Foreign Perspectives

For instance, we were heading off to the UK for a while I thought that it would be an idea to get a little modem for my Sharp SL-5500 Zaurus. Anyway, a quite hunt round e-bay turned up maybe a half-dozen compact-flash modems. Would they work though?

A quick search on google revealed next to nothing about connecting such things to the Zaurus. Anyway, I figured that the HP modem would be pretty standard and at £5 wasn’t a massive outlay either.

So, what do you need to do to install it? Nothing, just plug it in and off it goes. That’s how Linux handles such things. So no need for the CD that came with it to add the Windows drivers.

Of course, as we’re in France, it’s not quite so simple to start surfing. We used to use tiscali as a backup dial-up service but they’ve now ditched that so I’d to sign up with freesurf before I could get surfing with the Zaurus.