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Article #802Re: Using USB Wireless sticks with Linux
From: Zebee Johnstone
Date: Tue, 05 May 2009 20:26
Date: Tue, 05 May 2009 20:26
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In aus.computers.linux on Wed, 06 May 2009 03:30:41 +1000 Doug Laidlaw <laidlaws@hotkey.net.au> wrote: > I have one from Optus Australia. I don't know if it would work with Linux, > but no info on Linux is available. > I know the Huaweis work, whether they'll work out of the box or you need to install Huawei's driver will depend on your distro I suppose, mainly on how old it is. (I had it running on Fedora Core 8, I haven't tried on Centos 5) If you have a fairly recent distro, then you should be able to use network manager "mobile broadband" and configure that. Zebee
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