Has anyone tried using their mobile unlimited hardware from swisscom or sunrise (pcmcia or usb dongle) with any linux distro?

-thanks

There are several sites like this which turn up using this search. Good luck.

Hi,

I used an Orange dongle with my Asus eeepc (which runs some flavor of debian), worked very well.

I recently switched to Swisscom mobile unlimited - but haven't checked if it works on Ubuntu. I'll give it a try and post again in a couple of minutes.

Peter

Ok, this was easy - I just tried my Swisscom USB dongle (I have the Sierra Wireless Compass 885) with Ubuntu (9.04). Worked immediately without any kind of setup - I plugged it in, it got recognized, showed up in the network tab, I hit "connect" and it worked!

regards,

Peter

Thanks again Peter.

I also have an eeepc and a dell inspiron both running in intrepid and swisscom unlimited connected. But when i upgraded to jaunty it does not work. My eeepc is now running cruncheee.

Cool. Maybe i should install jaunty from scratch then.

Do you have the same dongle? I think Swisscom sells quite a variety of different ones. I remember asking for one that works on Mac OS and got the Compass (that's the black one with the SD-card) - perhaps others don't work so well

Peter

i still use the old pcmcia card, the swisscom unlimited 5-1 hsdpa