I have suregery next month, and my hospital has "free guest wireless" but has a firewall that blocks almost EVERYTHING. Including radio stations.

My laptop has 2008.1 on it and KDE and thats all working fine (ACER Aspire 5305)

however I would love to get my Verizon PC5750 Cellular Broadband card working.

I bought it to use w/ my work (windows) laptop, but dont want to take that to the hospital woth me.

Any ideas would be appreciated.

J

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Never used the card (or any PCMCIA broadband wireless) but this page might help: http://www.linux.com/articles/52729
Found it googling Verizon PC5750 linux, was the first result. Might want to try google next time

This was posted for Ubuntu, but it looks like it should work for your Mandriva system:
GUI Interface for Verizon PC5750

It's also done with an Acer Aspire.

I did search all the search engines for it, and found that a lot of foolkx had gotten it to work w/ UBU, but couldnt find anyone who had tried it with MDV.

Essentially the device is being treated like a deail up modem and not having ever set one of those up, I was hoping that maybe someone here might have tried this ion the past.

I know the 5750 isnt the newest kid on the block, but thats why i was hoping someone had tried this already.

j

Have you tried simply using drakconnect? It is able to cope with several cellular data devices and providers.

thats what I'm going to try tonite. As I mentioned earlier, I just found out that its being treated as a dialup device.

thanks for pointing me in the right direction though, so how about those synce/wm2003 backports...

It's half done, but I can't finish it due to a bug in the buildsystem which no-one seems to want to fix :\

OY, ok, I know I've bugged you a lot, if you could just let me know when it happens i'd REALLY appreciate it.

thats the one thing that is keeping my wife off of 100% MDV.

J

ok its FAR from perfect

and i still dont have the drakconnect working

but if you have a verizon broadband try this

http://www.thehess.org/linuxcell.html

and if you figure out the drakconnect PLEASE let me know

j