"<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">that are needed when I use the 3G dongle on a Windows box" </span><div><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br>
</span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">please read it as *that are "not" needed"</span></div><div><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif"><br>
</font></div><div><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">Regards,</font></div><div><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">Jv<br></font><br>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 9:12 PM, RJV <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jv.ravichandran@gmail.com" target="_blank">jv.ravichandran@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div>Hi Jerry,</div><div><br></div><div>Is this a response to my question? If yes, mine is a XO 1.75 C2 and since I am new to Sugar and OLPC, I am not very good at the various versions.</div><div><br></div><div>What I can tell you is that I have been through the Network Manager but it asks for details (like username, password etc) that are needed when I use the 3G dongle on a Windows box and which are not provided by the provider (India telecom provider - Airtel)</div>
<div><br></div><div>I thought of using the wvdial to set it up but do you mean that I can plug in the dongle and it will plug and play? I did not want to try it because of the mishap with the SD card.</div><div><br></div>
<div>Jv</div><div class="im HOEnZb"><div><br></div>>>I can help you with this part, my 3G dongle is 100% working but on<br>OLPC-AU images so there might be some small differences here.<br><div><br></div><br></div><div class="HOEnZb">
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On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 8:48 PM, Jerry Vonau <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jvonau@shaw.ca" target="_blank">jvonau@shaw.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div>On Mon, 2012-10-08 at 19:42 +0530, RJV wrote:<br>
> Mikus, I am sorry, too, that you found it SO important to answer an<br>
> email that is not to your wavelength. Btw, your email looks like human<br>
> spam to me so marking your email id for spam and is so offensive in<br>
> tone that I have a good mind to withdraw from this list. Did I forget<br>
> to mention that I did not read more than three lines of your enail.<br>
><br>
><br>
> Do not reply to this email.<br>
><br>
><br>
> For the rest in this list, this email from Mikus is far too spiteful<br>
> in tone for anyone to ignore. Will somebody care to explain unless of<br>
> course if the email is okay as per the question.<br>
><br>
<br>
</div>Think we might need some clarification of what you tried to do and if<br>
you have sugar and/or gnome working or are you stuck at at command<br>
prompt somehow?<br>
<br>
<snip><br>
<div><br>
><br>
><br>
> DID I FORGET WHICH OS BUILD YOU HAVE INSTALLED?<br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
> I need to run a 3G (Airtel - Indian telecom provider)<br>
> and may need<br>
> some help on this.<br>
><br>
<br>
</div>I can help you with this part, my 3G dongle is 100% working but on<br>
OLPC-AU images so there might be some small differences here.<br>
<div><br>
<br>
><br>
> Given the kind of questions you are asking, I would __STRONGLY<br>
> ADVISE__ you NOT to try using an XO for this purpose:<br>
><br>
> The only way an XO can talk directly to 3G is with a<br>
> "dongle". But the "dongle" will need software. [You can only<br>
> _hope_ that wvdial.rpm is the only significant item of<br>
> software you would need to pick up yourself.] That software<br>
> will almost certainly require 'dependencies' to be installed<br>
> in the operating system - will they be available? And will<br>
> all the needed software run on an XO? Is the wvdial.rpm that<br>
> you downloaded even meant for the ARM architecture? [Remember<br>
> that (non-Android) ARM-CPU operating systems have only<br>
> recently arrived for general distribution.]<br>
><br>
> There may also be difficulties tying in the Network Management<br>
> in an XO with a connection through 3G. [I myself am currently<br>
> using an ethernet (wired) path to the internet from my XO-1.75<br>
> - but that takes advantage of me having four years of<br>
> experience using ethernet with XOs - others might encounter<br>
> hurdles.]<br>
><br>
> In any case, I myself am not an user of 3G (i.e., cellular<br>
> data). So I do not expect to be able to help you. [I do have<br>
> an Android tablet - and you have no idea of how many people<br>
> have posted to its support forum about problems setting up<br>
> good 3G service.]<br>
><br>
<br>
</div>NetworkManager handles the 3g connections just fine though<br>
modem-manager, no need to add any other software.<br>
<span><font color="#888888"><br>
Jerry<br>
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</font></span></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div></div></div><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">-- <br>Regards,<br><br>Ravichandran Jv<br><a href="http://ravichandranjv.blogspot.com" target="_blank">http://ravichandranjv.blogspot.com</a><br>
</div></div></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br>Regards,<br><br>Ravichandran Jv<br><a href="http://ravichandranjv.blogspot.com">http://ravichandranjv.blogspot.com</a><br>
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