[Gllug] USB 3G modems

[Caroline Ford]

On 01/03/2008, Alan Pope <alan at popey.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 01, 2008 at 12:15:44PM +0000, Adrian McMenamin wrote:
>  > These are being heavily advertised in London atm and they seem very
>  > appealing - but do any of them work with Linux?
>  >
>
>
> The bar of soap shaped USB connected devices do with very little effort,
>  yes. Huawei e220 is the device inside most of them.

Not true - it depends strongly on your kernel.

I have my E270 (vodafone 7.2 thing) working in Ubuntu hardy, but it
takes effort in lower kernels. The problem is the CD formatted flash
drive containing the windows drivers. This needs to be switched off
before the device will work.

Caroline
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