gregoa's blog
random musings about computers, life, and everything
random musings about computers, life, and everything
2009-02-14 23:03:31 +0100
new toys
I'm playing with my new toys:
I got my OpenMoko Freerunner around 2.5
weeks ago. of course I've installed Debian on it —
& I'm spending so much time with it that I don't have the time to blog about my
successes & failures :) but I guess I will.
today I bought a 3G usb modem & an appropriate SIM card (the yesss!
product sold at hofer [they even had one in stock in the third outlet I
checked {at 17:57}]) — mainly to have a SIM card for my Freerunner without having
to take my regular one out of my communicator :) but of course also to have
mobile internet.
setting up the latter was not much of a hassle; usb_modeswitch doesn't seem
to be necessary (usb_storage fails, so the two modem devices are brought up)
but I have it installed nevertheless.
& regarding the connection: guess what — using pppd (pon/poff
after writing /etc/chatsecrets/yesss & /etc/ppp/peers/yesss) works
better than umtsmon (which works too except that it claims "connection
error" after setting up the connection).
(pppd files & usb-modeswitch/umtsmon packages available on request.
basically there is all available out there "on the intarwebs")
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