issue with reliance netconnect broadband

I tried all these methods :--

Method 1: The Out-Of-The-Box method

Getting internet connection working in this method is really a child’s play. Just follow these steps:

   1. The MUST thing first – Buy a Reliance Netconnect broadband USB device! :) Most probably it would be a huawei device and I assume it is.
   2. Plug-it in any available USB port.
   3. Ubuntu 10.04 should detect your device now. Now go to System -> Preferences -> Network connections and select the Mobile Broadband tab. You’ll see something like this:Screenshot-New Reliance Mobile Broadband Connection on Ubuntu 10.04
   4. From the above step, just follow whatever the wizard says (don’t worry! the wizard won’t ask you to jump from the building). Select India in Providers Country page and select Reliance in Provider page respectively.
   5. In the last window, give a name to the connection (Reliance for example) and then enter your USB device number which is nothing but the mobile number in the user name and password fields (yes, both are same). In the Number field, type #777 if it is not already there.Screenshot-Editing Reliance connection on Ubuntu 10.04
   6. If you want, you can check the Connect automatically check box.
   7. Now, click apply and you’re done. The connection should work now. If you didn’t select connect automatically then you can click on the network icon on the Ubuntu top bar and select your connection which you created just now.

Unfortunately, the above method did not work for me. So, I researched (googled, to be accurate) a bit more and found another way.
Method 2: The Do-It-Yourself way:

Since Ubuntu couldn’t come to my rescue, I have to make my hands dirty to get the connection working. Followed these steps:

   1. In order to manually connect with Reliance netconnect broadband we need two packages: wvdial (tool to make connections from a modem) and gnome-ppp (front end to the wvdial).
   2. These two packages have few dependencies too. Means you need to install all of them. Since you do not have an active internet connection yet on your machine, you cant apt-get anything. So, get a help from your friend who *might* be having an internet connection system and download the below packages.
          * libwvstreams4.6-base_4.6.1-1_i386.deb
          * libwvstreams4.6-extras_4.6.1-1_i386.deb
          * libuniconf4.6_4.6.1-1_i386.deb
          * wvdial_1.60.3_i386.deb
          * gnome-ppp_0.3.23-1ubuntu2_i386.deb
   3. Now bring the above downloaded files to your machine and install them (right click and select Open with GDebi package installer) in the above given order.
   4. Now open terminal window and give the command lsusb which will list all USB devices attached to the laptop,. You must see the Hauwei device listed there. And then give the command dmesg to see which port our model actually using. It would be something like TTYUSB0, TTYUSB1, etc.
   5. Now give the command sudo gnome-ppp to start the wvdial front end utility.Screenshot-GNOME PPP
   6. Now go to setup and in that window select the modem port (/dev/ttyUSB0 for example, which you must have seen in the 4th step using dmesg command) in the Device field and click detect. Your modem must be detected now. Then select Type as USB Modem and select the maximum available speed for the speed field.Screenshot-gnome-ppp-Setup
   7. Click close and come back to the gnome-ppp front window. Enter the username and password (which is your device number), #777 for the number and click connect. Now you should be connected.
   8. Here after, whenever you want to connect to internet, just open gnone-ppp and click connect. The settings must have been saved already.

Last time this method did the work :--

Reliance NetConnect issue with Ubuntu 10.04

Solution:

* Download “usb-modeswitch” and “usb-modeswitch-data” and install it. (If your Ubuntu system have no other way to connect to Internet, you can download on some other system and install here).

But this time i am unable to download usb-modeswitch

Since that method worked for you before and you've identified the step where you are experiencing problems now (downloading usb-modeswitch), let's focus on that and see if that method will work for you again.

Please describe in detail how you are attempting to download usb-modeswitch and what happens. Please include the full and exact text of any error messages. Please also clarify if you are unable to download usb-modeswitch-data as well, or if the problem really is confined to downloading usb-modeswitch.

i m getting this message when ever trying to download the package "usb-modeswitch" from this link

"http://packages.ubuntu.com/karmic/i386/usb-modeswitch/download"

Message "--

"Skip to content
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Error

two or more packages specified (usb-modeswitch karmic)

To report a problem with the web site, e-mail <email address hidden>. For other contact information, see the Ubuntu contact page.

Content Copyright © 2011 Canonical Ltd.; See license terms. Ubuntu is a trademark of Canonical Ltd. Learn more about this site.

"

What version of Ubuntu are you running? (If you're not sure, you can run "lsb_release -d" without the quotes in a Terminal window to find out.)

How do you know you need usb-modeswitch and usb-modeswitch-data?

And as I asked last time: Please also clarify if you are unable to download usb-modeswitch-data as well, or if the problem really is confined to downloading usb-modeswitch.

i am using ubuntu 10.04 LTS and 2 days back my laptop got crashed , when it crashed data card was working at that time , as u told i already installed usb-modeswitch-data , plz can i have ur direct mail or chat id, my id is <email address hidden>

Let's continue working on this using the forum. That way, other people will benefit as well.

I didn't see anything in what you said indicating that you had successfully installed usb-modeswitch-data. Looking back through your post, I still don't. Can you provide the link where you obtained that? The link you tried to use for usb-modeswitch was for the wrong version of Ubuntu (it was for Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala, and you have just told me you're running Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Lucid Lynx); if you provide the link you used to get usb-modeswitch-data, I can let you know whether or not that was also for the wrong version. (It could be for the wrong version, even if you were able to install it without problems, and that could potentially prevent things from working right or cause problems later.)

The correct (and properly up-to-date) package for usb-modeswitch in Ubuntu 10.04 is https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+archive/primary/+files/usb-modeswitch_1.1.0-2_i386.deb if you're running the 32-bit PC version of Ubuntu, or https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+archive/primary/+files/usb-modeswitch_1.1.0-2_amd64.deb if you're running the 64-bit PC version of Ubuntu. If you're not sure which you're running, open a Terminal window (Ctrl+Alt+T) and run "uname -m" (without the quotes). If it says i386, i586, i686, or IA32, then you're running the 32-bit PC version of Ubuntu. If it says x86_64 then you're running the 64-bit PC version of Ubuntu.

The correct package for usb-modeswitch-data in Ubuntu 10.04 is currently always https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+archive/primary/+files/usb-modeswitch-data_20100127-1_all.deb.

In case you're wondering, I got the links for those usb-modeswitch and usb-modeswitch-data packages at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/usb-modeswitch and https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/usb-modeswitch-data, respectively.

i am using i686 version and usb-modeswitch-data is already installed but i not found usb-modeswitch package can u plz tell me the exact package for i686"package name usb-modeswitch"

Since the output of "uname -m" is i686, you're using the 32-bit PC version of Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Lucid Lynx, so the correct package for usb-modeswitch is currently https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+archive/primary/+files/usb-modeswitch_1.1.0-2_i386.deb.

If you provide the link where you obtained usb-modeswitch-data, I can let you know whether or not you installed the correct package for that. Or are you saying that usb-modeswitch-data was already installed when you installed Ubuntu, and you *never* had to install it manually?

I would recommend you to first use reliance dialer in windows to activate your reliance data card in your computer if you have dual boot of windows then plug it in ubuntu .

Hi thanks for your suggestion's today i just upload the OS again after formatting the whole disk and after install the update when i connect the data card it start working automatically , and as i found that Huawei data card does not support the linux as we need to use ZTE ac 8710 is having the feature to support the linux automatically so i'll suggest use ZTE ac 8710 for reliance net connect

i want to connect my zte modem(ac2738) into my ubuntu 13.10(saucy).

can anybody help?