EVDO on Linux
A friend of mine is lending me her EVDO card for my trip to Cincinnati this weekend. I thought itwouldbe a good idea to gowithCryssy and her parents on their convention trip – even if it does mean I have to leave at 3am.
So I spent half of Tuesday night trying to get it to work properly. The card is a Sprint Novatel Wirless Ovation 727 with a integrated microSD slot. From what I’ve read online so far, you have to shutdown and boot up everytime for it to read it as a USB drive. Then you have to eject the USB drive to have it read it as a CDMA modem. What a pain in the ass to say the least.
I’ve taken the card with the laptop to work today to test out some different scenarios to determine a best practice. If I find one, I’ll post it here.
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Cryssy on April 20th, 2009
Don’t you mean Columbus? It took me a good 5 minutes to figure out when the hell we were going to Cincinnati.
John Fox on April 20th, 2009
Yeah, that was my fault. I originally wrote this entry on Wednesday of last week.
Aliy on April 20th, 2009
Should be noted… works GREAT on Windows. Works OK on Mac… but if you shut your laptop, to go into sleep mode, and don’t disconnect you have to reboot to get it started up again.