Mobile broadband

[Chris G]

On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 03:33:38PM +0200, Mark Widdicombe wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 2010-12-14 at 23:08 +1000, Nick Edwards wrote:
> > IIRC Gentoo is a rolling release, and their wiki is awesome, it
> > contains real detail, not some bloated opinion that is heavy on
> > ubuntu's wiki's, and has detail to real questions, not some crap that
> > any 13yo kid already knows. ubtunu's wiki is a joke its the last place
> > I look for answers.
> >
> > Why is mobile broadband such a pain in the arse with Ubuntu, using
> > e220, on fedora and gentoo the bitch knows its a GSM modem and not
> > storage, but  Ubuntu, keeps failing 9/10 times, the e220 should not
> > need mode switch because the kernel does the switching for this modem,
> > but Ubuntu, no, not even with modeswitch does it work reliably, who
> > was it that used to say ubuntu butchers things to oblivion? I am
> > starting to see there point of view.
> >
> Hi Nick,
> 
> I understand your frustration.  I struggled for about two weeks to get
> my Huwaei E160 modem working with modeswitch, and eventually only won
> when I installed wicd.  I thought they had sorted it out in newer
> versions, but it seems not.
> 
> I took the liberty of starting a new thread for you because this is
> quite important to a lot of users.
> 
I have a much better solution (after having fought with 3-G dongles in
both Windows and Ubuntu for a while), get a 3-G router which the SIM
plugs into directly.  No nasty USB dongles involved at all, sensible Web
configuration of the router and then *anything* with a network
connection (RJ45 or WiFi) can connect to the internet via the router in
the usual way.

-- 
Chris Green