On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 8:22 AM, Arun Khan <knu...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 10:40 AM, Vivek Varghese Cherian > <vivekcher...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 10:44 AM, Arun Khan <kn...@yahoo.com> wrote: >>> On Tuesday 26 January 2010, H.S.Rai wrote: >>>> To access Internet on Linux loaded laptop while travelling, which >>>> technology and vendor's service is OK? >>>> >>> >>> Buy one of the USB data card services. I have seen demos of the Tata >>> Indicom Photon service in Mumbai; the download data rate was close to 2 >>> Mb/s. >>> >>> -- >>> Arun Khan >> >> Did you see it working on a laptop with FOSS ? >> >> The feedback from the Tata Indicom show room, when I inquired about >> photon a while back was that they don't support "Linux". >> > > I do no have either the Tata Photon+ or the Reliance RConnect (IIRC) > but I believe FOSSers have been able to use them successfully with > their Linux desktops. Google search "linux tata photon" throws up > quite a few helpful links. > > The setup may not be as straight forward as running "setup.exe" and > YMMV with hardware/firmware version in the devices.
TATA Photon+ USB modem is the Huawei EC1260, which is supported "out of the box" in the latest Ubuntu. TATA has a guide for configuration here (you want to use vwdial, TATA as a provider is not yet supported in the NetworkManager - at least not last I looked): http://www.tataindicom.com/forums/showthread.php?t=3011 Expect a lot of variation in available bandwidth depending on your location. My own experience is that it is hard to keep network connection on GT Express Chennai-Delhi, but hardly how everyone travels :-) Regards, Soren Nellore ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list linux-india-help@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
