Comments on: Lazyweb: best Verizon data card?

By: Dan Nicholson

Dan Nicholson — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 05:05:57 +0000

Don’t know if this will help, but one of the people with a lot of experience here is the NetworkManager maintainer, Dan Williams. He has some stuff on his blog, but you may want to just drop him a email. I’m sure you can find his address somewhere. Here’s one entry that might help.

http://blogs.gnome.org/dcbw/2009/03/20/thats-when-i-reach-for-my-revolver/

By: roland

roland — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 22:48:08 +0000

@John: Not a bad idea. It is 3x the price of a USB data card, and I’m not sure it’s worth it to me. Also not sure my current (employer-paid) data card plan ports over to it. But I could imagine cases where it’s useful, so I’ll think about it again.

By: John Kingman

John Kingman — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 19:40:19 +0000

Have you checked out the mifi 2200? It’s a personal hotspot you can use with wifi devices.

http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/13/verizon-mifi-2200-review/

By: roland

roland — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 16:10:50 +0000

@Jan: thanks! Sounds like yet one more reason not to spend extra on ExpressCard — USB hotplug has worked well with Linux for quite some time now.

By: Jan Gutter

Jan Gutter — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 10:24:31 +0000

I’ve got a Lenovo X200 tablet that also has an expesscard slot. Before you pick the expresscard option, just make sure your system correctly hotplugs the PCIe-bus. I think you have to enable a setting in the BIOS that might make you use more power if you want hotplug on. Otherwise you need to reboot every time you insert a card to get it detected…

Then again, since I don’t use my expresscard slot that often, a recent BIOS/kernel/whatever update might have fixed it, and I’m just blowing outdated smoke!