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

[Prakash Advani]

Thanks Moz,

Has anyone tried the BSNL one which claims to have a speed of 7.2 Mbps?

We should put all this info on the Wiki.. I plan to blog about it soon.

Regards
Prakash

Moz wrote:
> 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
>
>   

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