Lanny Marcus wrote: > On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 1:40 PM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic <office at plnet.rs> wrote: >> Olaf Mueller wrote: >>> I am searching for an internet usb surf-stick (umts) that works under >>> CentOS. Is anyone using such a stick and if so, which chip has this >>> usb-stick? >>> >>> Would a Huawei E160E chip work under CentOS? Or maybe under CentOS with >>> the 2.6.35 kernel from elrepo? >>> Thank you very much! > <snip> >> Visit this page: >> http://pyhumod.ooz.ie/ >> and you will have all of your questions answered. > > Interesting thread and thank you for the above link. I will do some > studying. The cell phone operators here in Colombia (GSM networks) all > sell those things, but they natively work only on Windows and MACs. > When our ADSL goes down, it would be nice to have one of those USB > sticks, for HSDPA connectivity, as a backup. > ------------------------------------------------------ > Lanny I used this here for a while. But now I have Android 2.2 mobile phone and it has wireless tethering (phone acts like wireless AP and redirects to 3G/4G/gprs network) so all I have to do is to (Set an ESSID,) turn it ON and connect my laptop via wireless to the phone. Ljubomir