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March 1, 2008 in Ideas, Linux | 2 comments

I’ve been playing and futzing around with Drupal 6 and for my purposes its not ready for my primetime.  It seems to have a few issues with its blogapi support so using clients like Scribefire or Blogjet can be difficult.  I’m gonna stick with Wordpress for awhile now since it provides a reasonable template for the meaningless drivel that I write.  There are lots of themes also and this one seems pretty decent.

I just purchased a Sierra aircard 595 to take the place of the rapidly diminishing Tmobile Hotspot service.  The card requires a Windows laptop to activate but my card was activated already by Sprint.  It did have to reset the user and settings and I don’t think it could do that on Linux.  But once I got those things done, I rebooted my laptop into pure ubuntu and used a few scripts I found here and I was off and running.  Its a great card and it works with Linux flawlessly.  I also got my Sprint Evdo working on my Centro using a little shareware package called USB modem.

If you are wanting easy mobile broadband, Sprint offers two plans.  I took the “all you can eat” plan because it fits things easier for me and it replaces more totally what i had before.

Both of the great sites above offer scripts and howto’s to get either the aircard or your phone online.  Ubuntu makes it pretty easy these days to get the card or phone working.

  1. Brandon’s avatar

    Brandon on March 4, 2008 at 4:01 pm

    quick question for you…..I used pbandjelly also for the install of my 595 in UBUNTU, and it worked for me also…eventually once I figured out some minor details. Anyway, after I rebooted my computer for the first time it stopped working!! Would you have any insight as to what could be wrong??

    THANKS!

  2. Michael Perry’s avatar

    Michael Perry on March 4, 2008 at 4:07 pm

    Hi Brandon-

    I’ve rebooted this Ubuntu laptop at least once and its worked. I notice that the system inserts a module when the card is placed in the slot. Is that module inserted in your kernel when the card goes in? It looks like this:

    sierra 13188 1
    usbserial 34920 3 sierra
    usbcore 138632 9 sierra,usbserial,ohci_hcd,usb_storage,libusual,cdc_acm,
    ehci_hcd,uhci_hcd

    Also, when I insert the card, dmesg responds with a bunch of stuff. Can you send me the print out of what dmesg says when you insert the card after you reboot?

    Its worth noting I did not have to make the changes to udev at all that pbandjelly state. I just inserted the card and away I went. I don’t think I stated that when I wrote the blogpost.