I live in the country, and I have been trying to get the phone lines upgraded in my area, for eight years. But no such luck. So I have been looking into connecting to the Internet wirelessly through my cell phone. I found it can be done, but all the services only offer it through Windows. Is there a cell phone company out there that offered their services through Linux? Through Bluetooth, air cards, and I even heard through PCI express cards. Any things better than what I got right now. Sometimes I'm lucky if I connect at 14.4. It's getting pretty pathetic. Are there any good connections out there?

I recently saw a Mac user with a Verizon card which gives Internet access using the cell network. (no cell phone involved). If this is available also for Windows, I would assume that the Linux community would eventually produce a driver. In the interim, I wonder if it would work with NDISWrapper?

I would also directly ask Verizon how to set it up on Linux. (Nothing to lose)

Verizon probably won't officially state that they "support" Linux.

But the Verizon cell service definitely works with Linux. I used it about a year ago when Comcast temporarily shut off our service. It's not cheap, though.

It's been done for a while, a few references..

http://www.linux.com/articles/52729

http://kenkinder.com/evdo-pc5740/

http://samat.org/weblog/20070128-spr...ntu-linux.html


Our unlimited Verizon plan was around $60.00 a month and was at least as fast as the T1 here at the office if not a little faster.


I would get the model of the Wireless card the provider offers, and search for the model number and 'Linux' in Google to find compatibility information.

Thank you everybody! I just got Verizon wireless, and it's good to hear that it can be used for Linux. One of the reasons why I haven't been active on this forum, was because my old Internet connection was sooooooo sloooowwwwww. This is much better.
Again thank you for your comments, much appreciated.