Re: [SLUG] On thinking about a Wireless Broadband USB Modem
The new network manager applet in Ubuntu 8.10 handles these beautifully. I tried my "3" Huawei E169G modem in Jeff's laptop at the November SLUG. It took about 60 seconds to get it online. I used to Use a Bigpond Maxon BP3-USB modem with a much earlier Ubuntu. it was easy to get going, but the drivers for more than 0.5Mbit required a kernel rebuild. Not sure what newer versions are like, as I don't use Bigpond anymore. Bnh 2009/1/17 : > I'd like to use a USB Modem, however I'm told > that there are problems in using them with Linux. > (Linux, note, rather than a specific distro.) > > Has anybody used one with Linux? I don't believe I'm the only one. > I'd like to use it with a Laptop running Intrepid. > > Any help/advice etc., > > Bill Bennett. > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] [OT] PowerShell slow
Erik de Castro Lopo's sig says:
> Powershell is slow. Exceedingly slow. I didn't think speed would be
> a factor in a shell until I used Powershell. The Unix shell tools are
> literally hundreds, if not thousands of times faster than the equivalent
> Powershell commands."
> http://reddit.com/r/programming/info/6cgne/comments/c03h3h7
I'd ne'er heard of PowerShell so I investigated. It is Mickeysoft's latest
addition to the Whacky World of Windows, yet another attempt to get it right,
only they got it wrong.
PowerShell is indeed really slow. But of course if you know Windows, you'd know
how to speed it up:
Set-Alias ngen @(
dir (join-path ${env:\windir} "Microsoft.NET\Framework") ngen.exe -recurse |
sort -descending lastwritetime
)[0].fullName
[appdomain]::currentdomain.getassemblies() | %{ngen $_.location}
Obviously!
Further reading indicates the many opt for Unix Tools on Windows.
cheers
rickw
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Re: [SLUG] On thinking about a Wireless Broadband USB Modem
wbenn...@turing.une.edu.au wrote: > I'd like to use a USB Modem, however I'm told > that there are problems in using them with Linux. > (Linux, note, rather than a specific distro.) Quite frankly, this is rubbish. One of the really nice things about USB is that any device that connects via USB can have its bus snooped (on a windows machine if necessary) and have its protocol deciphered. In the absence of encryption (which I have never seen or heard of on a USB device) its even trivial. > Has anybody used one with Linux? Yes, I've used a number of them (Unwired, Telstra 3G, others) but never for anything more than testing. With something recent like intrepid many of these things work out of the box. When they don't they can often be made to work by someone knowledgable. The vast majority of these devices simply emulate an RS 232 port over USB and use the Hayes AT modem control protocol. You best bet is to take your laptop to a shop that has these modem devices, plug one into your laptop and capture the output of lsusb -vvv grab the USB product/vendor ID and and then Google for that ID and Linux. Erik -- - Erik de Castro Lopo - "Powershell is slow. Exceedingly slow. I didn't think speed would be a factor in a shell until I used Powershell. The Unix shell tools are literally hundreds, if not thousands of times faster than the equivalent Powershell commands." -- http://reddit.com/r/programming/info/6cgne/comments/c03h3h7 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] On thinking about a Wireless Broadband USB Modem
I'd like to use a USB Modem, however I'm told that there are problems in using them with Linux. (Linux, note, rather than a specific distro.) Has anybody used one with Linux? I don't believe I'm the only one. I'd like to use it with a Laptop running Intrepid. Any help/advice etc., Bill Bennett. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
