IIRC from researching this a while ago, some dongles used to require quite a bit of fiddling to get working. Some of the USB sticks included both the modem itself and a flash drive which contained the Windows (and sometimes Mac) drivers - very convenient on those platforms, but unfortunately not well supported in Ubuntu 8.04. You basically needed to poke around, unmount the flash drive, and then do something with the modem - all via the command line, which wasn't ideal.
8.04 was the last time I used a dongle, so I can't say for sure if this has been fixed in 8.10 - I'll do some digging... On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 10:16 AM, James Thomas <selin...@googlemail.com> wrote: > I use the Huawei E220 with T-mobile (contract) > > It was as easy as plugging it in selecting T-mobile from the dropdown and I > was online in minutes. (Ibex) > Download a limited but not enforced... > > Has been excellent. > > Highly recommended... > > I have tried to configure an ICON 255 that came with Orange, you have to > install other stuff to get it to work and it is not reliable and locks up my > girlfriends laptop so the it needs a power cycle to clear... > > > > 2009/1/20 Sean Miller <s...@seanmiller.net> >> >> 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/
