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Linux Support for Wireless Laptop Internet?
scubacuda asks: "I'm looking for a good "all you can eat" cellular data plan for my laptop. So far, I've looked into T-mobile, Earthlink, and Verizon's wireless Internet options. Any suggestions on price, availability, and speed? The real kicker for me is Linux support, which, I've been told by all three companies, is NOT available. (Any and all hacks would be greatly appreciated!)" This particular market is still in a great degree of flux, especially with landscape-changing deals like the AT&T/Cingular merger going on in the background and issue of going for cellular or WiFi connectivity service. Are there any wireless carriers that you've been able to get working on a Linux laptop? If so, what did you have to do to attain your wireless laptop nirvana?
HEY there's this great program out there that solves all issues of lack of Linux support or whatnot... ITS CALLED WINDOWS!!!!! go get it boys and girls...
I hate you!
Verizon Wireless is non-union.
Suport me in my quest to make the english language even more less intelligible...
I'm actually using a SonyEriccson GC83 with AT&T Wireless (soon to be Cingular Wireless) to post this right now. I can't comment on its Linux compatability (on Win2k w/ the work laptop), but I doubt it works because it seems to require this strange AT&T software (which is actually pretty nice, let's you control VPN connections eand everything form inside it). Overall the service is pretty quick; I get sustained d/l rates of about 20k per second. Latency seems pretty high though, although I don't have any numbers to back this up. It's about $70/month for unlimited data. Good luck!
I'm able to connect to T-Mobile's GPRS service in FreeBSD 5.3. It's about as fast as a 56k modem, but it works well when you have little choice. The FreeBSD Handbook has a nifty Bluetooth section which among other things explains how to use the Dial-Up Networking service profile.