PCMCIA and 3G

[Squishy]

Hi guys. So I've been looking for a light linux distro for this old laptop (Dell Inspiron 1000 2.2GHz Celeron, 1.2GB of RAM, 4,200 RPM 30GB HDD) and TinyMe caught my eye. I only use this laptop for a bit of video, browsing,torrent downloading and maybe the odd bit of Java coding (for college) in NetBeans. I was wondering how well this distro interfaces with the hardware - I have a PCMCIA wireless adapter (Belkin 54G) and a 3G dongle (Hauwei e1752). Now I'm not too worried about the wireless adapter - what does concern me is the 3G dongle. The fact that its a composite device (card reader storage and the 3G modem) caused a big headache when I was running Ubuntu - I had to manually mode-switch it every time, and then through some odd quirk in Ubuntu I had to create a new connection with the device to get it to read it properly.

Now obviously that was very annoying, but its compounded by the fact that 90% of the time I had no other way of connecting to the internet. Does TinyMe have good support for 3G devices? This is kind of a deal breaker for me!

[gettinther]

I use a 3G huaweyi E270 to connect to the internet when away from home and had no issues.  It does no harm trying it out .  I'm not sure if ppp and comgt are installed by default in this test release so you might need to add them manually.