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John Hansen wrote: > I have bought the above broadband modem from Currys. It came with > T-Mobile "pay as you go" which costs £4 per day. However 3 offer "pay as > you go" for £10 per month which is rather more attractive. I assume one > can buy a 3 SIM card for use with the modem even though the local mobile > phone shop insists on selling a complete package including an identical > modem. One thing I am unclear about is whether the modem needs to be > unlocked and if so how does one achieve that. > Any advice from members with experience of these matters would be welcome. I've just added a Vodaphone E220 to my new eee. Wasn't painful at all. Drivers are installed by magic, you just need to create a new GSM network connection and follow a few prompts. It /is/ slow to respond - connection takes about 4 minutes, most of which is sitting there with you thinking it's crashed, but it does work ok. I think that's something unique to me though. Once on it's fine. From googling, the E220 is regarded as a good dongle that's supported as a normal modem by linux (although I couldn't tell you which kernels) -- Simon Avery -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html