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FezzFest, my Wifi is built in to the LLL and it's the original OS on the machine. My friend's a technophobe and preferred the original software - we did try others!
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Tank. The mobile dongle I'm using is a Huawei E220. This works out of the box with the LLL as the LLL has the correct driver in the firmware. I specifically researched which dongle would work out of the box. The E220 is very popular and I got it off Ebay.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huawei_E220There are only two manufacturers of mobile dongles - Huawei and ZTE. In my research many have had problems getting ZTE dongles to work owing to the lack of drivers for them - in the Linux domain that is. The driver for the E220 is something like zo2260 which as I say is in the LLL firmware.
I use telecom company 3 which on PAYG gives 1GB for £10 or 3GB for £15. There may be cheaper packages but my mate, who uses the LLL at the mo, with his roaming circumstances prefers using it this way. Have a look here for how to connect to the 3 network:
http://linuxlaptopforum.ark2webdesign.co.uk/index.php/topic,581.0.htmlMy advice? Bite the bullet and buy an E220 that is unlocked. There are two versions: one with max.speed 3.6MHz and one with updated firmware to give 7.2MHz max.speed - I have the latter. I think it'd be worth it just to save a lot of hassle!
Hope this helps.
Unh.