[Gloucs] o2 mobile on ubuntu.

[Andrew M.A. Cater]

On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 02:06:53PM +0000, Geoff Bagley wrote:
> My daughter lives in Ireland,  and the only available broadband internet 
> access
> at her location is o2  mobile, using a small usb dongle.
> 
> She used Windows XP until she got fed up with crawling operating speeds 
> due to malware
> ostensibly in the registry.  We  installed Ubuntu Karmic earlier today,  
> and now the o2 mobile
> dongle doesn't work.
> 

Network manager under Ubuntu should be able to sort this one out - it 
certainly did on Ubuntu Netbook Remix.

This worked for me with a Virgin Mobile dongle (Huawei something or 
other)

Plug it in, then go across to the network management "thing" and sort 
out Mobile Broadband. It'll ask you for a network and a data plan and 
then you should be OK.

Haven't got an Ubuntu machine online at the moment to put this through 
more fully.

Google "Ubuntu 9.10 O2 mobile broadband USB dongle" and you may get some 
useful info.


> The "help" line at o2 were not helpful at all.  They charge full price 
> until the end of the current contract
> and  do not support operating systems other than M$.
> 
> Can anyone help me to get this gadget working.
> One of may sons has offered to re-nstall XP.
> 
> Geoff
> 
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