Hey hey ppl I hope you are all having a fine day, well mine is going ok, its how do you say “So far so good” or my personal favorite “All izzzz Well ;) ” [If you are wondering where that quote is from, you obviously haven't seen 3 Idiots ;) ] anyway, the huge news is I bought a new USB modem and the brand I am sure its obvious from the title of this posting ;) I have to say of all the USB modems i’ve seen, Reliance is pretty much good for the money, not that I am advertising this for them or I work of them or anything if thats what you are thinking. But imagine this 3.1Mbps for a mere Rs.500 and my download speed zooming up dramatically city wise now thats power which you can’t buy ;) . Most of my class mates and friends own a BSNL data card which is awesome too but the coverage was very poor. This was the same case for my other friend who owns Tata Indicom Photon+. So regardless of speed , Reliance has an awesome coverage area which is what guy’s like me look for :) So there I was downloading movies and songs and tutors bla bla [if you are still wondering about speed , imagine downloading 4 movies in a mere single hour ;) ] in WINDOWS. If you are a tech geek, you would be smart to know that network connectivity is pretty less resource hungry in Linux than it is in Windows which is to say, Internet is much faster in Linux. So I couldn’t wait to configure my modem in Linux. So I ask my bsnl data card buddies to help me out here, but to my dismay their methods did not apply to Reliance netconnect well atleast not completely :( [BUMMER!!! i know ] So anyway I had to pull a few strings to finally figure out how to do it properly for my USB modem. So this post would be pretty useful to all you Reliance NetConnect users out there. So enough chitchat, lets talk business now shall we? ;)

Steps:

1. Boot into your Linux distro with your USB modem plugged into your USB port properly. [This step is very important, make sure there are no loose connections]
2. Now all the following steps requires Root level privileges, so make sure once you open the terminal in your linux you type in “su” [without quotes] and enter your     root password before continuing.
3. Once you have root level access, type in “lsusb” [without quotes] and hit enter, you should get the following on screen.

4. As you can see my USB modem is detected correctly as indicated by the first line of the result. Now there are certain numbers after ID which has vendor ID : product ID write down both in a piece of paper.

5. Next thing you have to do is to boot up the drivers and modules for your USB Modem as follows

6. Here in the place of vendor= 0x you should enter your vendor ID [the value before the colon] and in the place of product= 0x you should enter your product ID then hit enter, if all goes well you should have no errors or warnings. If you get a warning saying that “Deprecated modprobe.conf, all modules in the future bla bla” it simply means you have to go to the following path /etc/modprobe.d/ and rename the file blacklist to blacklist.conf and that should fix the warning message. The above warning if it does occur, is mostly on red-hat based linux distros 0_o I wonder why? ;)

7. Now make sure that your Modem’s LED is blinking twice every second, blinking once every second denotes no good configuration 0_o and you have to start over.

8. Now comes the most important step, open the file /etc/wvdial.conf and delete anything thats in there and save the file. Now in your root terminal type in the command “wvdialconf” [without quotes] and hit enter this should fill the wvdial.conf with the configurations based on your USB Modem. Open /etc/wvdial.conf again and you should have something like the following :

9. Remove any extra semicolons in that file and fill in the corresponding details based on your account in place of the <>. Finally save the file.

10. Now in the root terminal type in the command “wvdial” and hit enter . If all goes well your internet should by up and running. A successful connection is indicated when your remote ip, local ip, primary dns address and secondary dns address is displayed in your terminal.  DO NOT CLOSE THE TERMINAL AS LONG AS YOU WANNA STAY CONNECTED TO THE INTERNET.

11. If you wanna disconnect click on the root terminal and press Ctrl+C and thats it. Hope this tip helped you out as much as it did to me :) .

12. From the next time, just plug in the modem and type in wvdial in the terminal and your done.

AWKWARD SUGGESTION: If you haven’t installed wvdial package in your linux make sure you get the .deb file and install it before getting this over with. ;)