By the way, I forgot another important question. Does Swisscom or Sunrise assign public IPv4 addresses?.
-- Jean Pierre Rupp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> www.xeno-genesis.com El dom, 24-02-2008 a las 00:39 +0100, Grossiord Yves escribió: > Hello, > > Le samedi 23 février 2008 à 10:51 +0100, Jean Pierre Rupp a écrit : > > Je suis desolé for speaking in English. I've only been in Geneva for a > > month, and I still don't have enough skills to write in French. > > You are welcome anyway. > > > I'm planning on buying a USB wireless modem from Swisscom, the one > > that's advertised everywhere in Geneva. It connects using GPRS, EDGE, > > UMTS and HSDPA technologies, so it's quite good on the road. > > > > The only concern is the compatibility with Linux, does it work with the > > serial USB or ACM drivers without problems on a recent distribution?. > > Anyone has been using it under Linux?. > > I didn't try this one but the black one from Sunrise > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Away (Novatel Ovation MC950). It worked under > Ubuntu and Fedora with just a little trick in the > config file of vwdial to send the PIN code to the SIM > card. Average bandwidth: between 60 and 100 kb/s, but > we don't move it a lot, it's to create a private wifi > network with internet access at work. > > Swisscom seems to be using the modem Huawei E220. Google tells us that > it works on linux, especially with kernels > 2.6.20 and greater, but there is a workaround anyway: > http://oozie.fm.interia.pl/pro/huawei-e220/ > > There is even a wikipedia page on it: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huawei_E220 > > > Best regards, Yves. > > > > _______________________________________________ > gull mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.alphanet.ch/mailman/listinfo/gull
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