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Simon Avery wrote: > 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, Thank you for this reassuring information. I shall have a go this weekend. John -- 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