I have one of the EVDO phones. I have had no problem creating a SLIP connection to it via bluetooth. It is very handy to have an internet connection wherever you go (within the metro area). On 5/23/06, Sidney Cammeresi <sac at cheesecake.org> wrote: > On Tue, 23 May 2006 at 11.25.56 -0500, Jima wrote: > > On Tue, 23 May 2006, auditodd at comcast.net wrote: > > > Sorry, let me clarify. > > > I haven't looked into using the EVDO cards with Linux because my company > > > is a Windows shop and all I've seen is the Windows installation > > > software. > > > > > > My bad. :-) > > > > Oh, well, that's a perfectly reasonable explanation. And yes, as far as > > I've read, no one's tried to activate one of those using Linux; everyone > > seems to say "activate it using Windows, then move it to Linux." > > One might have better luck with one of the new phones that do both > EV-DO and Bluetooth. Sprint are selling some of these presently, and > I think Verizon and Cingular (s/EV-DO/EDGE/) are as well. I don't > believe any activation is required beyond activating the phone qua > phone, although one must have the appropriate data miscellany in one's > plan. > > I'd not go with Cingular though, as EDGE is roughly ISDN speed, whereas > EV-DO can go quite a bit faster. > > Whatever you do, don't end up using GPRS. SSH over GPRS is the way of > pain. > > -- > Sidney CAMMERESI > http://www.cheesecake.org/sac/ > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > -- Loren H. Burlingame <loren at lhb.name> GPG Key ID: 0x112DCF4F "Irony can be pretty ironic sometimes." -William Shatner (a.k.a. Buck Murdock)