On Tue, 2007-12-18 at 15:36 +0530, Vikas Rawal wrote: [...] > I was in a Reliance store yesterday trying to find out what they > have. This particular store had a usb modem of ZTE make which clearly > said compatible with "Windows 2000, XP and Vista". What make is your > model and how does one know if the one they are giving you would be > compatible or not?
I have a Huawei EC325 that I know for sure works. I think the ZTE ones should also work. Just plug it in to your Linux box, and run wvdialconf to find it (should be something like /dev/ttyUSB0). This will also create /etc/wvdial.conf which you can edit to add username/password. Thereafter, run wvdial to connect. Even without a username/password, if wvdialconf finds the modem, and wvdial at least tries to connect, you should be home free. The shop should allow you to do at least this much. > People at this particular store had no idea what linux was. One of > them thought it was a laptop brand and another thought it was some > software used by defence services!! Yeah, they have no clue about Linux. I have been meaning to walk into a Tata Indicom store, and demand support for my Linux laptop. By the way they are actually correct in the latter instance: The Indian Navy is heavily into Linux these days, to the tune of several thousand installations of BossLinux. Regards, Gora _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Next Event: http://freed.in - February 22/23, 2008 Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
