mobile usb phones

[Chris Robinson]

I have a Huawei dongle I got on a plan, and there's also a Huawei hardwired into my EeePC (different model though).  Neither have given me any problems connecting with the previous LTS right through to the current beta for 12.04.  



All you have to do is right click on the network connections and set up the mobile broadband connection.  It should automatically find the correct device, and all you do then is select Australia and the plan type.  Once it shows the connection data, just accept the values as is.  Make sure you click the box "connect automatically" and you will have a connection made whenever you boot or resume with 10.04 LTS.

There's a bug in the later network manager releases I'm trying to get acknowledged, or at least confirmed at the project level:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager/+bug/880084

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=667488

The bug means that from 11.04 onwards, including the current beta, the wireless internet will _NOT_ connect automatically - you have to enable it each time, unfortunately.

Chris.


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 From: john_cullen <john_cullen at purencool.com>
To: ubuntu-au at lists.ubuntu.com 
Sent: Tuesday, 3 April 2012 7:41 AM
Subject: mobile usb phones
 

Hi ubuntu people

I am running ubuntu 11.10 can anyone tell me if they are using 3g
    wireless dongles  in Australia and how easy is it to install.

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