Re: [ubuntu-uk] Mobile Broadband Modem for Eee PC 901

2008-11-07 Thread Rob Beard
Yishay Mor wrote: > slightly to the left of this topic, anyone managed to use the 3 > skypphone as a modem under Ubuntu? I haven't personally (my Skypephone died after 3 days!) but it seems it can be done, at least via Bluetooth... http://davestevens.co.uk/blog/2008/01/03/3-skype-phone-as-bluet

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Mobile Broadband Modem for Eee PC 901

2008-11-06 Thread Yishay Mor
slightly to the left of this topic, anyone managed to use the 3 skypphone as a modem under Ubuntu? ___ Yishay Mor, Researcher, London Knowledge Lab http://www.lkl.ac.uk/people/mor.html http://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=yishaym%40gmail.com +44-20-7837 x5737

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Mobile Broadband Modem for Eee PC 901

2008-11-06 Thread Colin McCarthy
On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 6:28 PM, Joshua Scotton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm getting an Eee PC 901 which should be delivered tomorrow and I plan > to install ubuntu-eee on it as soon as it arrives. > > Have any of you guys managed to get a Mobile Broadband USB modem such as > Vodafon

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Mobile Broadband Modem for Eee PC 901

2008-11-06 Thread Matt Jones
I was talking about the USB ones. On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 7:05 PM, Ken Robson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Josh asked about usb broadband modems. > I used one very successfully on 8.04 (eee version) on my 702 with no > problems. > I installed the latest network manager (0.7) on 8.04 and this has th

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Mobile Broadband Modem for Eee PC 901

2008-11-06 Thread Ken Robson
Josh asked about usb broadband modems. I used one very successfully on 8.04 (eee version) on my 702 with no problems. I installed the latest network manager (0.7) on 8.04 and this has the built in broadband modem support so it was just a matter of selecting it and say connect. Usb stick was/is

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Mobile Broadband Modem for Eee PC 901

2008-11-06 Thread Matt Jones
Generally they just work, I have seen people using the Vodafone ones with them. If it doesn't work Out of the box, Vodafone have produced a GPL'd tool to use them with. I had a 3 Huawei E220, which worked perfectly. On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 6:28 PM, Joshua Scotton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > Hi all

[ubuntu-uk] Mobile Broadband Modem for Eee PC 901

2008-11-06 Thread Joshua Scotton
Hi all, I'm getting an Eee PC 901 which should be delivered tomorrow and I plan to install ubuntu-eee on it as soon as it arrives. Have any of you guys managed to get a Mobile Broadband USB modem such as Vodafones's [1] set up on an Eee PC and if so how? Also, are there any important things I ne