[clug] Mobile broadband for linux?

[Colin Roe]

Hi List

As we're onto using mobile phones as broadband modems under Linux, I can also 
confirm that the Samsung A411NextG phone 'just works' with Ubuntu 9.04 (and 
reportedly also with the latest Mint too).

Plug it into the USB and immediately a New Mobile Broadband Connection screen 
appears leading to, inter alia, preconfigured setup options for various 
Telstra services. All you need to know is which one to select and you're on 
the net - albeit expensively. For NextG I chose the Telstra (UMTS HSDPA) 
option.

Frustratingly, this 'just works' solution doesn't seem to be in Kubuntu 9.04 
or the KDE4 variants of openSuSE 11.1 or 11.2 Milestone 7. Nor did it come up 
in a Gnome install of 11.2 Milestone 7 which I find intriguing.

Is there any simple way to install all necessary parts of the system 
that  'just works' in Ubuntu into a KDE-based operating system?

Or am I stuck with cobbling the config data from Ubuntu 9.04's 
System/Preferences/Network Connections/Mobile Broadband into the Network 
Manager in KDE? So far that alone hasn't been sufficient.

Colin Roe

On Tuesday 15 September 2009 15:55:23 Ian McLeod wrote in the CLUG list:

> Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2009 13:43:09 +1000
> From: Ian McLeod <ianmcleod75 at gmail.com>
> To: CLUG List <linux at lists.samba.org>
> Subject: Re: [clug] Mobile broadband for linux?
> Message-ID: <4AAF0D4D.20505 at gmail.com>
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> I can confirm it works perfectly in Ubuntu 9.04 - I put my Nokia N95 in
> PC Suite mode and the Connection Manager picked it up - I then selected
> 'Three' and bam it works - in fact better than under Windows as it
> doesn't drop out at all.  In windows it would periodically drop out and
> drive me balmy.  I'm very happy with the performance of my trusty little
> N95 seconded as a mobile modem.
>
> Now if anyone can help me work out how to VPN back through home with
> that I'll buy them a pint of Guinness.
>
> RedBox wrote:
> > Dear All,
> > Does anyone know whether there any problems using mobile broadband usb
> > modems on linux?   I note most have connection manager software for
> > Macs.  i.e. do any have linux applications in the included software or
> > are they all just M$ & Mac?
> > Are there any alternate connection managers about to run under linux?
> > Cheers,
> > Chris Henman

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