[ubuntu-in] Tata Indicom Photon+ / Reliance NetConnect on Ubuntu

[Moz]

Hi Prakash

Prakash Advani wrote:
> As you would have seen there are these new high speed data cards by Tata
> and Reliance.
>
> I have tested both Tata Indicom Photon+ / Reliance NetConnect on Ubuntu.
> I didn't get much time to test but this is my initial feedback.
>
> They claim to offer 2-3 Mbps but in reality offer 300-700Kbps.
>
> Reliance Netconnect offers a choice of  Huawei and ZTE.
>
> Huawei was the only one that works out of the box and gets detected as
> ttyUSB0.
>
> ZTE didn't even get detected, no message on dmesg.
>
> lsusb shows: Bus 005 Device 002: ID 19d2:fff6
>
> Tata Indicom Photon+ also didn't work.
>
> lsusb shows:
>
> Bus 005 Device 009: ID 12d1:140b Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
>
> Has anyone had any different experience or is able to make any of the
> others to work?
>
>   
Perhaps the Photon+ might work with the following, I have used the 
following method with other Huawei products:

Do the following at a bash prompt:

:~$ sudo modprobe usbserial vendor=0x12d1 product=0x140b
:~$ sudo mknod /dev/ttyUSB0 c 188 0
:~$ sudo mknod /dev/ttyUSB1 c 188 1

Add the following lines to the /etc/wvdial.conf, customise phone number, 
username and password as per advise of TataIndicomm.

:~$ cat /etc/wvdial.conf
[Dialer Defaults]
Modem = /dev/ttyUSB0
Init1 = ATZ
Phone = #777
Username = cdma
Password = cdma
New PPPD = yes
Stupid Mode = 1

Try connecting with sudo wvdial

Moz