On Tue, Nov 13, 2007 at 10:50:59PM -0700, Tom Patton wrote:
On Sun, 2007-11-11 at 11:50 -0700, Tom Patton wrote:
I am considering the Sierra (USB) Air Card 595U as it has an external antenna connection. (I am 7 miles from a tower, and beyond DSL or cable)
Well, Folks! I am pleased to report that the Sprint/Sierra AC595U is working beautifully on opensuse 10.2, following a very simple modprobe restart to the serial driver. I am in the sticks, and getting a rather solid 22kB/s, with no external antenna...that will improve, I'm sure. Sprint tells me they are scheduled to upgrade this location to EV-DO next May. As it is, it sure beats the dial-up rate I had of 3.6 kB!
Hm, why did you need to modprobe anything? It should all "just work". Can you send the output of 'lsusb' with the device plugged in? If you are going to stick to 10.2, I'll see if I can just update a simple driver so that you can actually get some real data rates :) thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org