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>> Does anyone have experience with this stuff? Do wireless broadband |
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>> modems work in Gentoo? |
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> I tried a number of 3G modems for an article I wrote last year and all |
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> of them worked. There were only two brands of modem supplied by the |
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> various telcos, Huawei and Novatel and they are very similar in |
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> operation. |
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> Vodafone have a software package for these modems, whichever telco you |
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> use, but it is tricky to get working with a shedload of dependencies. If |
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> is only needed if you want to do stuff like send SMS messages from the |
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> computer. For standard Internet usage, you only need the kernel modules |
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> and your favourite PPP software. |
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> Neil Bothwick |
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Thanks Neil, I'd like to get as close as possible to being ready to |
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plug-and-play with one of those modems. Do you remember the names of |
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the kernel modules? I've never used PPP software before. Can you |
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recommend a package? |
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- Grant |