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I tried it and had to return it. <div><br></div><div>They do not have Linux drivers and they will be difficult to get as the chips in the device are proprietary and Clear can't get the rights to write drivers. However they do claim that there are plans to support Linux from the device manufacturer.</div><div><br></div><div>That said the service sucked and I couldn't use it on my Mac either. My opinion is that the frequency they are on is very line of sight. It doesn't matter if you are very close to a tower if you can't actually see the tower (trees, houses in the way) you won't get any signal. I am very close to there tower north of Woodstock and I could not use it at home. On the road I could not get it to work inside any of the offices I frequent (Alpharetta, Norcross, 600 block of Pine St) or my car. If you don't mind staying outside it seemed OK on my laptop.<div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div>Mark Wright</div><div><a href="mailto:m.perry.wright@gmail.com">m.perry.wright@gmail.com</a></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> </div><br><div><div>On Jan 8, 2010, at 7:44 PM, Chris Fowler wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Anyone using the Clear USB device in Ubuntu?</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Their take 2 plan compares to what I pay with Atlantic Nexus for DSL.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">could use a device at home to have 24x7 Internet there and then the USB</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">device could work on the netbook.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Is this a bad idea?</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Chris</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">_______________________________________________</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Ale mailing list</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><a href="mailto:Ale@ale.org">Ale@ale.org</a></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><a href="http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale">http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale</a></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">See JOBS, ANNOUNCE and SCHOOLS lists at</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><a href="http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo">http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo</a></div> </blockquote></div><br></div></div></body></html>