Well, Wifi hotspots are not as ubiquitous in my country as elsewhere. In the future please add Debian User to the recipients... :-)
On Σαβ, 2012-01-07 at 16:57 -0500, chris wrote: > Why can't you just use a WiFi hotspot or.similar? > > chris > > On Jan 7, 2012 4:06 PM, "Panayiotis" <pan...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks! > > Well, sometimes the modem won't get recognized at all (nothing > in dmesg > or lsusb), sometimes it will be connected for a while then > suddenly > disconnect. Signal strength is weaker than in Windoze > (generally no 3G > in Linux). The worst is that when the disconnects happen > (which is > often) I have to plug it out and back in, as NetworkManager > can't > reconnect otherwise. I have also tried wvdial, but it's > annoying to have > to use a different program, and the signal weakness still > applies. > > And I have had quite a lot of trouble to get it work at all, > including > having to pull in usbmodeswitch from Wheezy. > > I want a modem that will "just work"... :-) > > On Σαβ, 2012-01-07 at 21:09 +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > On Sb, 07 ian 12, 20:07:29, Panayiotis Karabassis wrote: > > > > > > To access the internet I have paid for a Vodafone Mobile > Internet > > > Contract. However the provided Huawei usb modem has been > nothing but > > > trouble. > > > > Can you provide some more details? I've used two different > Huawei modems > > on squeeze without problems. > > > > Kind regards, > > Andrei > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: > http://lists.debian.org/1325970368.4682.14.camel@smyrna > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1325973736.4682.23.camel@smyrna