A while back I was trying to get my tmobile e220 modem running on my nslu2 and I tried everything wvdial / network-manager etc etc but still nothing. Getting it to work was the major foundation to a project I was doing so HAD to be done. I was at my wits end when I stumbled purely by accident a webpage explaining how to do it via UMTS. Here’s a copy of the page for archive purposes only none of it is my work and all credit goes to the author.

After a flash drive crash I wanted to re-install Debian 5 on my NSLU2 however after visiting the authors website I found it’s no longer supported and thus forcing you to install Debian 6 Wheezy. Also you can no longer use the graphical install that we have all become accustomed to but rather manually partition and format your drive then download and extract the base file onto it. I tried it the new way and what a long winded process it is. After getting Debian 6 up and running I found my custom software install script failed at multiple points due previous packages not being available in the new release. I decided to find a way to re-install Debian 5 and this is how I did it.