17 Dec
2005
17 Dec
'05
5:17 a.m.
Hey Guys
I'm hearing about Tata Indicom's new Wi-Fi service. They provide a
PCMCIA Wi-Fi CDMA card that allows you to make calls and be connected
to the Internet 24x7 from anywhere.
They say it supports Windows 98 SE, ME, 2000 and XP. Anyone tried it
on Linux yet? Any inputs / feedback on the same, please let us know.
Thanks
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17 Dec
17 Dec
8:35 a.m.
On 12/17/05, TAC Forums <tac.forums(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I'm hearing about Tata Indicom's new Wi-Fi
service. They provide a
PCMCIA Wi-Fi CDMA card that allows you to make calls and be connected
to the Internet 24x7 from anywhere.
They say it supports Windows 98 SE, ME, 2000 and XP. Anyone tried it
on Linux yet? Any inputs / feedback on the same, please let us know.
AFAIR the card is Sierra Aircard 555 costing Rs 14K approx. The sierra
website mentioned experimental support for Linux, the last time I
visited. You might want to check that out. Reliance offers the same
card at a similar cost. The call centre of both couldn't provide
details regarding Linux support.
vjp
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3:23 p.m.
TAC Forums wrote:
I'm hearing about Tata Indicom's new Wi-Fi
service. They provide a
PCMCIA Wi-Fi CDMA card that allows you to make calls and be connected
to the Internet 24x7 from anywhere.
Is this the same Sierra card that is provided by Reliance too? I did not
know it was a Wi-Fi network card. In one IBM laptop that has an RIL
card, I tried out the Ubuntu 5.10 live CD. It created an active network
icon in the task bar and it had already sent and received about 300
kbytes. We got scared that it might jeapordise his security so we
rebooted back to his installed OS. However, the device was called 'lo'
whatever that means. So I guess linux must be supporting this card.
There is no wireless lan in his vicinity so that device must have been
that card. Only support required would be the ppp software.
Try out the Ubuntu 5.10 live CD (December issue of LFY) and try setting
up your card on that.
Regards,
Rony.
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19 Dec
19 Dec
5:22 a.m.
Dinesh Joshi wrote:
On Saturday 17 December 2005 15:23, Rony Bill wrote:
*snip*
That was the name given to that wireless device that was automatically
created by the live cd. Its properties showed that name.
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called 'lo' whatever that means. So I
guess linux must be supporting
Eh? lo is the local loopback. Its there regardless of whether you have a
NIC or not :|
8:47 a.m.
On Mon, 2005-12-19 at 10:52 +0530, Rony Bill wrote:
Dinesh Joshi wrote:
As Dinesh has pointed out 'lo' is a loopback interface with address
127.0.0.1. BTW, which live CD gave 'lo' the properties of a wireless
device?
If "ifconfig -a" displays only the 'lo' interface then none of your
network devices have been loaded. FYI, ethernet NIC's get loaded as
eth0, eth1 ..., Wireless NICs get loaded as wlan0, wlan1, ....
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On Saturday 17 December 2005 15:23, Rony Bill
wrote:
*snip*
That was the name given to that wireless device that was automatically
created by the live cd. Its properties showed that name. called 'lo' whatever that means. So I
guess linux must be supporting
Eh? lo is the local loopback. Its there regardless of whether you have a
NIC or not :|
2:23 p.m.
New subject: [Bulk] Re: Tata indicom wi-fi service - does it work on Linux?
Arun K. Khan wrote:
As Dinesh has pointed out 'lo' is a loopback
interface with address
127.0.0.1. BTW, which live CD gave 'lo' the properties of a wireless
device?
If "ifconfig -a" displays only the 'lo' interface then none of your
network devices have been loaded. FYI, ethernet NIC's get loaded as
eth0, eth1 ..., Wireless NICs get loaded as wlan0, wlan1, ....
I know about the loopback localhost 127.0.0.1 thing. I even use it in
the /etc/hosts file to cut out bad and ad websites. I am only reporting
what I saw. There was a network icon in the task bar with active tx/rx
connection. On right clicking it, it had the name 'lo'. I was expecting
eth0 but that was not the case. We did not go to ifconfig as we were
worried about security or intrusion so we simply rebooted. It had
already done 300kbytes. It was a Ubuntu 5.10 live CD. If anyone else has
a lappy with the same card, they can try this cd. The client is in
imp/ex and his data was too precious to take any risks.
Regards,
Rony.
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20 Dec
20 Dec
1:03 p.m.
New subject: [Bulk] Re: Tata indicom wi-fi service - does it work on Linux?
On Monday 19 December 2005 14:23, Rony Bill wrote:
I know about the loopback localhost 127.0.0.1 thing. I even use it in
the /etc/hosts file to cut out bad and ad websites. I am only
reporting what I saw. There was a network icon in the task bar with
active tx/rx connection. On right clicking it, it had the name 'lo'.
I was expecting eth0 but that was not the case. We did not go to
ifconfig as we were worried about security or intrusion so we simply
rebooted. It had already done 300kbytes. It was a Ubuntu 5.10 live
CD. If anyone else has a lappy with the same card, they can try this
cd. The client is in imp/ex and his data was too precious to take any
risks.
Something was surely fishy. Instead of relying on the GUI, you should've
checked out the ip / mac address of the wireless interface. If it is lo
then there is no way the wifi card was active. As I always stress,
never believe the GUIs always use the command line to verify whether
the GUI is telling you the truth or lying :P
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