Matthew Palmer wrote:
That page doesn't give exact model numbers, so it's hard to tell. It
certainly looks more like the one I didn't get (Huawei brand, I think?); the
Merlin I got has the SIM slot toward the back of the card. Both of them
work fine with Dapper, though -- they appear to the
I hope those drivers have gotten a *lot* better since I used them about a
year ago -- they were horrendous back then. If you're considering getting
iBurst, get a trial period first. Between the shithouse drivers and woeful
coverage (I rarely got a useable signal) it wasn't worth it for me to
Matthew Palmer wrote:
I've got a Vodafone 3G (Merlin) card through work and it works nicely -- a
bit fiddly to setup, perhaps, but doable. A client I've been at has the
other model of Vodafone 3G card and it works in Ubuntu Dapper, but not
earlier versions -- so you'll need a pretty new kernel
