[Tfug] why not wicd

[erich]

Thanks for the update.

         There's a third party router manufacturer, (from Dubai of all 
places), That makes
a device that handles cell modems:

                                         http://www.dovado.com/

         In theory they are the ones that handle the interfacing. You 
get the firewalled
RJ-45/ Wifi AP service. They have a list, (mostly European), modems that 
they
support. I sent them an e-mail with photos of that little A600 bugger. Stay
tuned.


                                                                                                                
Erich


Jim March wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 9:11 AM, erich <erich1 at copper.net> wrote:
>   
>> I have another question,
>>
>>                And it's about cellular modems. Can you purchase a generic
>> USB modem other
>> than the one your licensed wireless provider gives you?
>>     
>
> Ummm...usually not.  BUT Cricket might be an exception.  For example,
> I know they can use the Kyocera KPC650 modem (per their website), a
> PCMCIA device I used to own on the Verizon network.  I now use a
> KPC680 Expresscard device...which I'd be willing to bet Cricket might
> support.  At least, it would appear they can use Verizon-similar cell
> frequencies...that's a start.
>
> But don't give up on the A600 yet - keep reading!
>
>   
>> I know the phone #
>> for
>> the wireless modem service. However we're running into the "Windoze 0 CD
>> experience"
>> A Cricket A600 comes up looking like a USB storage device. I have to figure
>> out
>> how to switch it to a USB serial device "/dev/ttyUSBx". It would be nice if
>> these
>> things were generic serial devices that would connect with a simple phone #
>>
>>
>>                                    Erich
>>               Jim March wrote:
>>     
>
> Funny you should mention all this right now.  Literally yesterday I
> was at the Cricket store with Rocco from this list, checking out, you
> guessed it, the A600.
>
> There IS apparently a cure for what ails it in Linux.
>
> First thing, you have to ask one of the better stores (read: any that
> have a laptop with Windoze and an A600 on display) to do the card
> update process the first time (or see last paragraph for an
> alternative).
>
> Second, I tried the A600 in my Karmic A6 lappy with the hope that this
> issue has been sorted out in the release candidate Network Manager .8.
>  Sigh.  Nope.  But that's not a showstopper yet.  Here's some "Ubuntu"
> instructions that don't appear to me to be Ubuntu-specific...should
> work in dang near anything:
>
> http://www.ubuntugeek.com/how-to-setup-cricket-wireless-a600-broadband-modem-in-ubuntu.html
>
> Note that in the comments, there's a way to make this script run
> whenever the rig encounters the A600.
>
> Finally, you do have to once in a while (every three months on average
> under Verizon, or whenever you see performance dropping a bit)
> re-initialize these things with a Windows (or Mac) app.  You may be
> able to get that working in Wine, or more likely you'll do like me and
> run it under a Windoze virtual machine.  I use the Virtualbox "full
> tilt edition" downloaded from their site (rather than the open source
> version out of Ubuntu's repos) and do USB pass-through.  When you do,
> at least in NM8/Karmic I have to kill network-manager first or it'll
> hold open access to the device under Windows and block Virtualbox from
> passing it through to Windows.  But that's no biggie.  You can't be
> connected to the Internet with the device while at the same time
> updating it in a Windows VM.  If you don't want to do the VM thing,
> just bring it back to the Cricket store once in a while and initialize
> it there.
>
> Jim
>
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