On Tue, 31 Jul 2012 02:59:15 PM Jobst Schmalenbach wrote:
Get yourself a 3g(4g) WIFI modem (aka Huwei), anybody can connect to that, no drivers required. I share mine with my partner, we have a WinXP laptop, a Fedora Laptop, two GalaxiesII's and two AsusTransformers.
Optus sells them, do not know what brad Telstra's is but I know they have a similar one.
Telstra Sierra Wireless AirCard 760S Telstra Wi-Fi 4G modem works exactly like that, but it has to be activated first. Easy if you can use Windows computer but somewhat tricky if your run Windows-free system. I activated Sierra Wireless AirCard 760S Telstra Wi-Fi 4G modem on Linux mint recently. Most of it was pretty trivial using www.bigpond.4g over Firefox but as is often the case there was one part which was rather tricky - Sierra asks for executionable (Windows or Mac) to be executed! I saved the windows file BPSignMeUp.exe to disc, installed wine and after some tinkering with winecfg managed to run BPSignMeUp.exe enough to allow it to sign with Telstra. Unfortunately, wine did show only buttons "cancel" and "next" and nothing else! So I accepted blindly all options and www.bigpond.4g reported "connected". I had still no access to web but I was able to find in section: advanced settings | WAN | Setup | Add/Edit Profiles | my user name and password - which were obviously default place-holders only. When I substituted my correct user name and password as provided by Telstra Sierra finally worked as it should. All together it is nice that it is possible to get Sierra Wireless AirCard 760S working with common Linux tools only, but it is not entirely easy sailing. Easier way would be to ask in shop for unlocking of modem, it needs to be done only once. Detailed setup is easy with www.bigpond.4g afterwards. Petr -- <pb-luv@baum.com.au> Petr Baum, P.O.Box 2364, Rowville 3178 fax +61-3-97643342 This message was created in naturally virus-free operating system: Linux