I’m now using reliance datacard in my hostel. Reliance provided me with LXU800 modem. When I tried installing it in ubuntu 9.04 using wvdialconf, expecting ubuntu to have the hardware support, it didn’t work. After playing around and some googling, I finally configured it and have put down the steps here.
First, make sure wvdial is installed. If not,
sudo apt-get install wvdial
To add the module usbserial into the kernel, type the following in the terminal.
sudo modprobe usbserial vendor='0xeab' product='0x9357'
The vendor and product serials are specific to LXU800 modem. If you are trying to configure any other modem, you would want to google to get the corresponding serials.
Now, we edit the file /etc/wvdial.conf
Open the above file in your favourite text editor with sudo. In the file, enter the phone number (mostly #777), username and password. Remove the semicolons, if any, at the beginning of each of these lines. Add the following line to the end of this file
Stupid mode = Yes
The modem has been configured successfully.
To dial, everytime you have to type the following three lines.
sudo modprobe usbserial vendor=’0xeab’ product=’0×9357′
sudo wvdialconf
sudo wvdial
To make things simpler, you can create a shell script with these lines and run it everytime you want to connect to the internet.
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