck-norris/)
>
> I plugged my Nokia E61's USB cable in, selected "PC Suite" mode on the
> phone, and NetworkManager detected it as a mobile broadband device and
> let me configure it by selecting one of the ZA cell providers - choose
> from cell-c, MTN, Virgin Mobile, Vodacom and Vodacom unrestricted APN.
> That adds in a profile with *99# etc preconfigured. Then to use it I
> just click on the NM applet and choose Vodacom, and it Just Works.
>
> Hopefully the USB 3G modems work just as well.
>
> Regards
> Morgan
>   
That sounds great! As a fellow E61-owner I'm wondering if it will work
equally well when connecting via Bluetooth.

I believe most of us had some obscure script, copied from some web-site,
to connect via 3G via Bluetooth. It would be wonderful indeed if this is
now handled by NM!

Regards,
Walter

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