Sandgroper wrote:
"Frank Slootweg" wrote in message
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[aus.computers.linux added.]

Thanks. I took the liberty of crossposting this to
aus.computers.linux, so that audience can see what this is about, and
can hopefully help.

An alternative is to use a mobile phone with bluetooth and connect to
the net via bluetooth on the laptop and the mobile. That will definitely
work with Linux. I've done it without problems on Telstra's "NextG"
network.
I would prefer not to buy an UMTS/3G phone and AFAIK my (Acer Aspire
One) mini-notebook doesn't have a bluetooth connection, so that might
lead to a different (for a Bluetooth USB 'stick') driver problem, but
that is probably easier to solve. I'll keep this path in mind as a
possible alternative. Thanks for the suggestion.


These links might be of help.

Whirlpool
http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum....cfm?t=1061996

http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum...s.cfm?t=897808

http://quozl.linux.org.au/bp3-usb/#configuring-kernel

http://oozie.fm.interia.pl/pro/huawei-e220/

Interesting...

The OP needs to bear in mind though, in relation to that last link, that
Telstra's NextG network, annoyingly, operates on 850MHz - and it looks
like that Huawei-e220 doesn't.

I don't know how much coverage Optus's 900MHz/2100MHz network's got now,
or where the OP is intending to travel to, but it could be worth
considering.