Dear all, Noorul has walked me through the whole thing and the end result is that I am sending this mail with my Airtel data card in Ubuntu 12.04. Problem solved!!
Thanks Noorul, and all those who offered help! Regards, Tapas On 2 September 2013 13:31, Noorul Islam K M <[email protected]> wrote: > "Tapas Ray [Gmail]" <[email protected]> writes: > >> On 29 August 2013 12:56, Tapas Ray [Gmail] <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> On 29 August 2013 12:45, Arun Khan <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> Great, but did the suggested solution work for you? >> >> >> >> Sorry, I could not do anything over the last few days. >> >> What I have done now is, follow the steps given on >> <http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=81942>. >> >> By running lsusb with and without the data card, I determined that >> "Bus 001 Device 004: ID 1c9e:9605 OMEGA TECHNOLOGY" is the device. >> >> The above format of the device code brought up by lsusb seems to >> indicate (according to the author) that my computer recognises the >> device as a modem. So I skipped Step 2 and went to Step 3 as advised >> by the author No go. So I went back to Step 2. Got the following with >> two attempts. What next? >> > > Try this > > /sbin/modprobe usbserial vendor=0x1c9e product=0x9605 > > Let me know if that works. If it does, then you can add an entry in udev > rules to automate it. > > Thanks and Regards > Noorul > _______________________________________________ > ILUGC Mailing List: > http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc > ILUGC Mailing List Guidelines: > http://ilugc.in/mailinglist-guidelines _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc ILUGC Mailing List Guidelines: http://ilugc.in/mailinglist-guidelines
