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- 12-28-2008, 12:32 PM #1RichGuest
Hi
I brought the Mrs for Christmas a Acer Aspire One netbook. Basically
just a small laptop with a linux frontend.
Ripped out linux and installed standard XP.
My question is however can I use my Tmobile web and walk that I'm
paying around £7.00 a month to browse the internet?
I have a bluetooth adaptor in the network - bluesoli I think the
software is called.
I have a nokia slide 6500.
Any ideas on how to try it? Main thing is I don't want to be hit with
a big bill - only want to try it's included in the web and walk
charges.
Best regards
Rich
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- 12-28-2008, 12:42 PM #2Blah Blah BlahGuest
Re: Netbooks
On Sun, 28 Dec 2008 18:32:30 +0000, Rich faxed us with....
> Hi
>
> I brought the Mrs for Christmas a Acer Aspire One netbook. Basically
> just a small laptop with a linux frontend.
>
> Ripped out linux and installed standard XP.
>
> My question is however can I use my Tmobile web and walk that I'm paying
> around £7.00 a month to browse the internet?
>
> I have a bluetooth adaptor in the network - bluesoli I think the
> software is called.
>
> I have a nokia slide 6500.
>
> Any ideas on how to try it? Main thing is I don't want to be hit with a
> big bill - only want to try it's included in the web and walk charges.
>
> Best regards
>
> Rich
Yeah,
Put the Linux back on and you'll find it works a charm.
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- 12-28-2008, 01:48 PM #3BGNGuest
Re: Netbooks
On Sun, 28 Dec 2008 18:32:30 +0000, Rich <[email protected]> wrote:
>Hi
>
>I brought the Mrs for Christmas a Acer Aspire One netbook. Basically
>just a small laptop with a linux frontend.
>
>Ripped out linux and installed standard XP.
>
>My question is however can I use my Tmobile web and walk that I'm
>paying around £7.00 a month to browse the internet?
>
>I have a bluetooth adaptor in the network - bluesoli I think the
>software is called.
>
>I have a nokia slide 6500.
>
>Any ideas on how to try it? Main thing is I don't want to be hit with
>a big bill - only want to try it's included in the web and walk
>charges.
I'm not familiar with the Slide 6500 but on my n95 on web'n'walk I
just plugged the n95 into the PC via the USB cable and PC Suite seemed
to do everything else.
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- 12-28-2008, 04:05 PM #4IainGuest
Re: Netbooks
Rich wrote:
> Hi
>
> I brought the Mrs for Christmas a Acer Aspire One netbook. Basically
> just a small laptop with a linux frontend.
>
> Ripped out linux and installed standard XP.
>
> My question is however can I use my Tmobile web and walk that I'm
> paying around £7.00 a month to browse the internet?
My question is why did you replace and efficient and effective OS with crap?
- 12-28-2008, 08:49 PM #5andyGuest
Re: Netbooks
On 28 Dec, 22:05, Iain <[email protected]> wrote:
> Rich wrote:
> > Hi
>
> > I brought the Mrs for Christmas a Acer Aspire One netbook. *Basically
> > just a small laptop with a linux frontend.
>
> > Ripped out linux and installed standard XP.
>
> > My question is however can I use my Tmobile web and walk that I'm
> > paying around £7.00 a month to browse the internet?
>
> My question is why did you replace and efficient and effective OS with crap?
Why ask?
Nokia haven't written a version or equivalent of PC Suite in Linux, so
for this particular use the question is irrelevant.
For the OP: I don't know what T-mobile's policies are, but some
networks allow use as modem from inclusive packages
- 12-29-2008, 05:02 AM #6T i mGuest
Re: Netbooks
On Sun, 28 Dec 2008 18:49:21 -0800 (PST), andy
<[email protected]> wrote:
>On 28 Dec, 22:05, Iain <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Rich wrote:
>> > Hi
>>
>> > I brought the Mrs for Christmas a Acer Aspire One netbook. *Basically
>> > just a small laptop with a linux frontend.
>>
>> > Ripped out linux and installed standard XP.
>>
>> > My question is however can I use my Tmobile web and walk that I'm
>> > paying around £7.00 a month to browse the internet?
>>
>> My question is why did you replace and efficient and effective OS with crap?
>
>Why ask?
>
>Nokia haven't written a version or equivalent of PC Suite in Linux, so
>for this particular use the question is irrelevant.
Yup, same with my recent Voda PAYG dongle, according to the blurb, not
even supported by OSX. However, whilst it probably *is* supported at a
driver and function level by both OSX and Linux I don't think you
would be able to see the 'how much credit left' and 'topup online'
buttons as you do with the Windows variants. Again, they may well be
duplicatable directly on the web but me, I can't be arsed to look when
under XP it 'just works'. Along with my Nokia Suite, Garmin MapSource,
Agent newsreader, real MSN and a million other apps I'm familiar with
and bits of hardware I want to use (without a fight).
Cheers, T i m
- 12-29-2008, 09:11 AM #7JRGuest
Re: Netbooks
Rich wrote:
> Hi
>
> I brought the Mrs for Christmas a Acer Aspire One netbook. Basically
> just a small laptop with a linux frontend.
>
> Ripped out linux and installed standard XP.
>
> My question is however can I use my Tmobile web and walk that I'm
> paying around £7.00 a month to browse the internet?
>
> I have a bluetooth adaptor in the network - bluesoli I think the
> software is called.
>
> I have a nokia slide 6500.
>
> Any ideas on how to try it? Main thing is I don't want to be hit with
> a big bill - only want to try it's included in the web and walk
> charges.
>
> Best regards
>
> Rich
If you are on WnW+ then you can use your phone as a modem via Bluetooth
or USB. The 'plus' part is the bit that allows you to use the phone as a
modem without breaking T-Mobile's T&Cs.
The Nokia software should contain a connection option, if not create a
new dialup connection with the phone as the modem and *99# as the dialup
number.
For those using Linux the same thing can be done on T-Mobile (and
presumably others) by creating a connection string using standard ATxxx
commands.
- 12-29-2008, 10:57 AM #8tony sayerGuest
Re: Netbooks
In article <[email protected]>, Iain <no-
[email protected]> scribeth thus
>Rich wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> I brought the Mrs for Christmas a Acer Aspire One netbook. Basically
>> just a small laptop with a linux frontend.
>>
>> Ripped out linux and installed standard XP.
>>
>> My question is however can I use my Tmobile web and walk that I'm
>> paying around £7.00 a month to browse the internet?
>
>My question is why did you replace and efficient and effective OS with crap?
Yes, what was wrong with the Linux which has now replaced Vister on the
Mrs's laptop)
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Tony Sayer
- 12-29-2008, 01:17 PM #9BGNGuest
Re: Netbooks
On Sun, 28 Dec 2008 22:05:18 +0000, Iain <[email protected]>
wrote:
>> I brought the Mrs for Christmas a Acer Aspire One netbook. Basically
>> just a small laptop with a linux frontend.
>>
>> Ripped out linux and installed standard XP.
>>
>> My question is however can I use my Tmobile web and walk that I'm
>> paying around £7.00 a month to browse the internet?
>
>My question is why did you replace and efficient and effective OS with crap?
I'm quite a fan of Linux but I found that the edition which ships with
the Acer Aspire One (some Fedora bastardization?) is a bit poo and too
locked down. I tried through xubuntu on it but even after doing all
of the configuring it was just toooo slow. I shoved WinXP Pro SP3 on
it and it works far, far more smoothly (even with just 512Mb/ram) and
lets me the MS Remote Desktop Connection to my Vista PC without issue.
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