Do those USB thingies from Idea Cellular work on Fedora (or, any Linux) ?

[sankarshan]

I was planning to get one and hence the pre-purchase check.

[shantanu choudhary]

Hello sankarshan,

i am myself using airtel data card(with both fedora and ubuntu), which fits
in pcmcia slots, and have seen other people use usb(specifically idea one)
things with Linux.
Yes they work pretty fine, you can use both wvdial or pppd to connect to
internet via those cards.

[Ankur Sinha]

On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 12:30 PM, shantanu choudhary wrote:
> Hello sankarshan,
>
> i am myself using airtel data card(with both fedora and ubuntu), which fits
> in pcmcia slots, and have seen other people use usb(specifically idea one)
> things with Linux.
> Yes they work pretty fine, you can use both wvdial or pppd to connect to
> internet via those cards.
>
> --
> Regards
> Shantanu Choudhary
>
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hi,
can you post how you got it to work? I remember someone enquiring at the
forums or somewhere..
regards,
Ankur

[Rahul Sundaram]

shantanu choudhary wrote:
> Hello sankarshan,
>
> i am myself using airtel data card(with both fedora and ubuntu), which 
> fits in pcmcia slots, and have seen other people use usb(specifically 
> idea one) things with Linux.
> Yes they work pretty fine, you can use both wvdial or pppd to connect to 
> internet via those cards.

Ideally, we need it to work by just plugging it in. Fiddling with wvdial 
is sub-optimal. If you have the configuration details, please file a RFE 
against NetworkManager in http://bugzilla.redhat.com.

Rahul