Fred,
I got my hands on a Huawei Data Card from Reliance. This works
nicely in Linux.
Hope this may help you.
Thanks,
- Prabhat Ranjan
Frederick Noronha wrote:
> It would be nice if hackers in the GNU/Linux community could help to
> spread awareness about data-cards, laptops and GNU/Linux. As you know,
> data-cards are increasingly becoming a way of getting Net access via
> your laptop in anywhere, anytime mode. Hence they could have growing
> relevance.
>
> LFY carried an article in its July 2006 issue, offering detailed
> instructions of how an Airtel Sierra Card can be made to work with
> GNU/Linux.
>
> But, as things stand, many of the cards are unsupported. I tried a ZTE
> (made-in-China card) with Reliance on Ubuntu, and it just refused to
> work. Sierra cards are out of stock with Reliance here, I was told,
> though given alternate information earlier.
>
> Airtel says Sierra isn't available, and were offering a Vodafone
> datacard, which proudly says "Airtel Data card works on Windows
> 2000/XP/XP Tablet/XP Pro".
>
> If you know of any option (keeping in mind that I live in Goa, with
> limited hardware availability) please share your notes with me. I
> really need a datacard to get access to mobile computing, specially
> when travelling. FN
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