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wnating to get a a broadband dongle for when I go away later this month. Having looked at what is available from the providers it appears that I am limited in terms of reception to going with orange.
has anyone had any experience of getting the orange dongle to work under linux - my netbook has ubuntu 9.04 installed on it - have done some reading and some say that they work easily and other folk say no. easy as plug and play or more convoluted?
(dont really want to go with windows xp if I can help it, but could if it meant having net access when away)
also why do these companies not do drivers for linux fir these dongles - they seem happy to push linux based netbooks on promo with them.
IME, all the USB dongles are all made by the same company - Huawei - usb product id 1003 vendor id 12d1 (you can easily check this with lsusb). I've not had to get the Orange one working but I'd assume it's the same as the 3, Vodafone, o2 ones. They require minimal hacking to get working. Look for something called E220activator. To use that you'll need to add a simple udev rule that calls it when the modem is plugged in.
I got a 3G one to work just plug and play, it didn't go at the full speed mode (can't remember what it's called) but I'm sure it would be easy enough to set up properly
[url= http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Speed_Downlink_Packet_Access ]HSDPA[/url]the full speed mode