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Article #803Re: Using USB Wireless sticks with Linux
From: Doug Laidlaw
Date: Wed, 06 May 2009 03:18
Date: Wed, 06 May 2009 03:18
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Zebee Johnstone wrote: > 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 I am running Mandriva 2009 Spring. I was not thinking straight. I tried under Wireless and got nowhere. I tried under GPRS/3G, and it was detected. The network was "unlisted" and available networks under manual setup don't include Australia. At the moment, the modem has no credits, and we use it only for my wife's XP laptop. I will experiment further next time we buy credits. Doug. -- They change their climate, not their soul, who run beyond the sea. - Horace, Roman poet, 1st c. B.C.
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X-Google-Thread: cfc73a2246,2c6ea4117e6aad51 X-Google-Attributes: gidcfc73a2246,public,usenet X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!g2news2.google.com!news3.google.com!goblin1!goblin3!goblin.stu.neva.ru!exi-transit.telstra.net!news.telstra.net!exi-spool.telstra.net!exi-reader.telstra.net!not-for-mail Newsgroups: aus.computers.linux Followup-To: aus.computers.linux From: Doug Laidlaw <laidlaws@hotkey.net.au> Subject: Re: Using USB Wireless sticks with Linux Date: Wed, 06 May 2009 13:18:27 +1000 References: <tIWKl.7973$y61.6894@news-server.bigpond.net.au> <gIYKl.5339$TA6.1665@newsfe09.ams2> <1y4Ll.8057$y61.1839@news-server.bigpond.net.au> <slrngvplmh.c6l.zebeej@gmail.com> <x_4Ll.8068$y61.3930@news-server.bigpond.net.au> <slrngvprbu.c6r.zebeej@gmail.com> <2n96d6-git.ln1@dougshost.douglaidlaw.net> <slrnh0186h.cjb.zebeej@gmail.com> User-Agent: KNode/0.99.01 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Message-ID: <35c7d6-mh9.ln1@dougshost.douglaidlaw.net> Lines: 35 NNTP-Posting-Host: 58.179.186.4 X-Trace: 1241582702 exi-reader.telstra.net 7201 58.179.186.4:56048