I am VERY new to the linux environment, and trying to break my windows dependency.
I have recently signed up for mobile wireless internet, where the service provider supplies you with a little USB wireless modem and a few minor details. It is pretty much plug and play on windows, but I cannot get my openSuse OS to recognise it. I am not even sure I am asking it to look in the right places.
Can someone please help me? An online tutorial or very basic step by step instructions would be great!
Thanks for the advice, but I am running KNet… but the device doesn’t plug and play.
I don’t really know anything about kernals and it is frustrating having to re-boot into windows to get on this forum…then of course I can’t see linux and can’t remember names of programs etc…
Any other suggestions? I should have a wireless network up and running at home shortly which will solve all my problems, but in the mean time it would be nice to get this device working.
I do remember that when I first used my usb modem with suse 10.2, I had to treat it more like a dialup modem. This meant configuring with yast modem tool first. IIRC, I think I had to point it at /dev/ttyUSB0 (which I linked to /dev/modem) and set the dialling number to ‘*99#’ as well. After that, I used KInternet to dial out when required.
I use my lovely openSUSE 10.3 on my HP dv8000series. But I have a problem since my express-card HSDPA modem - Bandluxe C100s (once I plug it as USB by external socket using USB), but I stil can’t using it in my openSuse 10.3.
I’ve read several references from UbuntuWiki, but still I can script all commands from it.
Can you tell me how to use this device on my laptop also in my pc using openSuse 10.3 64bit version.