Exetel HSPA / HSDPA / Mobile Broadband on Ubuntu 8.10
January 5th, 2009
Exetel's HSPA service works fine on Ubuntu 8.10, but it doesn't work out of the box. For some (brain-dead) reason, Ubuntu pops up a 'new mobile broadband' wizard when you plug your USB modem in, but it forces you to choose from a list of presets, without the ability to create a custom connection. Not surprisingly, Exetel isn't in that list.
You can work around this weirdness with a kludge. When you're in the wizard, pick another random preset (I used Vodafone). Then, after the wizard is complete, manually fix the settings. All I had to do was change the profile name & APN (to exetel1). Voila!
Enjoy your cheap 3g :)
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