Vimal Joseph wrote:
The Huawei EC321 Datacard works perfectly with GNU/Linux. Both reliance and tata Indicom have this card. I'm not sure about Airtel.
Reliance has discontinued the Huawei PCMCIA card. It only has ZTE, which does *not* work with Linux. I burnt my hands on this. Reliance however still has a Huawei USB external modem, which might work.
But whatever you do, do *not* take ZTE under any circumstances as this Chinese manufacturer doesn't care a hoot about Linux compatibility or standards. The chip used inside ZTE cards have some issues that even kernel developers haven't been able to work with yet. I remember a mail thread between the professor who was associated with Reliance's Linux clients in the early years, trying to work with the kernel guy who had worked on the chips that ZTE uses. The discussion reached nowhere because the ZTE version of the chip worked weirdly.
- Sandip