Hey hey. On Wed, 2010-01-20 at 20:44 -0800, j blrown wrote: > I've been looking at getting a wireless Broadband Prepaid kit from > either Vodaphone,Optus or Bigpond.
I have experience with Vodafone and Bigpond post-paid wireless broadband on Ubuntu 9.04. The Vodafone dongle works fine. Plugged it in, it was properly detected, I was able to set up a new wireless broadband connection using the Network Manager applet. Using it is simple, just plug it in, and connect using Network Manager. My mother regularly uses a Bigpond dongle on her Eee running the 9.04 netbook remix. I think it's one of the newer style dongles Telstra are using. Setting it up was a little bit more complicated - I had to install and configure the usb_modeswitch tool ( http://www.draisberghof.de/usb_modeswitch/ ), and then wvdial to "dial out" and set up a PPP session through it. Now that's done, though, actually using it is as simple as the Vodafone dongle. Plug in, wait until the light turns blue, double click the wvdial icon. Hope that helps, -- Pete -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
