Wireless Internet, non 802.11
Someone brought a PC Card to the last Seattle Wireless hacknight. A few times since I've been stuck without internet. I do have a USB cable for my nokia phone, but my phone is without many features and even the "medianet" is broken, likely since I've moved and haven't upgraded the service configuration since I lived in Maine, but kept the same phone. Getting the account switched was a hassle by the way and if you ever need to do this, stand in a cingular store (an offical one, not a reseller) until it's complete.
Cingular says they have UMTS coverage in Seattle, and lists the following cards in their store:
Sierra Wireless Aircard 860
Novatel U730
Option GT Max
Sony Ericsson GC83 (Refurb)
There's some information on Sierra Wireless's website about hacking the earlier version of their card for Linux, but nothing about the new one. There is a note in this cingular forum where someone got the Aircard working in Linux (the forum is about getting these cards working in OSX however). Does anyone have UMTS experience with Cingular? If it just comes down to being a serial device that emulates AT commands and you use PPP, it should work with anything, but I've never touched one before.
Cingular says they have UMTS coverage in Seattle, and lists the following cards in their store:
Sierra Wireless Aircard 860
Novatel U730
Option GT Max
Sony Ericsson GC83 (Refurb)
There's some information on Sierra Wireless's website about hacking the earlier version of their card for Linux, but nothing about the new one. There is a note in this cingular forum where someone got the Aircard working in Linux (the forum is about getting these cards working in OSX however). Does anyone have UMTS experience with Cingular? If it just comes down to being a serial device that emulates AT commands and you use PPP, it should work with anything, but I've never touched one before.
posted by btm at 1:15 PM
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I get strange errors with cables in ubuntu. I haven't really played with it yet much. I know southern maine had something, Jason used to have it a long time ago, but I can't even recall what it was. For his palm pilot.
I'm going to install Ubuntu on my laptop today, have either of you played with WPA2 on them yet? Orinoco won't do it, but the Netgear should. Of course, I have a friend who uses Ubuntu with WPA2 with the same WG511T card I have, and all he has are complaints.
I installed Ubuntu Dapper from current a week or so ago. I have not used WPA2 with the Netgear, which I'm all but convinced it is broken at this point. I did successfully using WPA with wpa_supplicant.
The orinoco is supposed to do WPA, but you have to compile agere's modules with wpa_supplicant I believe. wpa_supplicant says it supports agere, but says something about it not being configured when I try to run it at this time.
Are you intending to install the stable release? I've yet to install it on my laptop, and I'm just going to update beta on this desktop. I think I'll install the stable on my thinkpad.
Today I tried to get Cedega (formerly winex) working on this installation, and I think it works. I just gotta finish installing a game that would work it, put her on the floor and see how she plays sorta thing.
I'll try wpa_supplicant with the Orinoco if I start on that tomorrow. If you do mess with WPA2 on your netgear, you might have to install the new Network package, that's what I heard was done. Well, that and an ndis wrapper, like I said before.
Blog replies are awkward. Oh, btw, I had to actually -make one- in order to reply to this.
http://omgolo.blogspot.com/
i don't think i'll reinstall. the update seems to work okay. i may run something side by side, but I don't have the laptop hardware for XGL I don't think. so I won't tinker with that too much. my laptops are mostly for working on networks and having something to use at SWN hack night when everyone is talking. I've got more drives somewhere, if I can replace this drive in my desktop, maybe I'll install linux on it. I don't have seperate gaming & desktop machines anymore, but I do have the original LT still, and it's just a celeron, but it's.. here. and loud.
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