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Following up on older post, I realised the instructions for Fedora were wrong.
The page is now updated and I’ve tested it with a Huawei E1550 on an Acer Aspire One A110 running Fedora 11.
http://wiki.lynxworks.eu/misc/e1550#fedora
Fedora 11 has Presto support, enabling Delta RPMs in yum.
This means that the difference between a patched and un-patched binary are downloaded and applied rather than the entire package. Furthermore, because this is applied to the installed binary, there is no need to have the un-patched RPM. This offers substantial decreases in download sizes during [...]
In the interests of not becoming blinkered to one distribution, I thought I might give Fedora 11 a whirl. Not having used Fedora since FC4, I was surprised to see the adoption of a live CD installation and relieved to avoid a DVD size download. Just like Ubuntu it’s well polished, perhaps more so with [...]
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, [...]
