dear ilug-d troops, did about 12 hours of googling and research, but the final steps were real easy AFTER i did a painless, smooth, three-click install of ubuntu on an acer celeron laptop.
the correct steps that work, are provided by our own nishant sharma, at this site: http://nishants.net/articles/sierra.htm thanks nishant. you are the game, the game is you. a tip 'o the hat to vivek khurana and prabind kumar singh, a.k.a prem. the steps by nishant were for reliance. i just added the username, pass, phone, for tata indicom, and it worked brilliantly the first time. ok, do you also wonder that tata is a strange name for a telephony service? 'hello, this is tata.' and if tata ties up with ebay, what do you get? 'hello, tata, and buy-buy?' overall, tata's service is quite relianc^d^d er... tata's service is quite reliable. i experience almost instant connection, but have to test it in the indian outbacks, ar away from urban madness, on a dusty road somewhere. next steps: 1. wish to make and receive ordinary phone calls from this card. what do i need? i don't even know if i need a headset that jams into the sound and mic port of the laptop, or a special one that plugs into the aircard. what software? 2. any way of sending and receiving sms? fyi, the laptop only has debian and ubuntu. will install agnula, and leave a spare partition or two for the random distro or LFY distro of the month. 3. gotta go and install skype. by the way, just discovered somewhere that the *.deb package of skype is flawed to run on deb or ubuntu. so get the *.rpm package, run alien to make it into a deb, and install that. 4. webconferencing. any tips on webcam hardware, and which software is ideal for a webconference with ppl over multiple platforms? am okay with slow frame-rates and postage-sized video. just wanna look into the eyeballs of people i wanna interact with. "better to see the face than to hear the words." - old zen saying. :-) niyam ps: if anyone's got stickers of any linux LUG, FSF, or other langars, please share with me. wanna splatter the laptop outer surfaces with indian lugs, glugs, .orgs. will be easy to spot, and hopefully a bit difficult, to misplace or steal such a laptop. _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- [email protected] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
