On 05/24/2010 10:40 AM, Vivek Varghese Cherian wrote: > On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 10:44 AM, Arun Khan<kn...@yahoo.com> wrote: > >> On Tuesday 26 January 2010, H.S.Rai wrote: >> >>> To access Internet on Linux loaded laptop while travelling, which >>> technology and vendor's service is OK? >>> >>> >> Buy one of the USB data card services. I have seen demos of the Tata >> Indicom Photon service in Mumbai; the download data rate was close to 2 >> Mb/s. >> >> -- >> Arun Khan >> > Did you see it working on a laptop with FOSS ? > > The feedback from the Tata Indicom show room, when I inquired about > photon a while back was that they don't support "Linux". > > In 2003 we have developed a utility to connect Reliance Mobile phones to Internet. Same has been used with minor modifications to use Tata Data Card as well.
I am using now Fedora 11/12 and we find that Reliance Data cards work with no effort. You plug them in and it would get recognized and allow you to connect. Does not even need phone number/password -probably uses some default settings. I have also seen Tata Photon mentioned in the supported device but never tried. I hope this info is useful. Thanks, - Prabhat Ranjan -- ******************************************************************** Prof. Prabhat Ranjan, Professor, Ph.D.(UC Berkeley), Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology (DA-IICT), Gandhinagar - 382007 (Gujarat) - India Web Page : http://www.daiict.ac.in Research Group : http://intranet.daiict.ac.in/~ranjan/research/ Phone : (079) 30510553 (Direct) (079) 30520000 (PBX) Fax : 91-79-30520010 ******************************************************************** ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list linux-india-help@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
