How to Configure Tata Indicom Photon+ and Reliance NetConnect Broadband+ on Ubuntu or Any Linux OS

Tata Indicom Photon+ offer Huawei or Olive
Reliance Netconnect Broadband+ offers a choice of  Huawei and ZTE.
Reliance Huawei was the only one that works out of the box on Ubuntu and gets detected as  /dev/ttyUSB0.
After that you can edit /etc/wvdial.conf and put the following lines.


[Dialer Defaults]
Modem = /dev/ttyUSB0
Username = yournumber
Phone = #777
Password = yournumber
New PPPD = yes
Stupid mode = yes


Replace yournumber with your number (provided at the back of the box).
ZTE didn’t even get detected,  and strangely enough there was no message on dmesg either.
lsusb shows: Bus 005 Device 002: ID 19d2:fff6
Tata Indicom Photon+ (Huawei based) also didn’t get detected.
lsusb shows:
Bus 005 Device 009: ID 12d1:140b Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.


Moz has tried this and has got this working using the following steps.

$ sudo modprobe usbserial vendor=0x12d1 product=0x140b
$ sudo mknod /dev/ttyUSB0 c 188 0
$ sudo mknod /dev/ttyUSB1 c 188 1
Add the following lines to the /etc/wvdial.conf, customise phone number, username and password as per advise of TataIndicomm.
[Dialer Defaults]
Modem = /dev/ttyUSB0
Init1 = ATZ
Phone = #777
Username = cdma
Password = cdma
New PPPD = yes
Stupid Mode = 1
Try connecting with sudo wvdial
If you want a graphical dialer, install gnome-ppp
Go into setup, select your modem as /dev/ttyUSB0


Put your login/password depending on the service provider. Put the number as #777 and you are ready to connect.

1. Install “wvdial” if you do not have it already. To install wvdial, use the command:

   sudo apt-get install wvdial

2. Next, plug in your Tata Indicom USB Modem.
3. Now, create a dialer for your modem with the command:

   sudo wvdialconf /etc/wvdial.conf

   This creates the appropriate dialer configuration for your modem. Remember to keep the modem plugged in while running this command.
4. Edit the wvdial.conf file by issuing

   sudo vi /etc/wvdial.conf

5. Your wvdial.conf file opens on issuing the above command. It should look like this :

   [Dialer Defaults]
   Init1 = ATZ
   Init2 = ATQ0 V1 E1 S0=0 &C1 &D2 +FCLASS=0
   Init3 = AT+CRM=1
   Stupid Mode = 1
   Modem Type = Analog Modem
   Phone = 0
   ISDN = 0
   Password = 
   New PPPD = 
   Username = internet
   Modem = /dev/ttyUSB0
   Baud = 9600

6. Now you have to edit the file. Put “internet” in place of and . Do not change any other auto-generated entry. Place the appropriate phone number in place of 0. It is #777 for Tata Indocom.

That should complete setting up your dialer. Now, to dial a connection, simply execute

sudo wvdial

in a terminal window. Enjoy.
[ In case it still does not work, add the lines:

Init3 = AT+CRM=1

and

Stupid Mode = 1

Stupid mode allows the connection to dial through a firewall and Init3 = AT+CRM=1 prevents frequent disconnections.

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