Has anyone had any experience with the NetZero Stick? The NetZero site says that it is 'Linux' compatible, but gives no detailed information (eg distributations, kernel version, driver name/version, etc.).
I am running a stock CentOS 5.11 kernel (2.6.18-398.el5) on my 32-bit laptop (IBM Thinkpad X31, with a non-PAE processor, so upgrading to CentOS 6 is not an option, and no, I don't want to install Ubuntu on this machine). I don't have any flavor of MS-Windows installed.
My other options are the NetZero Hotspot (a MiFi device) or Virgin Mobile's Netgear Mingle Mobile Hotspot (another MiFi device). NetZero does not list Linux as a supported O/S, nor does Virgin Mobile -- I am not sure what that means, since the MiFi device are pretty much just like a typical (wired) wireless router, except instead of a Ethernet uplink (eg to a DSL or Cable Modem or something like that) it has a celluar uplink. I am *presuming* that these MiFi devices are configured via a web interface (eg http://192.168.1.1/ or some such with some default username/password).
On Wed, 5 Nov 2014 16:55:18 -0500 Robert Heller wrote:
Has anyone had any experience with the NetZero Stick?
I have no experience with that MiFI device, but I have used some other brands (including a Huawei e5, which I happen to have on a shelf right here). All of the devices that I've seen to date work like any standard wireless router. It shows up as a wireless hotspot that you can connect to with your laptop, phone or whatever device that you happen to have.
You can configure it (password, etc) by logging into it with a web browser; it looks just like any other wireless router.
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