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 1LgLMC-0003gb-5Y for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 08 Mar 2009 15:56:04 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 15C31E06B8; Sun, 8 Mar 2009 15:56:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: from rv-out-0708.google.com (rv-out-0708.google.com [209.85.198.250]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF2EDE06B8 for ; Sun, 8 Mar 2009 15:56:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: by rv-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id f25so1341067rvb.46 for ; Sun, 08 Mar 2009 08:56:02 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=uYzY6VusX5SPfgf8qRbmnJZ/185Axns/FUULyG0ZA2g=; b=xLoZA7gtxJBxiaDDGrMUV855tq6c18bnbfB6Ldm+bHC3u1ngNA2QsK6UkYwpsykghL lwn25kmul0UBK9d+kByQIRv5joWpRKhkxH71eFvgMWoASxWNNfB3gVu+QJEmxXKJSJZJ qZrHXMXfmnrMs32VShPKNoKamRTFo9Bz4alKo= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=fPZmJguEF8fStpNKmHgqbB7KnHHyDrqZjNxNUBl/E5VipWEuYJt8SK0S9MrF4zMhAz rZn/lFK1sZFwhnGxs+dDqprDQN3zGjMApT7dNfdRf8+dzbkVhHw3bkYTwkFzPnCoZatf okbsX8K+ffFHYOpUiKOi22YQp5FvAWH99N9pY= 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 Received: by 10.114.157.1 with SMTP id f1mr2926569wae.43.1236527762542; Sun, 08 Mar 2009 08:56:02 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20090308101530.401e5abe@krikkit.digimed.co.uk> References: <49bf44f10903071637n7e4499ffv5263288db54029b3@mail.gmail.com> <20090308101530.401e5abe@krikkit.digimed.co.uk> Date: Sun, 8 Mar 2009 08:56:02 -0700 Message-ID: <49bf44f10903080856p269ef101ja2b0461d1da1739e@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless broadband modems - Working? From: Grant To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 627ac66b-9031-4953-be42-cbe2596d45b9 X-Archives-Hash: 9c9fb69965f701b4bc3ee9bb1246087f >> Does anyone have experience with this stuff? =A0Do 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