[arch-general] Access to 3g wireless network

[Kessia 'even' Pinheiro]

Mauricio,

I'm from Brazil too, part of Arch Linux Brasil team. Please, shows up in
#archlinux-br at irc.freenode.org, maybe anyone can help you more fast. If
not, came to archlinux-br list at google groups.

Best.

On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 8:44 PM, richard terry <rterry at pacific.net.au>wrote:

> On Mon, 20 Apr 2009 09:26:25 am Maurí­cio wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Here in Brazil (as probably in everywhere
> > else) a few cell phone companies are offering
> > wireless internet access through a USB modem.
> > They say data is exchanged through 3G communication
> > standard.
> >
> > How does that work on Linux? What should I have
> > in archy to be able to work with such hardware
> > and network, or where can I find about it?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Maurício
>
> In AU I've got a huawei   e169  which works ok, though I will admit I had
> some
> trouble configuring it (see below) and the WIKI contains info on the e220
> which is sort-of-applicable.
>
> So that's all I can help you with, if you figure it out all properly let me
> know. I've spent mega-hours on the forums looking for good solutions to the
> comments below:
>
> The problem I have is that I'm not that knowledable computer wise and I run
> my
> laptop on dhcp during the daytime at work and then as  I don't know what
> I'm
> really doing I have to manually change the config files at home and the
> resolv.conf which is a pain.
>
> I've tried following the wiki entries re net-profiles etc to no avail.
>
> So I'll add my voice to yours and request that anyone who does understand
> this
> write a better wiki article on how to combine usb-key broadband + wired
> broadband automatically.
>
> Regards
>
> Richard
>
>
> I
>



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Kessia Pinheiro
Computer Science Student - Brazil, UFBa
Linux System Administrator
Arch Linux Trusted User
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