Cricket wireless broadband USB modem

[Fred A. Miller]

On 04/18/2010 01:12 PM, Karl Larsen wrote:
> On 04/18/2010 10:21 AM, Chuck Kuecker wrote:
>    
>> Hello,
>>
>> Has anyone used the Cricket wireless broadband service with Ubuntu, or
>> any Linux variant successfully?
>>
>> I am working on an embedded Linux project that would be much nicer with
>> broadband Internet access.
>>
>> Chuck Kuecker
>>
>>
>>
>>      
>           I googled Cricket and it is the same as Verizon has been
> selling for some time. I gather since Cricket pays to use any cellphone
> towers a user uses, they will also pay for the Internet used and that is
> why the Cricket device costs $40.00 a month.
>
>       I have not tried a USB port Internet device on Linux and can't talk
> to that part. But it seems to work well on Windows.
>    

Verizon doesn't support it openly, however, there is a web page that 
will guide you through the manual setup. I have 1 client who's using it.

Fred

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