WiMax from Yota for Linux

I just borrowed a USB modem from Yota from my colleague, and tested it a bit under Linux (Fedora 11). Installation did not cause any problems, but the speed was disappointing. Inside the building, in the area of ​​Avtozavodskaya, a jump, according to the speedtest - 4.2 Mbit, apload - approximately 1.5 Mbit. However, the problem may not be technology, but, for example, in a raw driver, or “rush hour” on the network (about six in the evening), or in thick brick walls around. :)

Or maybe I just snicked, three years ago, even the fixed Internet with such speed was a dream. :)

In order for everything to work with an external USB-modem from Samsung, you need to do the following.
1. Download the madwimax sources from here: code.google.com/p/madwimax .
2. Install the libusb1 and libusb1-devel packages.
3. Unpack the source somewhere, and run ./configure
4. Install a lot of more garbage, which will ask ./configure, while the script does not finish to the end. All the garbage is in the standard repositories, so nothing more from the source will not have to put.
5. Run make and wait for the build to complete.
6. Go to the src directory and find the file madwimax - this is what you need to run to establish a connection.
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After launch, the wimax0 interface will appear, on which you need to hook dhclient, and then set the address of some DNS server in resolv.conf. Naturally, these operations can be automated, and standard Fedora tools can be used for this, but I will not describe this, since these actions are the same for any network interface.

If I’m going to buy myself a WiMax laptop, I’ll probably have to build an RPM package with this driver. And maybe by that time Fedora 12 will come out, with built-in support for these devices. :)