Hsdpa Modem ?, Huawei E220 HSDPA USB Modem Options

[jpmatrix]

hello

i'm thinking about a umts/hsdpa modem for my zaurus.
as all CF modems are only gprs, i'm thinking about an USB HSDPA modem :

http://www.huawei.com/mobileweb/en/products/view.do?id=282

do you think this can work with the zaurus, i mean about power consumtion and modem drivers ?

[speculatrix]

I found a couple of websites about the huawei e172 and its brethren:

http://the.taoofmac.com/space/Huawei/E220

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

a colleague has tried the e172 in his ubuntu laptop and it recognised it as four devices - one USB cdrom, and three tty/serial devices - ttyUSB{0,1,2}. he was able to mount the usb cdrom and see the windows install files, not sure he's got the modem side to work.

[speculatrix]

I found a couple of websites about the huawei e172 and its brethren:

http://the.taoofmac.com/space/Huawei/E220

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

a colleague has tried the e172 in his ubuntu laptop and it recognised it as four devices - one USB cdrom, and three tty/serial devices - ttyUSB{0,1,2}. he was able to mount the usb cdrom and see the windows install files, not sure he's got the modem side to work.

colleague couldn't make the E172 work with his ubuntu laptop with kernel 2.6.24.2. Meanwhile I am using Suse10.3 with my own 2.6.24.2 kernel (to get toshiba bluetooth acpi patches) and I put it in, got the usb mass storage which worked AND the ttyUSB* devices, use the ppp files above and it worked first time. My laptop at home is running stock suse 10.3 and it didn't, so I conclude that the later kernel is what fixed it.

so, next step, install angstrom on zaurus again and see if I can use a powered hub and make the thing work!