Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1698 mails)

[Per Jessen <per@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Roger Oberholtzer wrote:

> On Thu, 2011-12-08 at 12:46 -0500, James Knott wrote:
>
> > Tethering works, but you might also want to consider those "stick"
> > devices for wireless access.  They appear to the computer as a dial
> > up modem and they do work with Linux too.
>
> I have had mixed luck with them. The most common one in Sweden (A
> Huwei from Tele2) almost works with Linux. There are endless
> discussions about it. I even had one on this list a year or so ago.
> But at the end of the day it does not work.

When I bought my USB GSM stick almost two years ago, I ignored all the
Telco "deals" and just went for an "iCON 505M" by Option: 

https://www.distrelec.ch/icon-505m-umts-usb-stick/option/gi1505-11563/847919/it-&-zubeh%C3%B6r

I have not yet bothered with getting it to work with Network Manager, I
just plug it in, run a script, then use minicom for sending AT commands
to dial up. 


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Per Jessen, Zürich (9.4°C)

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