Hey James,
2009/2/9 James Taylor jmon.monster@googlemail.com:
Lo all, long time reader, haven't posted in a while, but for once a serious question (passed on from a friend). He's bought himself a net book running Linux and a broadband dongle, but is having some problems:
"I have been and bought a mobile broadband dongle today from O2, It is a Huawei E160 but the Xandros does not see it."
My sister has one of those. I think she also had problems using it on the Acer Aspire One. I plugged it into my Slackware laptop, and it worked straight away out of the box. Shows how awesome Slackware is.
AFAIK, the device is first detected as a CD-ROM, and you just unmount it and you then have a bunch of USB to serial converters representing the 3G modem.
I seem to remember the Acer kernel was quite old and had problems detecting the 3G stick as a modem... but my newer and shinier Slackware machine did detect it.
I think there was a kernel module missing, and I wasnt sure if the box had all the toolchain for me to build a new kernel (and I ran out of time).
Maybe an online update will install a newer kernel and fix this?
Hope that helps/gives insight
Srdjan