[ubuntu-in] Tata Photon on Ubuntu 11.04 Natty

[Sanjay Bhangar]

On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 3:29 PM, Ramnarayan.K <ramnarayan.k at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 12:27 PM, Sanjay Bhangar <sanjaybhangar at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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>> Hi,
>>
>> I installed Natty on a friend's laptop. I will try to write a separate
>> email about little issues faced with the unity desktop shell, but a
>> big issue faced is that I cannot seem to get Tata Photon+ to connect
>> to the internet.
>>
>> I plug in the device and Network Manager recognizes a new CDMA Mobile
>> Broadband device. I click on it and configure the provider (India ->
>> Tata Photon Plus). After this, network manager shows the state where
>> it is trying to connect to the network, and remains in that state,
>> without successfully connecting. usb-modeswitch and
>> usb-modeswitch-data are both installed.
>>
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> have you tried wvdial / gnome ppp to see if its a device compatibility error
> oe a network manager error
>

It would be highly appreciated if you can help me with some pointers
of what exactly to 'try' in wvdial / gnome-ppp. I have vague memories
of hacking on wvdial and gnome-ppp years ago and afraid those memories
are fuzzy and not such good memories :( - for the past year or so,
touch-wood, I have just plugged in a Photon and it has  worked with
clicking a few buttons on the GUI, so I'm really completely out of
touch with debugging these things. Any specific tips / links to
articles would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Sanjay