Archive for the ‘Networking’ Category

3G, PINs, prompts and pppd

Monday, November 17th, 2008

A recent post by Quintin, and specifically a few comments regarding 3G made me think The primary advice to users looking to use 3G under Linux is to switch off the PIN on the SIM. Well, I’ve posted before on how to make 3G work … but Quintin’s post challenged me to take it to the next level…

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iBurst USB Modem and Linux

Tuesday, September 9th, 2008

Right, so I need to make it work. Right now. And as per usual half the instructions are so distro-specific it’s not even funny. So here is my attempt at providing some distro-neutral (influenced by my Gentoo background) and some pointers to the pitfalls…

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Huawei E220

Wednesday, August 13th, 2008

I don’t really want to even start with this post. This little device has caused me numerous headaches, from as simple as “it simply doesn’t work”, right through to incorrect DNS servers, and even failing VPN connections. Which was the last straw.

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