AT&T C885 USB 3G adapter and das Ubuntu 8.10
So a client and I ended up moving her laptop, a Dell Inspiron 1525, to Ubuntu because Vista and the attendant AHCI drivers were absolute filth. Did the file shuffle thing, ran the install. Activated the proprietary wireless driver, and presto, we on the wifis. Next up was getting the C885 going. I thought this would be a minor pain, where I set up wvdial and finally got network manager to recognize it as a dial up connection. No sir, it was mind blowingly painless. I got it current with updates, rebooted, plugged it in and network manager configured it for me. For some reason there’s a dual entry for it, only one of which appears to work, but aside from that everything is just brilliant!