On Fri, May 21, 2004 at 06:51:13PM +0530, N S Srikanth wrote:
>
> I intend to purchase a Reliance Fixed Wireless Phone (FWP). It
> contains an inbuilt modem. It can be used to connect to WEb and
> surf.
>
I have a FWP of Reliance and have been using it to connect to
the net as a standby measure, when cable mode is down or I need
to connect from a laptop from some place which has no other
mode for connection. IMHO, it is not very economical for
regular use. Speed is comparable with cable at Bangalore.
> In their website, it details the steps to connect to R World
> and mentions the compatible OS's as Win 98, 2000 and XP. Linux
> is not mentioned.
There used to be command line rconnect rpm package for RH-8
earlier. Don't know about current status. I had made small
alterations for it to work under Slack, and it is working fine
under Slack 9.1 presently and on my LFS system.
>
> I asked their marketing people here in Trivandrum. First
> response was " it will not work in Linux". Then they told that
> they will enquire and get back to me. I very much doubt whether
> their marketing people will come up with a solution to an
> involved technical problem.
>
I got simlar reponse from the Reliance marketing folk. I had
googled for "rconnect+linux" or something like that which led
me to a PC Quest page which gave the correct link on Reliance
site. That was almost 7-8 months ago.
> Is it possible to use REliance FWP in Linux? If this issue is
> already discussed with solutions, can somebody post a link?
Yes, it is possible to use Reliance FWP under Linux. IIRC,
there were some discussions on this subject on LIH quite some
time ago though I don't recall if it was specifically FWP or
CMDA. I forget the link from where I downloaded the rpm. Just
google, and you would find. In case you are on Slack I could
send you my modified tarball.
HTH
Bish
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