<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div>David.<br><br></div>Here's the first Google hit for 'linux optus USB 3g modem' (assuming that's what you mean by USB dongle) : <a href="http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/archive/1304752">http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/archive/1304752</a><br>
<br></div>So it looks as though there is information out there. This may be a red herring if it's not the question you were asking - you haven't provided much information.<br><br></div>I know nothing at all of the way Optus sets up its 3G modems, but I did have one from '3' that required a Windows app to be run in order to activate the modem and IIRC to add credit to it. That app resided in a partition on the USB modem which mounted itself on a Windows machine, ran its binary then unmounted itself and handed over to the modem once it had finished. Not much use at all on a linux machine. I was able to get it going after a fashion by activating on a Windows box then using it on a linux machine but that proved too painful so I ditched it.<br>
<br></div><div>The linux-aus mailing list may not be the best place for your question. I note that your distro of choice, Mepis, has a presence on IRC whcih may be a better place to ask: <a href="http://www.mepis.org/docs/en/index.php?title=MEPIS_irc_channel">http://www.mepis.org/docs/en/index.php?title=MEPIS_irc_channel</a> and their user community has a forum at <a href="http://forum.mepiscommunity.org/">http://forum.mepiscommunity.org/</a> and that's probably where I'd start.<br>
<br><br></div><div>-- <br></div>MC<br><br><br><div><br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div></div>