[ubuntu-uk] 3G wireless on 9.10 or 10.4

[Bruno Girin]

On Fri, 2010-04-09 at 17:24 +0100, Dave Smith wrote:
> Long time listener, first time caller
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> Have acer aspire one netbook with 9.10.  
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> I have until now been using a phone with an app to convert 3G to
> 802.11g but the cost per MB through a phone just isn’t comparable to
> the cost per MB through a dongle.  So I want to switch to a dongle.
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> (As an aside, why the blinkin flip??  This has actually quite annoyed
> me; why a MB delivered through 3G to a phone cost soooooo much more
> than a MB delivered through 3G to a dongle).
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> I would like to use Orange and they say the dongle does not support
> Linux.  I suspect the dongle does, and orange are choosing not to
> (whereas another of the big five have set up a repository to support
> their dongles). From what I have read online, some folk have had some
> success with some dongle models.
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> Anyone using a dongle from orange with an ubuntu netbook?  Which model
> dongle did you use?  Or which service provider seems the most Linux
> friendly?

Dave,

I've used a 3 Huawei dongle on my Ubuntu laptop as well as my UNR EeePC
since 9.04 and it works out of the box.

I suspect the Orange dongles will work fine too. However, none of the
mobile operators in the UK will officially say that they support Linux
and most of the staff have no idea what Linux is.

One thing you could do is bring the laptop into the shop and ask them to
try it out before you buy. If it works, as soon as you plug it in a
configuration window will open asking you what country and service
provider you're using. Once it's configured it will show up in the
Network Manager menu.

Bruno