On Sunday 01 May 2011 15:42:34 stuart@bolin.org.uk wrote:
It depends on what brand of modem he is using I personally use a myfi from 3 as its easier to connect via wifi to mobile broadband.
They cost about 40 quid and can be paired with 4 wifi devices at one time.
Huwaiee mobile broadband dongles I haved used with knetworkmanager before but zte ones I have never got them to work.
Stuart Sent from my BlackBerry® smartphone
-----Original Message----- From: Peter Nikolic
Date: Sun, 1 May 2011 14:59:53 To: Subject: [opensuse] Broadband dongles again Hi one for the Broadband dongal people
I have installed OS11.4 i586 on an eMachines eM250 KAV60 basically it works well the network card was found the Wireless is a Broadcom so took the normal furtling to get it working all well and dandy BUT the bloke who's machine it is lives in an area where broadband is next to non existant so he uses a MobileBroadband Dongal on the 3 Network (very good signal with him) , My question is can this be configured to just work via network manager when it is plugged in and if so how cus so far the setup has completely eluded me i have similar problems with my laptop on OS11.3 64 bit mine i can handle but this bloke knows didely squat and just wants to do a windows plug and go help needed please
Pete Hi .
Well it is an Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. E620 USB Modem using umtsmon i can get it to connect but i cant get a route out to the net but i would like because the owner is not a computer orientated type to have it just connect when plugged in and get the route out correct i van get untsmon to automatically connect but this route out thing is a real killer , this has been a problem since 11.3 and i know prople say it is easy well maybe it is but i cant find out how so people that say it is easy spill the beans fully because so far it is a linux killer for a lot of people Pete -- Powered by openSUSE 11.3 (x86_64) Kernel: 2.6.34.8-0.2-desktop KDE Development Platform: 4.6.00 (4.6.0) 17:19 up 1 day 9:05, 5 users, load average: 0.02, 0.12, 0.14 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org