Try wireless broadband? Re: [plug] looking for a linux-friendly isp

[Coral and Ben]

not quite,

mac is supported but buggy, vista I believe is supported and buggy,

i am using one of their usb 3g modems right now with mandriva, and have 
had great success with it on all but the debian based distros, but be 
aware the modem (or its sim card?) must first be activated on a windows 
computer with the bigpond connection manager software

also the connection manager can be uninstalled (once the modem has been 
activated on a windows computer) and the modem used as a 'dial-up' style 
modem, solving the sharing pains that the connection manager forces onto 
a windows system

Garry wrote:
>
> But you need to be careful of 3G.. Telstra has NextG, which apparently 
> is a type of 3G, but relies on a proprietary connection manager. This 
> was limited to XP last time I looked, Vista ans Mac were not supported 
> so  Linux had no show either.. Maybe that's changed...
>
> Garry
>
>>
>> But the USB wireless 3G modem works fine with linux.
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