Aircard

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Introduction

An aircard is a device for a laptop, PDA or cell phone that allows the user to connect to wide area wireless Internet access. You will need a service plan to access the Internet with your aircard.

Hardware choices

Sierra cards (such as the 875U USB) are known to work on MEPIS 7, where the driver "sierra" is available as a kernel module that can be loaded.

Operation

Sierra card connects using PPPD, may not work with KPPP.

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