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Setting up the Tata Photon + on Ubuntu 10

By Benjy | Jul 28, 2010

This post has been pending for quite awhile. I had been using Windows 7 both on my home Desktop and Notebook for work related reasons and was not able to put my Photon + to the test on Ubuntu. The Tata Photon Plus USB mobile broadband modem supports TV, works well on Windows and the Mac out of the box and works with regular CDMA speeds outside the metros. So does it work on Ubuntu? It definitely does!

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Review: TV on Tata Photon +

By Benjy | Jul 13, 2010

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If you ended up here looking for instructions on setting up the Tata Photn + on Ubuntu, please click here. Technology keeps changing… After I replaced my Airtel EDGE data card with a Reliance USB modem, I breathed a sigh of relief, but not for long. I’m habituated to opening umpteen tabs on Firefox -a [...]

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Accelerated browsing through Squid on Ubuntu

By Benjy | Feb 16, 2010

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when I wake up in the morning, I find my phone “searching for network” with its battery almost flat! I don’t seem to have these problems with the Airtel card as the signal seems to be stronger and more “fade resistant” compared to CDMA. Its not pretty fast, but its faster than those idiotic over heating PCMCIA cards that Airtel pimped a while back which needed to be pulled out of the slot and reinserted ever so often in the summers as it was very susceptible to heat stroke…

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Setting up the Reliance Huawei EC121 USB Modem in Ubuntu 9.04

By Benjy | Oct 1, 2009

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Setting up the Reliance Huawei EC-121 is relatively easy compared to that of its cousin the ZTE 880.

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Instructions for setting up the Reliance Huawei EC325 USB Modem in Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope)

By Benjy | Jun 17, 2009

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Setting up the Reliance Huawei EC-325 is relatively easy compared to that of its cousin the ZTE 880.

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Setting up the Reliance ZTE MG 880 USB Modem in Ubuntu 9.04

By Benjy | Apr 30, 2009

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In Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope) the usbserial module is already part of the kernel. So we need to pass the Product and vendor id’s to the kernel at bootup.

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