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[teferi]

Dear Lazyweb,

Tell me about 3G [edit: yes, of course I mean cell modem] USB dongles and (Ubuntu) Linux

Love and kisses, Adam

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[cursim]

you plug it in, then ubuntu mounts it and makes you a delicious cappucino

[pyrop]

I had a date like that once.

[halkeye]

3G as wireless thing
or 3Gb capacity.

I know little about either, but i was confused.

[dormando]

most of them just show up as serial usb (ttyUSB0/etc) and then you get a special chat script to dial up with it. Some (like my novatel usb727) first show up as a cdrom drive, which I inject, then the serial devices pop up.

The one non linux compatible thing was registering the device, which I had to do on my mac. haven't needed a windows or mac thingie since.

... assuming you're talking about cellular wireless devices :P

[bz2]

Folks, "3G dongle" pretty universally refers to a wireless device. They're not that hard to make work under Linux, I've heard, they're generally serial devices.

[butter_fly_]

love and kisses, huh?