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.
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On 12/17/05, TAC Forums tac.forums@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.
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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.
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Dinesh Joshi wrote:
On Saturday 17 December 2005 15:23, Rony Bill wrote: *snip*
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 :|
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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On Mon, 2005-12-19 at 10:52 +0530, Rony Bill wrote:
Dinesh Joshi wrote:
On Saturday 17 December 2005 15:23, Rony Bill wrote: *snip*
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 :|
That was the name given to that wireless device that was automatically created by the live cd. Its properties showed that name.
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, ....
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.
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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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