On Mon, 2012-10-08 at 19:42 +0530, RJV wrote: > Mikus, I am sorry, too, that you found it SO important to answer an > email that is not to your wavelength. Btw, your email looks like human > spam to me so marking your email id for spam and is so offensive in > tone that I have a good mind to withdraw from this list. Did I forget > to mention that I did not read more than three lines of your enail. > > > Do not reply to this email. > > > For the rest in this list, this email from Mikus is far too spiteful > in tone for anyone to ignore. Will somebody care to explain unless of > course if the email is okay as per the question. >
Think we might need some clarification of what you tried to do and if you have sugar and/or gnome working or are you stuck at at command prompt somehow? <snip> > > > DID I FORGET WHICH OS BUILD YOU HAVE INSTALLED? > > > > I need to run a 3G (Airtel - Indian telecom provider) > and may need > some help on this. > I can help you with this part, my 3G dongle is 100% working but on OLPC-AU images so there might be some small differences here. > > Given the kind of questions you are asking, I would __STRONGLY > ADVISE__ you NOT to try using an XO for this purpose: > > The only way an XO can talk directly to 3G is with a > "dongle". But the "dongle" will need software. [You can only > _hope_ that wvdial.rpm is the only significant item of > software you would need to pick up yourself.] That software > will almost certainly require 'dependencies' to be installed > in the operating system - will they be available? And will > all the needed software run on an XO? Is the wvdial.rpm that > you downloaded even meant for the ARM architecture? [Remember > that (non-Android) ARM-CPU operating systems have only > recently arrived for general distribution.] > > There may also be difficulties tying in the Network Management > in an XO with a connection through 3G. [I myself am currently > using an ethernet (wired) path to the internet from my XO-1.75 > - but that takes advantage of me having four years of > experience using ethernet with XOs - others might encounter > hurdles.] > > In any case, I myself am not an user of 3G (i.e., cellular > data). So I do not expect to be able to help you. [I do have > an Android tablet - and you have no idea of how many people > have posted to its support forum about problems setting up > good 3G service.] > NetworkManager handles the 3g connections just fine though modem-manager, no need to add any other software. Jerry _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
