Patents are really a bad thing 
http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/apple-vs-htc-a-patent-breakdown/
What will be the next, Apple suing fruit farmers for calling there fruits for apples 
Mobile broadband is very hyped at the moment in Denmark, You can’t turn on the TV, without seeing a commercial with somebody getting on-line in the bus, on the beach on somewhere else, by inserting a little USB key into a laptop.
At work a got such a mobile broadband USB device, so i can be on-line everywhere
And off cause i would like to use this device on Fedora 9. As usual the is no Linux support from the supplier, in Windows, you just plug in the device and it contains a little USB storage CD-ROM image with the Windows drivers.
After a little search on the web, i found this howto
Before i started i placed the supplied SIM card in my mobile phone enter the PUK code and enter a new PIN code and changed the security setting, so that a PIN code is not needed.
After playing around for a while i got it to work, but i really hate to do all that installation from source and i got multiple installation where i want to use the device, so i started to work on making some RPM’s.
I was time to give all the stuff i have learned from reading spot’s great presentation on making rpms.
here is the result:
http://timlau.fedorapeople.org/files/packages/hso/
Now it is much easier to get it up and running
get the dkms-hso, hso-udev & hsolink rpm’s and do:
yum install –nogpgcheck dkms-hso*.rpm hso-udev*.rpm hsolink*.rpm
usermod -a -G uucp youruserid
Download the hsoconnect-py2.5-1.1.83-2.noarch.rpm from here and do:
yum install –nogpgcheck hsoconnect*.rpm
plug in your usb device and use ‘Application -> Internet -> HSOConnect’ to start the dialer.
Click on ‘Connect’ and i was online.
It look like the need for dkms-hso package is only needed for a while, because there is work in progress to get the hso driver into the upstream kernel.
