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On Thu, 2007-12-20 at 18:29 +0000, Simon Williams wrote: > Rob Beard wrote: > > I see that 3 are now offering mobile broadband to Pay As You Go > > customers. It is £10 a month for 1GB allowance. Although it's not as > > attractive as home broadband, it certainly would be useful for anyone > > who has a laptop (or EeePC) and wants to check e-mail, do basic web > > browsing whilst away from home. > > > > Thing is, no doubt it will only officially support Windows and maybe Mac > > (I haven't checked this out so I'm guessing on this). Does anyone know > > if these modems will work on Linux? Urmm...I've got a feeling that network manager 0.7 has planned support for these kinds of devices. Try this page as a starting point for finding more details: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/FeatureNetworkManager If I'm right, then when 0.7 is stable it will make it super easy to use these! Best wishes, Jon -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html