The message c1854a7c0805130443m6b035940if9e4a153b21be498@mail.gmail.com from "Jon Dye" jon@pecorous.co.uk contains these words:
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.
Thanks - will investigate.
Same dongle but with a very different chip, if specialists are to be believed.
This dongle works quite nicely on Win 2000, though the destructions with it are older than the software, and it took me several attempts (and the BSOD) to install it properly. Works a dream now. (touches wood)