as the fresh new distro for EeePC, ubuntueee does not support mobile broadband out of the box (not my Option Icon225 anyway), some additional tweaks are needed to make mobile surfing easy.

(under the default EeePC OS v1.6 the icon225 works and plays nice by default, but under ubuntueee there are a number of options, one is the novamedia launch2net - not free - or manually set it up as I did earlier)

luckily this manual tweaking is not needed anymore, because the good guys over at Pharscape.org developed not only a backend module, but also a nice gui for devices, like the icon225.

there is a brilliant how-to posted there to setup both the module and the gui interface as well. since the instructions are for ubuntu, it works fine on ubuntueee.

the only needed prerequisit is to install development environment, so the module will compile fine.

sudo apt-get install build-essential

after that it is just a matter of following the instructions (with the exception that at the time of this post, the latest version of the module (v1.5) could be found here, while the how-to offers to download v1.2) and an icon will appear on the Internet Tab in ubuntueee.

ok. since I am Hungarian, I also downloaded the hungarian language pack, and installed it into /usr/share/HSOconnect/languages

Edit: as of 24/Sept/2008, HSO driver v 1.6 is out…