From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LgG2q-0002Sq-RO for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 08 Mar 2009 10:15:45 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9ABA3E03AA; Sun, 8 Mar 2009 10:15:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.digimed.co.uk (82-69-83-178.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk [82.69.83.178]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 48142E03AA for ; Sun, 8 Mar 2009 10:15:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from krikkit.digimed.co.uk (krikkit.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 0558031E770 for ; Sun, 8 Mar 2009 10:15:41 +0000 (GMT) Date: Sun, 8 Mar 2009 10:15:30 +0000 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless broadband modems - Working? Message-ID: <20090308101530.401e5abe@krikkit.digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <49bf44f10903071637n7e4499ffv5263288db54029b3@mail.gmail.com> References: <49bf44f10903071637n7e4499ffv5263288db54029b3@mail.gmail.com> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.1cvs2 (GTK+ 2.14.7; i686-pc-linux-gnu) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7260 0F33 97EC 2F1E 7667 FE37 BA6E 1A97 4375 1903 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="Sig_/2eb/q5G00BmSguv_UWd98mf"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 X-Archives-Salt: 93e4e0df-4031-4afd-8c39-a76fe44225ba X-Archives-Hash: 5b5bc1991cfe734de25be7653a11db1c --Sig_/2eb/q5G00BmSguv_UWd98mf Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, 7 Mar 2009 16:37:03 -0800, Grant wrote: > Does anyone have experience with this stuff? Do wireless broadband > modems work in Gentoo? I tried a number of 3G modems for an article I wrote last year and all of them worked. There were only two brands of modem supplied by the various telcos, Huawei and Novatel and they are very similar in operation. Vodafone have a software package for these modems, whichever telco you use, but it is tricky to get working with a shedload of dependencies. If is only needed if you want to do stuff like send SMS messages from the computer. For standard Internet usage, you only need the kernel modules and your favourite PPP software. --=20 Neil Bothwick without C people would code in Basi, Pasal and Obol --Sig_/2eb/q5G00BmSguv_UWd98mf Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.10 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkmzmscACgkQum4al0N1GQMSYgCeLpXAL4XzVwXilLnoTHEk1NV0 2JcAnjpjR0f6qZqek0DSJ2lUV1prgOSg =OMKD -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/2eb/q5G00BmSguv_UWd98mf--