[Tfug] why not wicd

[Jim March]

On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 11:18 AM, erich <erich1 at copper.net> wrote:
> That's what I'm focused on now,
>
>                 I have a Cricket A600 cellular modem, and I'm trying to
> integrate it
> with Gentoo. Do you know anything more about Network Manager?
>
>
>                              Cheers,
>
>                              Erich

Well...I've been using NM with so far three different Verizon cellmodem devices.

Under Karmic there's this neat pop-up the first time it detects your
cellmodem, asking which carrier you're on and if necessary, any
additional setup details that some carriers require.  Most don't.  If
you use a cellmodem in Linux with shell scripts (PPP) you have to
include a "username" and "password" but they're not actually used on
most systems; your real "personal authentication" comes from the phone
number hardwired into the cellmodem device.

I'm pretty sure that's how Cricket works, I checked them out once as a
possible cheaper alternative.

Upshot: any distro with NM8 in it is going to be by far the best for cellmodems.

Jim