Brendan Cornelius

Hi Guys I recently purchased the Cell C HSDPA USB dongle with 24Gb of data for R1499. Here is how you get it to work on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Plug in your USB dongle. Install "usb_modeswitch" (sudo apt-get install usb_modeswitch). Run "sudo updatedb" Locate "usb_modeswitch.conf" the file should be in /etc/usb_modeswitch.conf and add code below to the end of the file ######################################################## # Huawei E1752 # # Contributor: DefaultVendor= 0x12d1 DefaultProduct= 0x1446 TargetVendor= 0x12d1 TargetProduct= 0x1001 MessageEndpoint= 0x01 MessageContent= "55534243000000000000000000000011060000000000000000000000000000" ######################################################## Run "sudo usb_modeswitch" This should say found one(1) device in the terminal Then go System->Preferences->Network Connections and click on the "Mobile Broadband" tab. Click "Add". Check under "Create a connection fo...

Check out a great book by Jono Bacon, a Community Manager at Ubuntu , called The Art Of Community. Jono is regular co-host on FLOSS Weekly and is also well known from LugRadio. Check out his website .

As a follow up to my last post I thought it would be interesting to post a list of distributions I have tried before settling with the Ubuntu project: Damn Small Linux Kubuntu Xubuntu Mandriva OpenSuse Dream Linux Cent OS Linux Mint Puppy Linux Fedora PC-BSD I would choose OpenSuse as my second option for a solid desktop experience.

If you have been wondering why I chose Ubuntu as my Linux distribution of choice here are a few of reasons why I am an advocate of this project. Ubuntu is sponsored by Canonical , a company founded by Mark Shuttleworth. Mark Shuttleworth was part of the Go Open Source initiative in South Africa five years ago which introduced me to the world of free and open source software. Ubuntu and its variants can be ordered online and delivered within a few weeks, free of charge, in South Africa. A service which helped me when I had no immediate access to the internet to download the ISO's The Ubuntu distribution was the first Linux distribution I ever tried as a result of this. Ubuntu made the transition from Windows very easy. Ubuntu will , in my opinion, make the Linux desktop a much more viable option for long time Windows users. That's it...those are a few main reasons I use Ubuntu.