[ubuntu-in] Advice for 3G data card

Narendra Diwate narendra.diwate at gmail.com
Tue Apr 16 12:08:30 UTC 2013


Just thought of updating this thread.

I bought a Huawei E3131B data card/dongle and it works fine without
any difficult configuration on Fedora/LMDE/Ubuntu/C#!/Opensuse.

Just that I could not figure out how to use the SoftWifi feature of
the dongle on Linux. Any ideas?

On 2/12/13, Alok Singh Mahor <alokmahor at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 7:08 AM, Narendra Diwate
> <narendra.diwate at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Am looking at buying a 3G data card and have shortlisted the Huawei E303
>> HiLink, E303C and E3131 with soft wifi. I will be using it with a Debian
>> Testing based system. The E3131 come with Wifi, while the other 2 do not
>> and hence I am veering towards that. Huawei's website claims E303 Hilink
>> does not need configuration even in Linux.
>>
>> Would be grateful for any advice, specifically which of these is easier
>> to
>> configure/make it to work on Debian, how to get it to work and any links
>> for solutions that you have found to be working.
>>
>> Suggestions of any other brands/models are also welcome.
>> --
>> Regards
>>
>> Narendra Diwate
>>
>>
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>> go for any 3G USB modem that are available in india. all will work on
>> linux
>


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Regards

Narendra Diwate



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