Re: [Hampshire] 3g dongles (Was: Re: GPS Dongle recommendat…

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Author: Ian Park
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Subject: Re: [Hampshire] 3g dongles (Was: Re: GPS Dongle recommendations)
Andy Smith wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 04:35:28PM +0000, Stuart Biggs wrote:
>> has anyone been able to get those internet dongle working with ubuntu?
>
> My Huawai E220 as supplied by 3 has worked in every version of
> Ubuntu I tried it on, out of the box, since Hardy.
>
> I wouldn't go with 3 these days though.
>
> Cheers,
> Andy
>
>

My 2p worth: I have a Huawei 3G dongle supplied by Vodafone (bought
through Amazon for GBP25 including GBP15 of "call" credit) - you can
download Linux driver software for it from the Vodafone Betavine
website. It works fine with Ubuntu Karmic (haven't tried it with Lucid yet).

Ian
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