How to install Vodafone Mobile Connect Card driver for Linux

This mini howto assumes that the system is a Ubuntu 6.10+ [based] distro.

Preliminary steps:

Add universe and multiverse to /etc/apt/sources.list

sudo apt-get update

Dependencies:

sudo apt-get install python-dbus python-twisted python-serial \
  python-glade2 python-pysqlite2 wvdial nozomi-source python-notify \
  python-gnome2 python-gnome2-extras

Extra steps:

sudo chown :dialout /etc/ppp/peers
sudo chmod g+w /etc/ppp/peers

Install it:
(inside the package)
sudo python setup.py install


The binaries are at:

/usr/bin/vodafone-mobile-connect-card-driver-for-linux
/usr/bin/vodafone-mobile-connect-card-driver-for-linux-debug


Fedora Core 6 users:

gksu is a bit tricky to install on FC6, you'll have to use FC5 packages
as gksu is broken for FC6, you can install it from the following links:

http://ftp.freshrpms.net/pub/dag/dries/packages/libgksu/fc5-i386/libgksu-1.3.7-1.2.fc5.rf.i386.rpm
http://ftp.freshrpms.net/pub/dag/dries/packages/libgksuui/fc5-i386/libgksuui-1.0.7-1.2.fc5.rf.i386.rpm
http://ftp.freshrpms.net/pub/dag/dries/packages/gksu/fc5-i386/gksu-1.3.4-1.2.fc5.rf.i386.rpm
