Woohoo!!! It took some monkeying around but it look like I solved it...through the awesome contributions of my folks out there. Please note that this is on the EeePC 901 (I believe) with the standard Xandros OS on it. YMMV using other distros, but there is lots out there on Fedora, Ubuntu & Gentoo as well.
the blog at the following address had everything I needed...with a couple of differences: * http://www.risottosblog.com/2008/05/04/asus-eeepc-with-novatel-opticon-mc950d-hsdpa-3g-modem/ 1) If you are putting in the card you may see a CD icon in the corner. This is because the USB stick has a storage component to it as well. Right-click on the icon & select eject to shut the storgae part off. 2) On the line echo "0x1410 0x4400" > /sys/bus/usb-serial/drivers/option1/new_id do not include the quotes around the 0x1410 0x4400. The line should read as follows: * echo 0x1410 0x4400 > /sys/bus/usb-serial/drivers/option1/new_id 3) On the line sudo echo "rc.local" > /etc/fastservices do not include the quotes around the rc.local. The line should read as follows: * sudo echo rc.local > /etc/fastservices 4) I went to the Network connection icon & created the connection as this point using the defaults presented in the wizard. 5) When I rebooted the system the connection was still there & all i had to do was select the Mobile Connection & select connect & voila. A couple of notes/suggestions to pass on: 1) ALways use the same USB port when you connect. I use the single one on the left-hand side. 2) If you start the system without the stick in the USB slot, the CD icon will likely show up. Right-click to eject it before trying to start the mobile connection. One other post I read suggested unmounting it...but I cannot recall how to do that...I know it uses the umount command.. 3) My best advice is to start the system with the USB stick in the port & it should start without initializing the storage component. You should then be able to start the Mobile Data Connection as normal. Now I just need to figure out how to get vlc working on it & life will be good _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
