Bryce Robilliard wrote:
> I was wondering if the SLUG knew of any ISPs that support the use of a
> wireless broadband service for Linux, or if there were any drivers out
> there for the various USB, PCMCIA and ExpressCard devices for the
> wireless broadband services.
Most of it works.
In my day job, we have used :
- The about to be terminated Telstra EVDO network.
- The current Telstra NextG network.
- Unwired.
- A couple of other local services whose names I forget.
- A couple of services in the US.
For the second one, I blogged about getting it running here:
http://www.mega-nerd.com/erikd/Blog/Tech/telstra_nextg.html
> Whether there is support out there (for GNU/Linux) or not as yet, can
Yes. After the initial pain of setting it up for the first time
with zero information form the service providers, it usually
works better on Linux than it does on windows.
All of the devices I have seen are either USB or PCMCIA. With
either of these options, they usually show up as a USB serial
port and pppd talks to them quite happily. The difficulty is
figuring out the negotiation sequence for the carrier (each one
seems to be slightly different).
> anyone recommend a wireless broadband plan?
Sorry, can't hel there. I've never even *seen* any of the
billing for these things, that all goes directly to accounts :-).
> I update my
> cricket club website, so I'd like to use the time on the train to do
> this.
Do you really need to be online to do updates? Can't you tweak
and review on a local test version on a local web server (ie local
to your laptop) and then just push to the live server when you're
happy with it and have a net connection?
Cheers,
Erik
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