Banglalion, one of the two Wimax service provider in Bangladesh has a very portable, small sized modem made by ZTE corporation of China. Model is ZTE AX226. But the problem is Banglalion doesn't provide the driver software necessary to be used in Linux.
After a long time, the driver is now successfully compiled for Linux. The original thread about the compilation process can be found here on the projanmo forum. The detailed instruction about how to use the modem can be found here on the blog of one of the contributor . The author of that thread also included a recent success story of using this modem on debian, so it should be easy using it on other Linux distribution.
The bad news is currently this driver can only be used on 32bit versions of Linux, since the original API for the driver from sprint missing support for 64bit Machines. Hopefully, it will be resolved soon.
Note that, the recent versions of Linux kernel from Ubuntu automatically (kernel versions 3+) includes the driver. Though you need the main programs (namely wimaxc, and wimaxd ) still now. To insert the driver you need to execute this command in Ubuntu
sudo modprobe bcm_wimax
After a long time, the driver is now successfully compiled for Linux. The original thread about the compilation process can be found here on the projanmo forum. The detailed instruction about how to use the modem can be found here on the blog of one of the contributor . The author of that thread also included a recent success story of using this modem on debian, so it should be easy using it on other Linux distribution.
The bad news is currently this driver can only be used on 32bit versions of Linux, since the original API for the driver from sprint missing support for 64bit Machines. Hopefully, it will be resolved soon.
Note that, the recent versions of Linux kernel from Ubuntu automatically (kernel versions 3+) includes the driver. Though you need the main programs (namely wimaxc, and wimaxd ) still now. To insert the driver you need to execute this command in Ubuntu
sudo modprobe bcm_wimax