That's a good point about the power requirements. I had not even considered that.
The link to jasons.org was one of the two links from fedoraforum.org that I used to get the connection with the laptop working. I'll continue heading along that path. On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 09:43, John B. Holmblad <[email protected]>wrote: > Vagabond Aero, > > you may need an external power injector to drive the USB modem. As I > understand it from previous messages on this list (circa late 2007^1 ), the > N800 and N810 can only deliver between 100ma and 200ma to the interface. > > Here, in case it helps you out. is the url to an article on how to do this > using Ubuntu on a pc/notebook/netbook: > > > http://www.jasons.org/2008/09/02/howto-verizon-um175-usb-evdo-card-under-ubuntu-hardy/ > > > 1. See email on this list from [email protected] dated 10/24/2007 > > > Best Regards, > > > > John Holmblad > > > > Acadia Secure Networks, LLC > > > > > Vagabond_Aero wrote: > >> I am a new (~30 hours) owner of a N810 that I like very much. One of the >> uses I hoped to do with this is connect with my wireless Verizon broadband >> modem (UM175) and get access when I am outside my wifi zones, like I >> currently do with my linux laptop. Since wvdial does not exist in /usr/bin, >> it looks like I may have to attempt to build it myself. Before I head down >> that path, has anyone else set up a connection with these types of modems? >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> maemo-users mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users >> >> >
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