Re: GSM or CDMA for mobile email and database?

Simon,

I googled up this http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-pcmcia/2006-April/003489.html which talks about working on Fedora "out of the box", but doesn't really offer any detail except that it behaves like a USB-over-PCMCIA device. This corelates well with your previous link http://zh.gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_CDMA_Wireless_Card which lists a bunch of USB modules that must be available.

If you get it to work under Linux, do tell us about it.

Clayton

On Thu, 29 Jun 2006 08:31:17 +0800
"Simon Cousins" <simon-MTRkitCQmL6jF/[email protected]> wrote:

> Well, I ended up buying a Huawei EC321 PCMCIA card with a China
> Unicom CDMA SIM.  I've been using it in a Windows XP laptop (sorry,
> haven't been able to test under Linux!!!) but under Doze it has
> worked flawlessly.  It consistently connects all over Beijing (even
> from a taxi at 80Km/hour on the 5th ring road) at 230.4Kbps.  The
> China Unicom data service has been 100% reliable, and costs a flat 98
> yuan a month, with unlimited traffic and connections.
> 
> The Huawei software is impressive (I attached a screendump): fully
> English, handles calls and SMS as well as data.  The card comes with
> a earpiece/mic so the laptop now doubles as a mobile phone.
> 
> All up cost for the card and the Unicom SIM was 800 yuan.  I couldn't
> be happier, and I'm now very impressed with Huawei (which I have
> recently seen described as "the Cisco of China".
> 
> I also bought a USB version for a desktop: same great success.
> 
> Anyone have Linux performance to report?
> 
> S.
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: blug-tech-bounces-+qp3TudyjKPvfBIPTTProkB+6BGkLq7r@public.gmane.org [mailto:blug-tech-
> > [email protected]] On Behalf Of David
> > Sent: Thursday, 27 April 2006 10:22 PM
> > To: Beijing LUG technical questions and assistance - Publicly posted
> > Subject: Re: [blug-tech] GSM or CDMA for mobile email and database?
> > 
> > On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 12:23:31PM +0800, Simon Cousins wrote:
> > hi:
> >      I used CDMA wireless card under Gentoo Linux for a month.
> > 	 It works well! But one of may classmates often encounters
> > 	 disconnect under Windows. I don't why!
> > 	 So, if you could read in Chinese(I'm new to BLUG, don't
> > know you), you can read
> > http://zh.gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_CDMA_Wireless_Card, a tip written by
> > me tells how to surport a CDMA card on Linux. and if you have any
> > other question, just call me(number on rear the mail), send email
> > > Dear Bluggers,
> > >
> > > I have to set up a mini wireless network for basic internet
> > > access at
> > the
> > > Beijing Convention Centre in early June.  They do offer ADSL
> > > feeds but
> > the
> > > prices are astronomical.
> > >
> > > I'm thinking about buying a GSM (China Mobile) or CDMA (Unicom)
> > > SIM for
> > data
> > > use, and an appropriate PC Card for a Windows laptop.  I would
> > > love to
> > hear
> > > Bluggers' experiences with the relative merits: I understand that
> > > CDMA
> > is
> > > faster than GSM, for example?
> > >
> > > Main usage will be for perhaps 3 to 5 simultaneous users doing
> > > basic
> > email,
> > > and to access an Oracle database via a browser app.
> > >
> > > Best regards in advance, and I will summarise to the list.
> > >
> > > S.
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