[Gllug] Linux has arrived

[James Hawtin]

On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 08:20:27AM +0000, John Hearns wrote:
> 2009/3/21 Paul Lee <paul at ma1.se>:
> >
> > Ubuntu "just works" out of the box. I was amazed I could connect
> > effortlessly to wireless networks (seems any generic USB stick works) or
> > 3G Orange Mobile Broadband via my phone. Even my webcams work!
> 
> A few weeks ago in the local Currys store I saw a notice pinned up
> beside the netbooks. The gist of it was "No 3D network dongles work
> with Linux netbooks"

I got my T-Mobile wireless broadband usb network dongle to work under linux
without to much problem, the discovery to get this rolling was a program called
usb_modeswitch. wvdial, works fine to get connections and xgnokii can send
and receive txt messages.

James
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