Need usb modem buying advice

robingazi · 10-20-2006, 10:35 PM

Hi, I live in Bangaldesh and the internet I get here is really really poor. I download files around 2kpbs via lan. Its even worse than the dialup of the west. Any way a local cellphone company recently launched a product which looked rather promising. I even used it on a friend's computer and I could download files at 15kpbs. The problem is the product comes with only windows support and I was wondering if debian had any drivers for this or if it's useable in linux at all. It is a USB cdma modem. This is the link to the product http://www.huawei.com/mobileweb/en/p...view.do?id=282

operator10001 · 10-21-2006, 01:06 AM

i personally havent tried that particular brand, but i believe that it will work well with debian.

robingazi · 10-21-2006, 11:55 AM

Will I need to add any modules to my 2.6.16-2 amd64 smp kernel? or will it work automatically. I break my system a lot and if it worked automatially during a fresh debian installation that would be great.

operator10001 · 10-23-2006, 01:51 PM

i am not sure, but, i think so. debian has worked well for every hardware modem that i have tried.