On 26 October 2012 15:05, Nick Rout wrote: > GRRRR I have a router that Hadley kindly supplied post quake that can > take a white 2 degrees usb modem to supply internet for the whole > office when your normal wan is down. Very useful it was when the > phones and adsl were unavailable. > > Last weekend we moved back into the city and knowing we would be > without adsl for a couple of days while telstra shifted us, I looked > for the white 2 degrees stick. Couldn't find the bloody thing so went > out and bought one of the black ones, which is twice the speed. > Bugger, it didn't work in that router, so had to find a white one, > which 2 branches of whorehouse stationery didn't have, ended up at the > two degrees store in riccarton mall to get the white one. > > So the lesson is, these things are not all equal, particularly if you > have something like a router you can't do anything to change. By the > way the 2 degrees white one is a Huawei E1552.
I have the same problem. The white one works out of the box with Linux Mint. The black one doesn't. If anyone has got the black one to work I'd like to hear about it. Yuri de Groot. _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.canterbury.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
