[wellylug] Family History Expo at Johnsonville Community Hall Saturday 27 August.

[Dagan]

On Mon, 2011-08-22 at 19:03 +1200, Jeff Hunt wrote:
> This coming Saturday my wife will represent the National Library at
> the Family History Expo at Johnsonville Community Hall.
> 
> There is no internet cabling. She will have our laptop running Ubuntu
> and Gramps to show off how Linux can cope with genealogy but she also
> needs online access to the National Library sites to show what they
> offer. For this she expects to use two laptops and there is no reason
> they can't be someone's Linux set-up. Otherwise she will borrow MS
> machines from work.

 Hi Jeff,

 Getting a Vodem to work shouldn't be too complicated. I have the
2Degrees USB 3G dongle on my Fedora laptop, and that works fine :)

 I don't know if the current Vodems have a mini-SD memory slot in them,
like the 2Degrees devices so, but if they do you should install the
"usb_modeswitch" package in Ubuntu.

 It also usually requires manually configuring the Vodafone 3G details,
since the software for the Vodem is Windows-based.
 A Google search should be able to provide these details, they're
usually on local sites like Geekzone.

 I've used Gramps myself before, sadly not enough, but it's a nice
application. Good to show to as many people as possible IMO.

 cheers,
 Dagan