<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 10:31 AM, Josh More <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:morej@alliancetechnologies.net">morej@alliancetechnologies.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
A lot of you are far better at the hardware side of things than I am, so<br>
I figure that a couple questions to the list will probably save me hours<br>
of trying things and getting them wrong.<br>
<br>
Situation: I have a used IBM Thinkpad X60 that I am rebuilding with<br>
Linux.<br>
<br>
1) There seems to be a built-in cellular card. How do I determine which<br>
of the many cell providers to talk to about what it would take to<br>
activate it?<br></blockquote></div><br>If it's a GSM modem then it is likely t-mobile or AT&T. A GSM modem will have a sim card slot on it (a small smart-card like connector built for a card slightly bigger than a micro-sd card).<br>
<br>If there's no SIM card it's likely Verizon or Sprint.<br><br>-- <br>Matthew Nuzum<br>newz2000 on freenode, skype, linkedin, <a href="http://identi.ca">identi.ca</a> and twitter<br>