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Re: [LUG] mobile broadband things

 

They should know! Now that Ubuntu is so popular.
You could bring a laptop in and just try it out if you have any doubts.

On 11 February 2010 23:45, Paul Sutton <zleap@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> Grant Sewell wrote:
>> On Thu, 11 Feb 2010 23:25:59 +0000
>> James Fidell wrote:
>>
>>> Over the last few days I've been attempting to get an Orange ICON 7.2
>>> dongle working on a SheevaPlug.
>>>
>>> Had to build all and install all the HSO drivers and support stuff
>>> myself, but eventually got things to the point where I could get an
>>> internet connection.
>>>
>>> Unfortunately I want this to run headless, but the HSO manager app
>>> requires X and I had some other issues with the interaction between
>>> dbus and X as well. Â(I believe) I've eventually circumvented this by
>>> running the HSO manager connected to Xvfb and using a command line
>>> app to get it to start and stop the internet connection (via dbus)
>>> as required.
>>>
>>> Somewhat clunky, but far easier than hacking the python code to remove
>>> all the GUI stuff without breaking anything else.
>>>
>>> James
>>
>> We are still talking about 3G dongles, aren't we? ÂYou shouldn't need
>> to use *any* GUI things - once you have it registering as a
>> USB-attached serial port you can use things like wvdial to handle the
>> rest.
>>
>> What's the HSO Manager app for?
>>
>> Grant.
>>
> They guy in the vodafone shop in torquay was unsure if they even work
> with linux or ubuntu. Âthe guy in the shop in paignton was even more
> vague,
>
> so it seems as the are now more supported (which i am sure this is what
> rob told me), Âit may be worth looking in to a bit more.
>
> perhaps someone should go in and demo it working, and show them it
> works, so if people ask they can give accurate information,
>
> paul
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