[olug] Cricket Internet

[Dan Linder]

The USB ones usually show up as a USB serial port with a modem attached. A
co-worker with a USB Sprint card just plugged it into his Fedora laptop and
it "Just Worked" like a regular network adapter.

Hope this works for you.  Good luck!

Dan

On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 12:02 PM, Jon Larsen <relayer at levania.org> wrote:

>
> Before you plug the adapter into the laptop, do a
> 'tail -f /var/log/messages' in a terminal to watch to see if it's
> recognized.
>
> We were testing one of the cricket adapters a week or so ago for a
> co-worker's windows laptop.  We had to use the provided cricket software
> in windows to setup a vpn connection for pptp, however we didn't have much
> luck getting the vpn to work.
>
> I can't remember if I plugged it into my fedora laptop or not.  However,
> if it is recognized, NetworkManager should see it and allow you to
> configure it.  I have tried two different verizon adapters, one pcmcia and
> the other usb (black model).  Both were picked up and easily
> configured with NetworkManager without a hitch.
>
> One thing you can do with NetworkManger these days is share your
> cellular internet over your wifi card, in effect creating a hotspot.
>
> Jon L.
>
>
> On Sat, 7 Mar 2009, T. J. Brumfield wrote:
>
> > Date: Sat, 7 Mar 2009 20:53:57 -0600
> > From: T. J. Brumfield <enderandrew at gmail.com>
> > Reply-To: Omaha Linux User Group <olug at olug.org>
> > To: Omaha Linux User Group <olug at olug.org>
> > Subject: [olug] Cricket Internet
> >
> > Has anyone here used Cricket's cellular internet on Linux?  I'm
> > setting up a laptop for my sister, and she has one of Cricket's
> > cellular internet adapters.  However, officially it isn't supported on
> > Linux.  I was going to give her an openSUSE based laptop, but I'm not
> > sure if she'll be able to get on the interwebs.
> >
> > To be honest, I've never used a cellular adapter in linux period.  I'm
> > hoping openSUSE recognizes it.
> >
> > -- T. J. Brumfield
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> > Rewind and what does it show?
> > Could be, the truth it becomes you
> > I'm a seed, wondering why it grows"
> > -- Pearl Jam, Education
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