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Connecting to mobile broadband is now just plug & play in Ubuntu 13.10

Ubuntu 13.10 had some serious bugs w.r.t mobile broadband connectivity when it was first released. Recent bug fixes and updates for Ubuntu 13.10 have chaged it all. My current tests on a Tata Indicom mobile broadband (Huawei EC1260) indicate that connecting to the internet with a usb mobile broadband dongle is as easy as plug and play […]

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[How To] Install Airtel mobile broadband datacard in Ubuntu 13.04

Recently I had the opportunity to install and test two of India’s most widely used Mobile broadband providers’ USB datacards on Ubuntu 13.04. The following steps will help anyone trying to install Airtel datacard software & drivers on Ubuntu 13.04. 1 . On insertion of the Airtel data card,  autorun  will pop up asking to run

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How to setup Reliance Netconnect mobile broadband connection in Linux

The datacard comes in a very small package which includes a mini cd and a usb cord. The cd contains the device driver for Windows , Mac and to my surprise , it also had a small file which to me looked like a USB driver for Linux. Me, being a primary Linux user, decided to give the datacard a try in my Ubuntu installation using the network manager’s connection wizard.

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