On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 2:28 PM, Narendra Sisodiya narendra@narendrasisodiya.com wrote:

2010/10/2 Dinesh Shah (દિનેશ શાહ/दिनेश शाह) dineshah@gmail.com:

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Narendra,

On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 11:56 AM, Narendra Sisodiya < narendra@narendrasisodiya.com> wrote:

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I have reliance netconnect broadband+ EC1260 which work very fine. How about other device. share your experience. Thanks

Can you confirm if the sending and receiving of SMS work on that device using any Open Source Software like Gnokii or Gammu?

I think there is difference between GSM/CDMA SIM adapter and data card. I do not know if we can transmit AT command to data card for sms or audio call. these are for internet connection. correct me ! I may be totally wrong

However, E160G reported to send sms http://tensixtyone.com/perma/howto-send-sms-using-a-huawei-e160g-and-debian

I have started a wikipage - http://www.lug-iitd.org/Mobile_Broadband_on_Linux Do edit.

I have a Reliance Netconnect Huawei EC1262 modem and an MTS Mblaze ZTE AC2766 modem.

I was successful in getting the Huawei modem connected on a native install of Ubuntu 10.04 earlier, through the Gnome Network Manager interface. However, after I switched laptops, I have been using Ubuntu from a USB pendrive with persistence, and the Huawei modem did not get connected. Later, I was able to connect with wvdial, but I don't have much experience to share about its quality or reliability.

I tried using both modems on my desktop with Mandriva Free 2010, but somehow trying the ZTE modem's inbuilt package and UI hosed up my X server, and (thanks to a bad 2010 Spring DVD from Linux4u), I had to eventually install OpenSuse 11.3 (Fedora 13 did not boot properly on my old system).

I tried using both the modems on Gnome under OpenSuse, but only the ZTE one works, without even having to install their UI or onboard package, through Network Manager. The Huawei EC1262 still does not work, although it does get recognized as a CDMA modem. I have been unable to use it with wvdial as well, because it or wvdialconf are unable to recognize it. I think the oft-quoted issue of the modem showing up with different IDs between uses is also experienced by me.

I don't have many nice things to say about the connection quality with MTS Mblaze, either on my desktop or my laptop. The Reliance connection has worked better for me.

Wiki page show, this modem is working   - http://www.lug-iitd.org/Mobile_Broadband_on_Linux

For reliance in wvdial.conf

Username = <TELNO> Password = <TELNO>

Derwyn

My point was that there is no consistency about the Huawei EC1262 modem getting to work with a particular setup.

You must consider the distro when it comes to hardware. For example, ubuntu

team spends a lot of resources to make hardware work on their flavor of linux.

Thanks GS

On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 1:25 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves lawgon@au-kbc.org wrote:

On Mon, 2010-10-04 at 13:14 +0530, Gourav Shah wrote:

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My point was that there is no consistency about the Huawei EC1262

modem

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getting to work with a particular setup.

You must consider the distro when it comes to hardware. For example,

ubuntu team spends a lot of resources to make hardware work on their flavor of linux.

so does the fedora team - and the mandriva team - and the opensuse team and the puppy team and [insert name of your favourite team here]

Before we board the train that's bound to be derailed soon, let us share our experience about the hard hacks we did to get a particular modem work with a particular setup.

Sorry for the continuous barrage, but here's another solution. I will try it and post experience.

http://harbhag.wordpress.com/2010/09/14/reliance-netconnect-broadband-on-ubu...

On Mon, 2010-10-04 at 15:10 +0530, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:

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Before we board the train that's bound to be derailed soon, let us share our experience about the hard hacks we did to get a particular modem

work

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with a particular setup.

this works for fedora (for bsnl 3g): http://www.zyxware.com/articles/1356/installing-bsnl-3g-usb-modem-in-ubuntu-...

I forgot to add:

bsnl 3g has a hybrid mode which drops to 2G where only 2G is available. This works fine in windows, but I could not get it to work in linux. So was without broadband in some areas. But usbmodeswitch does create ttyUSB0, ttyUSB1 and ttyUSB3. It then shuts down 0 and 1 and 3 runs fine if there is 3G available. I now have to find out how to get 2 to work when only 2G is available.

On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 3:10 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves lawgon@au-kbc.org wrote:

this works for fedora (for bsnl 3g):

http://www.zyxware.com/articles/1356/installing-bsnl-3g-usb-modem-in-ubuntu-...

Somehow, the MTS ZTE AC2766 modem has started working with the stock Ubuntu 10.04 network manager (pendrive version) as well as the new compiled-from source usb-modeswitch and usb-modeswitch data files as advised here

http://harbhag.wordpress.com/2010/09/14/reliance-netconnect-broadband-on-ubu... The sources are from http://www.draisberghof.de/usb_modeswitch/ and this site also talks about a script package here http://sakis.tel4u.gr/blog/sakis3g/ (I haven't tried the Sakis package)

However, the Reliance Huawei EC1262 did not work with either versions of usb-modeswitch from network manager, but now it is working with wvdial.

I still have to replicate this on OpenSuse before it can be called a success.

On Mon, 2010-10-04 at 15:53 +0530, Narendra Sisodiya wrote:

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http://www.zyxware.com/articles/1356/installing-bsnl-3g-usb-modem-in-ubuntu-...

Just curious - I have MTNL Sim 3G Dolphin Jadoo ,

What modems I can use with it.

On their website, I can see one http://mtnldelhi.in/dolphin/data_card.htm But it is advertised to be work with Windows and Mac. They have not mentioned Linux anywhere.

try the method in the link I gave