Re: [LIH] Internet on go
Arun Khan <[email protected]>
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On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 10:40 AM, Vivek Varghese Cherian <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 10:44 AM, Arun Khan <knura-/[email protected]> wrote: >> On Tuesday 26 January 2010, H.S.Rai wrote: >>> To access Internet on Linux loaded laptop while travelling, which >>> technology and vendor's service is OK? >>> >> >> Buy one of the USB data card services. I have seen demos of the Tata >> Indicom Photon service in Mumbai; the download data rate was close to 2 >> Mb/s. >> >> -- >> Arun Khan > > Did you see it working on a laptop with FOSS ? > > The feedback from the Tata Indicom show room, when I inquired about > photon a while back was that they don't support "Linux". > I do no have either the Tata Photon+ or the Reliance RConnect (IIRC) but I believe FOSSers have been able to use them successfully with their Linux desktops. Google search "linux tata photon" throws up quite a few helpful links. The setup may not be as straight forward as running "setup.exe" and YMMV with hardware/firmware version in the devices. -- Arun Khan ------------------------------------------------------------------------------