Dear Pluggies,

I am still trying to configure my friend's Reliance phone.  But I did
not realize it is a bit mor complicated. To clarify, the question is
about connecting a fixed wirelesss cdma phone and NOT cdma mobile using
SuSe 9.1. 

Reliance calls the service Fixed Wireless and Tata Indicom calls it
"Walky". For Reliance the phone model number is: LG LSP 340E, for Tata
it is  LG LSP 345. She visited the Reliance and Tata dealers in
Ahmednagar and was told that it was not possible to connect to internet
using Linux with these phones, that the inbuilt modem did not work in
Linux.  They could be gotten to dial okay, but then the connection could
not be completed.

The Tata guy (who was the more knowledgeable -- had tried to get some
local college students to connect using Linux but they were not
successful).  He said you could connect using a Reliance CDMA mobile but
not with the fixed wireless.  Searching Google found a few hits about
this but none of them seem conclusive in terms of successfully
connecting and some of them only apply to CDMA mobiles. The recent
PCQuest article was also only about cdma mobiles.

Has anyone had any luck with ANY distro and the fixed/Walky type of
phone?  

This is turning into an interesting adventure.  The Tata dealer showed
interest in linux since in the past year he had had to format his hard
drive three times due to viruses - despite having antivirus software and
updating it frequently! Thanks, Gus.




--
______________________________________________________________________
Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List:      ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
List Information:  http://plug.org.in/mailing-list/listinfo/plug-mail
Send 'help' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for mailing instructions.

Reply via email to