mindwave Posted July 23, 2008 Report Share Posted July 23, 2008 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 [moved from Hardware by Greg2] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted July 23, 2008 Report Share Posted July 23, 2008 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 ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg2 Posted July 23, 2008 Report Share Posted July 23, 2008 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mindwave Posted July 24, 2008 Author Report Share Posted July 24, 2008 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamw Posted July 24, 2008 Report Share Posted July 24, 2008 Have you tried simply using drakconnect? It is able to cope with several cellular data devices and providers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mindwave Posted July 24, 2008 Author Report Share Posted July 24, 2008 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... :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamw Posted July 25, 2008 Report Share Posted July 25, 2008 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 :\ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mindwave Posted July 25, 2008 Author Report Share Posted July 25, 2008 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mindwave Posted July 26, 2008 Author Report Share Posted July 26, 2008 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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