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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>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 > -- Kessia Pinheiro Computer Science Student - Brazil, UFBa Linux System Administrator Arch Linux Trusted User Linux User #389695 http://even.archlinux-br.org --- X Fórum Internacional Software Livre - fisl10 24 a 27 de junho de 2009 PUCRS - Porto Alegre - Brasil
