Did anyone attach external GPRS/EDGE USB modem to N810 (host mode)?

I find some modems work with Linux kernel 2.6.x but I'm not sure Chinook kernel has all necessary modules. I wanna use Huawei EG162 or similar modem with cheap GPRS account.

May be somebody tried other GPRS USB modem with success. Then please tell me manufacturer, model.

I had a brief experience with a huawei modem (unfortunately I don't have the model number), a friend uses on his laptop. I found some sites claiming that it is suported in linux, but it requires more mAh (I think it was 500 mAh) than the tablets can offer - so it will only work (if it works ... ) with a powered hub (which kinda defeats the purpose).

1. mA, not mAh
2. How does a battery-powered hub defeat the purpose? It's not like you can jam the thing in most pockets with a modem hanging out the end, so I'd expect you'd use a flexible cable to a modem in your hip pocket anyway. So put the hub in with the modem.

I posted quite a few things here, need someone to test them:
http://www.internettablettalk.com/fo...990#post173990

because you'll need a lot of stuff to ne mobile...
in this situation it would be eaier to just stick the sim of the modem in a phone you don't use, and use it trough bluetooth.

Just another phone is much bigger than this modem. Not so comfortable carry two phones. But modem I would just put into belt bag with tabblet.

Plus doing it through the bluetooth modem on a phone makes the connection slow, I have T-mobile web and walk on my phone and use it to connect to the net on my N810 and it is really much slower than using my web n walk pro in my laptop usb modem.

wish there was a way to connect the web n walk usb modem to the N810 to get a faster net connection

Does anyone know the power draw of the E169G?

A huawei e220, for example, draws quite a lot of power. On a USB 1.1. desktop computer I need to use both USB ports to power it.

I've tried this in combination with a wi-fi router (with my N800) and just using a 3G phone with BT (with my N800). After quite a lot of testing I've found that the throughput problem isn't BT, what slows it down is the packet losses on that 3G connection itself. It's so bad that I don't bother with the huawei anymore, any BT slowdown is irrelevant when the 3G connection is so variable. That's in my experience, anyway.