Even my friend is using BSNL BB in Ubuntu [USB], its working fine without any extra plug ins or anything...<br><br>Ubuntu by default detects USB modem [As per my knowledge].<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 2:43 PM, Manish Sinha <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:manishsinha.tech@gmail.com">manishsinha.tech@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="Ih2E3d">Ramnarayan.K wrote:<br>
> so how should he connect the modem - since his computer *does not have<br>
> an ethernet port*<br>
><br>
> should he used USB ??<br>
><br>
> ram<br>
</div>I am presently using BSNL Broadband and Router is from UTStarcom. The<br>
USB doesn't work out of box. They provide a CD which has drivers for USB<br>
provided both for Windows and Linux.<br>
Windows USB driver works perfectly but you have compile the USB driver<br>
for Linux. I did try it out many many times by installing hell lots of<br>
tools and kernel headers. Everytime it fails. I went to #ubuntu and<br>
asked my problem, even gave them the error log only to find out that the<br>
driver provided was for 2.4.x kernel.<br>
<br>
If he gets his USB connection working right that the pppoeconf command<br>
can connect him to the internet.<br>
I have another connection of Airtel which has Beetal router. USB for<br>
this works perfectly, creates an interface eth2 and loads the cdc_ether<br>
module to the kernel.<br>
So I can just assume that it depends on the router provided. Check this<br>
page from Ubuntu wiki.<br>
<a href="https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UsbAdslModem" target="_blank">https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UsbAdslModem</a><br>
USB adsl modems have always been problematic..<br>
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