I picked up a Huawei E1550 pre-pay mobile broadband dongle, £39.99 with 3 Mobile including 3Gb usage (note it’s not the device they’re picturing).
I’m on a course next month so that’ll do fine, I have no reception at home and am not away enough to warrant a contract.
It appears to identify itself as USB storage, [...]
Tag Archives: Arch Linux
Huawei E1550 on Ubuntu
Installing Arch on the Aspire One
I reinstalled Arch from scratch on an Aspire One today, something I haven’t done for a while. I’ve updated my wiki page to reflect the changes since the end of last year.
http://wiki.lynxworks.eu/aspireone/arch
Watch TV with VLC and a Freecom DVB-T Stick
One of the things I need my Aspire One to do is watch TV. When you’re away, it’s nice to be able to watch a little TV. I bought a Freecom DVB-T USB stick years ago and have always had success under Linux. It’s small, sensitive and selective.
I was surprised, especially on Ubuntu, how easy [...]
Replacing Firefox
I am a heavy web user. Everything from webmail to banking, if I can do it on-line I will.
So when I’m away from home (which is common) I like to have connectivity. With WiFi access and mobile broadband what to connect to is straightforward. As I like to travel light, I prefer to use a [...]
Install Arch Linux on an Aspire One
I recently decided to reinstall a perfectly good install of Arch on my Aspire One because someone said they couldn’t get it to work. I don’t know why this install was more troublesome than the last but it was. I’m not taking any credit here – this information is available on the Arch Wiki, its [...]




