[Slugnet] Vodafone 3G modem with Asus Eee?

[Jean Jordaan]

> One thing im totally amazed with eeepc is the setup for these 3g modem. I
> tried m1, singtel and starhub modem before and the setup is just through the
> menus. super good support.

Yes! I was so convinced I would need some commandline incantation,
grepping of lsusb output, fiddling of simpleui.rc, and so on, that I
didn't even think of just clicking on Networks.

Still, the Eee is not a complete triumph .. this article notes some
gripes I've also noticed:
  http://gizmodo.com/351086/asus-eee-pc-long+term-review-verdict-honeymoon-officially-over

Specifically:
- the system freezes. Both a black one and white one (both 4G 700's)
I've tried have repeatedly frozen after being left alone for a while.
- the wifi network detection can be wonky. Yesterday in the National
Library it showed about 5 library public access networks, and just as
many wireless at sg networks, both up to 90+% signal strength. It jumped
on the library network and refused to connect to the wireless at sg
network. Meantime my Thinkpad was on wireless at sg with no problem.

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jean                                              . .. .... //\\\oo///\\