[Gllug] PAYG mobile broadband

[Tristan Miller]

Greetings.

On Monday 20 December 2010, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 03:27:25PM +0000, Tristan Miller wrote:
> > Greetings.
> > 
> > On Monday 20 December 2010, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> > > On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 03:17:04PM +0000, Tristan Miller wrote:
> > > > Dear all,
> > > > 
> > > > On Thursday 16 December 2010, Tristan Miller wrote:
> > > > > I did some further research and apparently Vodafone's PAYG "USB
> > > > > Modem Stick white" is a K3570-Z, which is reported to work well
> > > > > with the Sakis3G script.  The cost is £25, which includes 3GB,
> > > > > and £15 for every 3GB thereafter.  The initial cost can be
> > > > > reduced to £15 through a cashback site like
> > > > > <http://www.topcashback.co.uk/vodafone_-_personal/>.
> > > > 
> > > > I got my Vodafone pay-as-you-go dongle on Friday and tried it out.
> > > >  It works, with one extremely irritating caveat:  the device must
> > > > first be used on a Microsoft Windows or Mac OS X machine.  I
> > > > assume that the dongle is somehow locked at first, and that the
> > > > proprietary MS Windows/Mac OS X "installation" software unlocks
> > > > it.  I've posted further details at
> > > > <http://forum.sakis3g.org/smf/index.php?topic=262.0>.
> > > 
> > > I'm assuming this is "first time ever", not "first time each boot".
> > 
> > Well, I assume it's "first time ever"; how is the dongle going to know
> > whether or not I've rebooted my machine?
> 
> In general because the RESET* line goes low or the power goes off :-)

Well, the power to the dongle certainly went off when I removed it from the 
MS Windows machine so that I could insert it into my GNU/Linux machine, and 
yet it worked in the GNU/Linux machine after that.  So I think that's 
pretty good evidence that the dongle doesn't care if I reboot my machine.

Regards,
Tristan

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