On Mon, 28 Dec 2020 08:37:00 +1300, Kurt Weiske wrote:

>  Getting the carrier to provision them properly may be tough. I have a
>  Thinkpad laptop with a SIM slot for a Gobi card, but if I slot in a
>  working GSM sim, it doesn't work. Don't know if they're locked to a
>  specific carrier or need to be provisioned differently to work.
>
Fair comment. The only GSM dongle I've tried or needed to try, back in
2004, came with a Vodafone sim. However, it turned out that I was in a
not-spot where the dongle would connect, but couldn't transfer data.

Fortunately, I was able to send it back and get a refund.

BTW, the program I used to access the dongle on an old Lenovo running Red
Hat Linux 7.1 (that dates it!), gcom, was a command-line utility that
executed a user-modifiable script to connect to the network and manage
data transfers. I don't know if its still around or needed, but the
documentation was excellent and all in its manpage.


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