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[annathyst]

Dear Lazyweb,

Tell me about 3G [edit: yes, of course I mean cell modem] USB dongles and (Ubuntu) Linux

Love and kisses, Adam

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[cursim.livejournal.com]

you plug it in, then ubuntu mounts it and makes you a delicious cappucino

[pyrop.livejournal.com]

I had a date like that once.

[halkeye]

3G as wireless thing
or 3Gb capacity.

I know little about either, but i was confused.

[dormando.livejournal.com]

most of them just show up as serial usb (ttyUSB0/etc) and then you get a special chat script to dial up with it. Some (like my novatel usb727) first show up as a cdrom drive, which I inject, then the serial devices pop up.

The one non linux compatible thing was registering the device, which I had to do on my mac. haven't needed a windows or mac thingie since.

... assuming you're talking about cellular wireless devices :P

[bz2.livejournal.com]

Folks, "3G dongle" pretty universally refers to a wireless device. They're not that hard to make work under Linux, I've heard, they're generally serial devices.

[http://users.livejournal.com/butter_fly_/]

love and kisses, huh?

[dragan-fly.livejournal.com]

I have nothing useful to say except I haven't heard the word dongle in a million years.

[ironicminx.livejournal.com]

Same general idea, but I wanted to add that "dongle" always sounded like a dirty word to me and made me giggle a little. Also, I'm surviving off of twizzlers and diet dew as of late so a LOT of things make me giggle these days. Yay finals.

[yellowpigs.livejournal.com]

I don't know any of the details, but one of my officemates has a Novatel Ovation U727 working on Ubuntu.

[justbeast.livejournal.com]

Incidentally, you don't have a Palm-powered phone (like a Treo or Centro), do you?

[annathyst]

Nope, my personal phone is a Blackberry. It works as a cellmodem, but it's only EDGE, so it's sloooow and laaaaaaaaaggy.

Background for this: we're doing on-call at work now, and bossman has offered to buy a datacard for the person on the hook on a given night to use.

How are you liking island life? I've heard a lot from Cat, but not much from you. Besides a silly photo of happy dogs in snow.

[justbeast.livejournal.com]

Ah, I see. (The reason I ask about a Palm cellmodem is cause I heard stories that people got it working with Ubuntu. I'm gonna try that out myself)

As for island life - hey, I'm workin' on it! :) I made some posts, some moar are coming.

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