Jonathon Fernyhough wrote: > 2009/9/2 Alan Lord (News) <alansli...@gmail.com>: > >> On 02/09/09 12:30, huet bartels wrote: >> >>> Dear all, >>> >>> Has anyone got experience in using a mobile G3 Dongle with Ubuntu. >>> Vodafone or 3 Network some other provider. >>> >>> If so could you recommend the best one to purchase. >>> >>> Thank you in advance >>> >>> Huet Bartels >>> >>> >>> >> I use an Option ICON 225 dongle on the Orange network. >> >> Works fine in Jaunty and (mostly) Karmic. >> >> We did a lot of work on 3G last year for CarPhone Warehouse and Elonex. >> Most common dongles work with little or no trouble on Linux with recent >> kernels. >> >> Hauwei were a bit of a PITA as they would release a new model but keep >> the same USB id. Doh. >> >> Alan >> >> >> -- >> ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com >> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk >> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ >> >> > > DO NOT go for a ZTE modem (e.g. the ZTE 627 that 3 do). They don't > work out-of-the box with Ubuntu and are a royal pain (though > apparently the included software works, though that's a third-party > app and driver which don't work on 64-bit). The situation will improve > but at the moment something along the lines of an E160 is your best > bet. > > Have a look here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/NetworkManager/Hardware/3G >
A work colleague of mine was given a ZTE dongle for his birthday and it was indeed a royal pain to get working for him. It doesn't mount as a USB storage device (which it is) nor was as a modem (which it also is). After much faffing about on the intarwebz I found two deb packages to install which gets the thing (sem-)working. The ironic thing is: once it (finally!) mounted as a USB device, the blasted thing has Linux drivers on it! Grrrrr.... Oh, and the 3 coverage (here in Glasgow anyway) is utter rubbish. -- Ronnie Tucker ron...@ronnietucker.co.uk http://RonnieTucker.co.uk TWITTER: twitter.com/ronnietucker MSN: ronnietuc...@hotmail.com Registered Linux User # 456627 Registered Ubuntu User # 18227 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
