vodafone 3G card and Linux/NetBSD
*BSD, Linux, Networking, Open Source November 19th, 2005In the week I got a vodafone Mobile Connect 3G card courtesy of our IT department, who will be paying for the subscription and first 500MiB of traffic. My notebook currently runs Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 with kernel 2.6.13 and I had no difficulty getting the card working. It was simply a matter of making sure my kernel had support for the Option USB card (I have the Option 3G Quadlite card), inserting the card and configuring my PPP connection.
Some useful links:
- vodafone 3G on Linux, which includes Alan Barrett’s info on getting it working under NetBSD.
- MyADSL Linux 3G HOWTO.
November 20th, 2005 at 12:39 am
Wow, that’s very leet. A 3G-enabled Linux laptop. Which laptop is it exactly and what’s your experience with ACPI S3 suspend to RAM? (this used to be the killer feature that Linux just couldn’t cleanly handle on many modern laptops)
November 20th, 2005 at 11:05 am
I have a Compaq Evo N620c, which is not the newest (I’ve had it for around 2 years now). To be honest, my ACPI is not working 100% yet – I need to fix my DSDT before suspend to RAM will work. It’s still on my TODO list (along with getting suspend to disk working).
Things may have been easier if I used a Debian-supplied kernel, but I prefer rolling my own (which means lots of patches to get everything working properly, but let me not get started…).