Nothing quite works with the ZTE card. Am on the point of giving up. Have written to ZTE [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Sierra Wireless AirCard 555 does work though, and it's setup is documented in the July 2006 issue of LINUX FOR YOU (New Delhi).
On the #linux-india chatroom on Freenode, someone mentioned that the Sierra card costs "three times as much". But Reliance told me (on the phone) that it is also sold at the same price (Rs 5000). It would make a lot of sense if ZTE had worked out some solution for the GNU/Linux operating system. Incidentally, I came much further on the SuSE operating system (sorry, this is a politically incorrect thing to now say, thanks to Novell!!!) than I did with Ubuntu. We tried everything. Different init strings (including those suggested on the Windows-only setup that comes on the mini-CD enclosed) and blacklisting some possibly-conflicting modules. But nothing much worked. So, in a word: if you want to go wireless on Reliance... don't go ZTE. At least not until China's second largest telecom hardware company decides to be more GNU/Linux friendly. Am not sure, but was told that Huawei also works, but haven't tried or seen this out myself. Just sharing this in case others are stuck at the same point that I have (along with others like Prof Prabhat Ranjan, who has tried quite a bit and given some useful online tips too). FN PS: ZTE, don't ignore GNU/Linux! > Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 15:51:00 +0530 > From: "Frederick Noronha" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [ilugd] QUERY: Will this solution work with a Reliance > ZTE datacard? > Output is same as this > http://www.plug.org.in/pipermail/plug-mail/2006-May/000283.ht ml > > On 14/11/06, Sudev Barar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 14/11/06, Frederick FN Noronha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Sudev, > > > Please advice... attached is a PDF which explains the issue (not sure > > > if it's for ZTE too). FN > > > > FN > > > > Can we keep this on the list? Others can ship in and also help? > > > > The procedure described in the way to go. That is why I have been > > asking out out of /var/log/messages (when card is inserted and then > > removed) to first determine if the module needs to be loaded or is > > already getting loaded and device assigned.... -- FN 9822122436 +91-832-240-9490 (phone calls after 1 pm please) _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
