Mobile internet dongle

[dwhite]

I live at the end of a really slow broadband line, tried to get infinity, Bt's fibre offering, but it's not available in my post code. After BT's sales people wanted me to migrate now, on the hope that they will be able to roll-out infinity to me ASAP.
Rather than that I'm going with a broadband dongle it's faster than the Wired and I can hide it at the back of my box in those USB sockets. I'm wondering if anyone knows of a script that is like the Windows and mac scripts that are typically in the dongle that install a icon on the desktop of a Windows machine, that when clicked boot the dongle then your browser.

[doktor5000]

Is http://www.sakis3g.org/ what you want? I've used that for some time, when drakconnect had some problems with broadband dongles,
and i didn't want to use NetworkManager (which should be your two preferred options, most popular broadband dongles are plug&play).

[dwhite]

Thanks very much This script looks like its just the thing.

[doktor5000]

Question is, why don't you try the onboard tools first, which i mentioned before?

[dwhite]

I've had two dongles before, as long as you are careful with the download limits they're fine, Drakconnect was fine, the less than wonderful speed you can live with as I used then as email client that wasn't a problem. Now things are a little different, I want to use it to replace household broadband. I've installed that 3G pack on my desktop and I must say it disconnects to much, I think I'll un-install. . thinking back just unplugging was good enough. Now I have a more pressing issue sending email

[doktor5000]

The tools used to configure the connection have nothing to do with download speed or disconnects.
That is only related to radio reception / broadband coverage in your area.

[dwhite]

I wasn't thinking it was, connection speed is down to the device, on my system the disconnect flag was always being waved that coupled with the slowness [in my local] of 3G and the pause until connection the whole thing was untenable.

[doktor5000]

OK, so this thread is solved, no? Then please mark it as such, and open a new thread for the mail problem.

[dwhite]

Yes, I've learned what I need.

[oj]

do you still have networkmanager running? It might conflict with your 3rd party script. Another thing to check is msec, I've had it disconnect me on occasion. (though usually at the same time in the middle of the night) The best thing for hoping to glean any worthwhile info is to run dmesg right after a disconnect.

[doktor5000]

Yes, I've learned what I need.

Please mark the thread accordingly by editing the topic of the first post and prefix it by [SOLVED], thanks.

[dwhite]

Things have changed, the dongle that was working is not and the in-built WiF interface is is asking for nwrapper and no longer looking for the Linux driver.

[doktor5000]

And now?

[dwhite]

Because I haven't got the Windows driver it doesn't work. Years ago the driver was assembled and ready on the disk that came with the device. now a set-up file assembles the driver only if you have a Windows Box. Shouldn't Wine when used on the Windows set-up file assemble the driver? Wouldn't that 'Poff' Bill's replacement, Heh! Heh!

[doktor5000]

Windows driver for what? broadband dongle or wireless chipset?

You can't use ndiswrapper with the former, and it's also not needed. If for the latter, you could use wine, or cabextract or some archive manager
to extract the drivers, download the drivers somewhere else or just use a native linux driver (or fix the configuration if it doesn't work currently).
Sorry but your writing is much too confusing for me, you jump from one topic to the next, that makes support much harder.