[SWLUG] Linux mobile broadband advice please

[Philip Barnes]

Hi Mark
What distro are you running?

I did quite a bit of experimenting last year with a Huawei and a Nokia
N95 with a variety of distros (all on live CD) after helping a guy on
the Leicester LUG and getting that realisation that not all distros as
easy as Fedora or Ubuntu.

At the time I found that the only distros that would detect the devices
were Fedora (gnome) and Ubuntu (I never tried Kubuntu). Out of the box
working is certainly still true on Fedora 15.

If you have a suitable 3G phone and cable, and have a reasonable data
allowance, or can buy a bolt on I would just do that for a few days.

Otherwise either buy a cheap PAYG SIM card for the same operator if
locked, Three if unlocked, or get a Three PAYG dongle. On PAYG Three
will then offer you various access/costs.

HTH Phil

On Sat, 2011-07-30 at 11:55 +0100, Mark Summerfield wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> My broadband connection has been down since Thursday. Plus.net have
> said it is a problem at the local exchange and that an engineer will
> go there on Monday, so maybe I'll be reconnected next week!
> 
> But I want to have a backup connection option. Mobile broadband for
> Windows & Mac is no use to me since I use Linux & so all my
> hg/git/VPN/etc using Linux.
> 
> I've heard that Vodafone have devices that will work.
> 
> Can anyone suggest or advise on this?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> PS Thank goodness I still have libraries in my area for internet access.
>