Sony Vaio + Vodafone 3G

Hi

I have a Vodafone 3g 'data connect USB modem' and I have recently acquired a
Vaio TZ331WN which has an on-board 3G transceiver. Irritatingly, its seems
you can only get the Vaio to work with the bundled T-Mobile software and sim
card.

Even more irritatingly, the Vodafone Connect software only seems to support
on-board 3G capability on Acer, Dell, HP and Lenovo machines.

Obviously, I can continue to use the USB dongle but it seems unnecessarily
awkward. So the question is:

a) can I use any of the other packages (for Acer, Dell etc) with my Vaio?
b) is there a third party application I can use which will use the
internal 3G transceiver with a Vodafone sim?

Any advice please?

Thanks

Paul

"Paul" <paul@paccts.co.uk> wrote in message
news:4819ccd9$0$653$5a6aecb4@news.aaisp.net.uk...
> Hi
>
> I have a Vodafone 3g 'data connect USB modem' and I have recently acquired
> a Vaio TZ331WN which has an on-board 3G transceiver. Irritatingly, its
> seems you can only get the Vaio to work with the bundled T-Mobile software
> and sim card.
>
> Even more irritatingly, the Vodafone Connect software only seems to
> support on-board 3G capability on Acer, Dell, HP and Lenovo machines.
>
> Obviously, I can continue to use the USB dongle but it seems unnecessarily
> awkward. So the question is:
>
> a) can I use any of the other packages (for Acer, Dell etc) with my
> Vaio?
> b) is there a third party application I can use which will use the
> internal 3G transceiver with a Vodafone sim?
>
> Any advice please?
>
> Thanks
>
> Paul
Happily, I have solved this myself (with the help of the trusty interweb).
The driver and a communications utility is available from Sony for XP. It
runs fine on Vista. Doesn't do anything fancy - but all I want is to be able
to address the transceiver, which it does.

P