Mobile broadband

[karen2205]

I could do with a PAYG mobile broadband thingy to use with my Eee PC, and this offer from Vodaphone looks reasonable, but says it only works on Windows machines. Does anyone know whether it would work with a linux based Eee PC and if not any alternative PAYG mobile broadband deals that do work with Eee PCs?

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[noodles]

I believe it's a Huwaei E220 dongle which is supported by the "option" driver under Linux. It really comes down to what Linux distro you're running on the EEE; I'm pretty sure the Ubuntu netbook remix will Just Work with Network Manager.

http://www.we-u.com/?p=426 seems to suggest it'll also Just Work on the EEE Xandros setup.

There's also a Vodafone Betavine project for their dongles, which might mean more work setting it up but does look to have suitable drivers:

https://forge.betavine.net/projects/vodafonemobilec/

I have an Orange 3G dongle (Icon 225, on a contract) for my EEE 901, but I'm running Debian and building my own kernels so it's not quite as easy a solution (I think mainline support is a lot better than when I first got it a year ago though).