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Article #663Re: Virgin Broadband GSM
From: cMz
Date: Thu, 01 Apr 2010 10:41
Date: Thu, 01 Apr 2010 10:41
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On 01/04/10 20:49, Polly the Parrot wrote: [snip] > > It is, but asks for pin numbers, log ins, and whatever else it seems to need > in my distro; when installed in Windows none of this is asked for. > > Also in Windows it shows a dial up sequence of *91#; nowhere to put this in > any of the boxes in Linux. > > Mandriva 2010.PowerPack ($$) > > I was hoping to avoid the drones at Virgin - provided I can actually get a > human; only to hear "we don't support Linux" usual sort of rubbish. I understand your frustration. At work there is a colleague who goes online with his laptop running Ubuntu. His modem is Huawei and he had no problems setting it up. I tried to plug his modem into my laptop running Mandriva 2010 and experienced same issues as you. Today I tried to resurrect my uncle's laptop with dead Windows by using a PCLinuxOS Live CD. Everything worked except his Huawei modem. As PCLOS is Mandriva based I wasn't surprised too much. In this case it seems that some distros do a better job than the others.
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