At Tue, 20 Feb 2007 it looks like Adolph & Sharon Weidanz composed: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Jay Smith wrote: > > > > On Mon Feb 12 15:42 , Nick Zentena sent: > > > > = > >> Might help if you mentioned carrier and type of service. > >> > > > > You are right, I am currently looking at VZW and their Broadband Access. > > > > > > Jay.. > > Sorry I was seem to be asleep on the job ;^) I have been using the > Sierra Aircard 860 using Cingulars ~60/month service under Suse 10.1 for > over a year now. They recently updated my service (in CT) so now I am > getting around 50 - 100 KBytes/sec on large downloads. On 10.1 I had to > add the card to the kernel (serial_cs.c) or I could have renamed the > driver 850 and that was already in the kernel. I assume that the 860 is > already in the kernel that is being used for 10.2. Nice thing about the > 860 is that it has an external antenna. because of the distance to the > water I have an antenna about 20 feet up and picked a bunch of db ( > can't remember exactly but it was worth it). > > > The only negative I have on the service is that 25% of the time when I > am downloading podcasts using amarok the whole systems seems to go into > limbo. Only takes a second to reset it. I haven't spent the time to > figure it out yet as not really an issue. > > On the hardware side I have 2 negatives. the first is I cannot find a > router that will support the 860 (Other then the Top Global MB6000/8000) > for a decent price. The MB6000 is ~300. > > The second issue is that although it works great in the laptop and I do > sharing so the desktop can use it, I have not been able to get the > desktop along with PCMCIA/PCI adapter (One that is supposed to work). I > will say I haven't tried for a while and was sorta waiting until I moved > to 10.2 (or finding a cheap router) to try again... > > There is a pretty good 'Cool Solution' on Novell's site on setting the > 860 up with 10.1.. > (http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/feature/17191.html) Just sub the > 860 for the 775. > > > > I am one of those that really didn't have a choice, as the marina that > we currently live at does not have phone or cable run on the docks... > And I have major philosophical problems with the satellite companies > charging all that money just to bandwidth cap or in one case have in > their eula, kick you off the service. Sorry I'll get off the soapbox ;^) > > If you have any questions or need any help feel free to email me... >
Good Post! I have a (Cingular) "Sierra AirCard_875" and running SuSE-9.3 thru SuSE-10.2 on various laptops that I have dual and triple booted with Windows-2000 (and FreeBSD) and would "LOVE" to get it running on SuSE. I see the above post states the 860 and 775, hoping the 875 will work. -- Bill Schoolcraft <*> http://wiliweld.com ~ "Unix is very simple, but it takes a genius to understand the simplicity." (Dennis Ritchie) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
