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Mobile with Ubuntu
I've been more or less stuck with using Windows on my laptop for a long time because I get online using mobile broadband, which is plug&play in Windows but not with Linux.
I finally got around to tracking down a web page that covers how to connect, and (Despite the weird and painful way the network manager messes around in Ubuntu lately) I got the modem working.
Initially, there was no DNS - as the page says, the ISP's own DNS seems not to work. But luckily, I know the IP address for this website, to which I have SSH access. And links is installed. So I was able to gain full web access remotely, google the solution - sort out bind9 - and am now fully up and running on Ubuntu using mobile broadband.
Yay!
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Before that I would fall back to manual configuration but with 8.10, I just renamed my old /etc/network/interfaces and started over, everything came up nicely: Broadband, lo, fixed IP networks or DHCP network roaming with passwords safely in seahorse...
Just give it a try, it finally works!
The weirdness to which I refer is more to do with the way that it tells me it's not connected to the internet when it is, the way it checks and unchecks boxes on its own, the way I can't always turn of wireless, and other such fun and entertaining features.
It's not often I feel driven to reboot a Linux computer to try and fix a problem, but the network manager has had me try this once or twice...
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