2008/5/13 Anthony Anson tony.anson@zetnet.co.uk:
After a very long absence I've a huge number of ALUG items to look through, so now I'm back online (c/o a Vodafone broadbean dongle) I'll be going through the backlog of more than two years and maybe asking questions which have been covered before if they come up before I get to their discussion.
The first of these questions is, has anyone written a script to drop into Linux of any flavour to allow it and the aforementioned Vodafone dongle to talk to each other?
Vodaphone have a python GUI to do just that. I can't remember the url off the top of my head but googling should find it. I'm actually using it under debian on my EeePC with the same dongle but supplied by 3.
I think the only real magic is a program supplied with the script which somehow coaxes the device to show it's usb serial devices. The rest of the script just sets up normal ppp to a GSM serial modem.
I guess you could extract that part from the tarball and then just use the normal dialup stuff on the standard Xandros Eeepc install if you wanted.
JD