Hi, I have Suse 11.0 installed on it own hard drive. I have mobile racks so though I have Windows XP 32, Windows XP 64, Windows Vista Ultimate 64 and Suse 11.0 as each has it own hard drive, they are totally un-connected. The problem I have, is that I have a wireless 3.6 Mbps broadband connection which does not support Linux and only supports the Windows XP 32 and Windows Vista Ultimate 64. I am wondering is there any way to download application software from the net via a windows operating system for the Suse as if I could do that I should be able to put it on to a USB flashstick and get it to the Suse that way, well I hope I could.
you can download the software,but, you will run into dependency “hell” eventually. best thing to do would be to get the wireless sorted.is it an unsupported device or an isp who says they don’t support linux ? if the latter, you only need a router that can connect. providing you have ethernet,linux will quite happily connect to the web. then you could sort out wireless. to see if it is supported, post the output of /sbin/lspci -v from a console. or lsusb if a usb device
AAHH ! that type of device. I believe you are correct,in that there are no linux drivers. IIRC, it uses the same technology as a mobile/celular phone. Just on the off chance, could you post the output of lsusb with the device inserted ?
Also, this chappie got it to work in linux,albeit it took a bit of fiddling Linux and the Huawei E169G may be worth a try
Hi
It doesn’t need drivers. As long as you can get the dial-in
information (APN, AT setup etc) from your windows setup. It’s just a
modem and should work with linux.
Hi sorry I was not more descriptive in my first post, the reason being that if it was just a wireless link between the computer and a router, I could no doubt get hold of a wireless link which would support Linux or use some other method of connecting the computer to the router, and failed to realize that because I know this, the person answering the query would not know I was aware of such issues, so my fault for any confusion caused.
It is interesting to know that there is a possability to adapt this device to support Linux but for me I think I will leave it as it is, as I have spent about the best part I would say of thirty hours on the telephone to Three’s technical support in Bombay in order to try and get the thing to work effectively with my Windows operating systems, except Windows XP 64 which it does not support ]. So I am happy enough that it is at least working effectively with Windows after a huge effort.
To be more specific there is no great issue to get to work with Windows it is pretty much plug and play the issue is trying to get decent download from it, and that’s what had me on the phone to Bombay. Bye the way I live in Ireland, and no doubt there are differences e.g. on the backhaul as say compared to the UK, so UK users of this device may be different experiences.
Thanx Malcolm and Delta for the links, it would have taken me literally days of Googleing to find them, but since I never have had a Linux instilation before 3 days ago, adapting it to take the Huewei would likely damage what I have left of a brain, but when I get more confident with the Linux I may do it. As the HSDPA technology gets more popular it is likely that 3rd parties will start offering cards that will fit in the PCI and PCI express slots at the back of PC and it is likely such cards will support Linux as standard. There is one card available at the moment I don’t know if it supports Linux but it is way too expensive and usually the prices of these things drop like a stone once they go mass-market.
Hi
I would suggest you look at running a virtual machine in windows
(virtualbox, vmware server) and install linux. You can then test an
application and download the files and dependiences, which you could
then copy to the usb drive for use in your main linux setup. Nothing
worse the booting into linux and finding you need to reboot and go and
get an 18Kb file that is a dependancy…
The other option is to rsync the whole repo for your architecture so
they are available on a usb external drive.
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Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
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I know it would be a pathetic bodge, but I would sooner leave the modem itself alone as if I break that, bang goes my internet so I would like to explore the possability of downloading via windows. You are exactly right to mention “dependacy hell” in that if somebody went ahead via the the Windows route and then ran in to that problem and had not been made aware of it beforehand they might not be a happy camper. But in my case, as this is my first Linux, I pretty much reckoned it would get screwed-up anyway after not long and I would do a complete nothing carried over fresh install, so I don’t really care if the applications software and even the operating system on the Linux drive get in to some problem because of the Windows download bodge. Also because all the drives and their operating systems are seperate, the Linux can get messed without it upsetting any thing else.
Hi Malcolm, I am not well up on Virtual machines, I do have a Windows XP 32 runing as a guest on my Windows Vista 64 with the Windows Vista 64 acting the host and the specific virtual machine I am using is the one supplied by Microsoft, okay it is free from Microsoft, but the laugh is that Whilst Vista 64 using microsoft’s own virtualization software can act as host to a Windows XP 32 guest, it can’t support Windows XP 64 as a guest, now hows that for dumb ],. Yep, but if I have understood you correctly, the only advantage of runing a Linux as a guest in a Windows host instillation under virtualization software would be I could test the application software there first there before installing it on the standalone Linux drive?
Hi
I’m not sure how VPC is going with linux support. But VMware server and
virtual box are also free and will probably have no issues with
64bit support
Correct on your understanding. If it’s not a package that needs 3D
video support to run, you will have a list of the files (which should
be cached on your virtual machine) that can then be copied off to a USB
drive and then copied over.
At a later stage you could also build your own cd/dvd of the files as
your own repository via YaST Add on creator.
I have a small NAS on my home network which may be another alternative
to copy the files too…?
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Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
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