WELL! After fighting tooth and nail with ovi and pc suites (ovi added more than two minutes to my netbook's boot time! I finally got things to work.

Steps:
1) install the n900 as a device using v7.1.32.58 of the driver usbser_lowerfltx64.sys (uuencoded below; if you can find a way to extract it from the "Connectivity Cable Driver" I would love to know, the process for me was to install then uninstall... eww!) - NOTE that this might not be the right driver for you! In particular, if you're on a 32-bit arch this is likely to bork. (Note that it installs using modem.sys and usbser.sys, both v6.1.7600, from MS as well)

2) In device manager, right click n900->properties, Advanced tab, in the 'extra initialization commands' section enter:
+CGDCONT=,,"YOUR_APN"
where YOUR_APN is the APN your telco has given you (call customer service to get this, if you don't know it? I suspect it's in the n900 somewhere, though, perhaps someone else can clarify)

3) Open a dialup connection, use the n900 modem, use the username/password (if any) for your APN, and its phone number (eg. *99# for me)

And once it's done negotiating PPP etc, you should be connected!

I haven't tried this on a purely clean machine yet; that's hopefully going to happen this weekend. If there's any snags or additional steps I'll follow up here.

Happy surfing!


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