I am currently on a train going to the darkest parts of Kent and using a 'Three' dongle on my eeePC 701 running eeeBuntu. 3G works fine in Ubuntu 8.10. Although there is a know bug where you sometimes dont get DNS from your provider, but it's being worked on. All I do is disconnect and reconnect and it works normally.
I have seen 'Three' dongles for sale as PAYG with a good amount of bandwidth included if you dont want a long contract. As 'Three' customer my dongle is only £5 a month for 1GB. More than enough mobile bandwidth. Colin (getting close to my station) 2009/1/20 Ian Betteridge <i...@ianbetteridge.co.uk>: > The built-in 3G modem in my Dell was recognised under 8.10, and works > perfectly. > > On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 12:17 AM, Simon Wears <munkyju...@googlemail.com> > wrote: >> I've READ it works well, but I haven't tried it personally. >> >> Simon >> >> >> >> On 20 Jan 2009, at 00:05, "Sean Miller" <s...@seanmiller.net> wrote: >> >>> Anybody got any experience of mobile broadband? >>> >>> I may be moving to rented accommodation shortly and don't know how >>> long I'll be there, so the mobile broadband concept is tempting as >>> it'll allow me to not worry about "minimum contracts" and so on with >>> phone lines etc. >>> >>> How supported is it with Ubuntu? Is there a particular network that >>> works well, are they all as easy as it comes or should I just forget >>> it entirely and route through a Windows PC? >>> >>> Any advice very much appreciated :-) >>> >>> Best, >>> >>> Sean >>> >>> -- >>> ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com >>> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk >>> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ >> >> -- >> ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com >> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk >> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ >> > > -- > ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ > -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
