Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless broadband modems - Working?

[Grant <emailgrant@gmail.com>]

>> 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.
>
>
> --
> Neil Bothwick

Thanks Neil, I'd like to get as close as possible to being ready to
plug-and-play with one of those modems.  Do you remember the names of
the kernel modules?  I've never used PPP software before.  Can you
recommend a package?

- Grant