http://www.linux.com/articles/52729

I'm going to be getting the N810 soon and I want to use a Verizon datacard to connect to the Internet with it. I went around to the computer shops in my area until I found someone who guarantees me they can install the card on a linux OS; it just could take anywhere from 15 minutes to several hours, depending on the OS version and the card itself.

I found the above link on a thread here, and I wanted to ask if the N810 would work with those instructions?
Would any of the steps change is the card isn't going to be in a PC slot, but rather connecting through USB?
Does the N810 run X11?
Does it have a working copy of Point-to-Point Protocol daemon or something equivalent?
And can you gain root access and use a terminal with it out of the box?

I'm a complete linux newb, so I don't even know what a good chunk of this means. (X11? pppd? root access? clueless.)