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 wrote:

>> Anybody here had any luck getting the Virgin Broadband USB stick to work
>> under Linux?
>>
>> Particularly Mandriva 2010?
> 
> All depends I spose - What brand is the modem?
> 
> If it's a Huawei

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.

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.

cMz wrote:

> 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.

Which reminds me, I recently read one of the English Linux magazines (forget 
which one) which had the usual free cd, and they were stating that for GSM 
users, a "pleasant surprise was in store".

Maybe one day we can all get a "pleasant surprise"?
> 

 wrote:

>> 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.
> 
> If it's an E220, I spotted this link:

I am not sure what it is, but that link sounds helpful, I will give it a go 
later.

Thanks for the help!

 wrote:

> If it's an E220,

Bummer, the Virgin packaging says "PP Huawei E169 Modem SL".

Couldn't find much useful stuff on that one on the Internet;  just wondering 
if I installed the software you mentioned;  would it fry the guts of the GSM 
stick somehow?

 wrote:

> Given there's folks saying they can get these things (specifically the
> E169) working on their Fedora machines just by plugging them in a
> booting up their machine, there has to be a way :-)

Err .. probably putting up Fedora would be the easiest?

In aus.computers.linux on Sat, 03 Apr 2010 19:12:22 +1100
Polly the Parrot <flatulantdingo@deadspam.com> wrote:
>  wrote:
>
>> If it's an E220,
>
> Bummer, the Virgin packaging says "PP Huawei E169 Modem SL".
>

Try the 220 stuff anyway, after all can it hurt?

I bought what I thought was a 169 off ebay, turned out to be a 220,
the info I had worked OK with Fedora.

Zebee

Zebee Johnstone wrote:

> Try the 220 stuff anyway, after all can it hurt?

Thanks, will give it a go when I get the chance!
>