Synopsis: The culprit is the username and password. Just use “internet” as both the username and password for connecting A few days ago, I was looking around for a wireless internet connection. I searched for various options and ended up choosing Tata Indicom as my service provider. I already had my hands on Reliance and BSNL. So I chose Tata. When I went to the Tata Indicom Centre near my place, they had a modem kept for demo. So, to [...]
Your modem is a peripheral device to Linux, like a CD-ROM drive, hard drive, or a mouse. Your modem will be connected to a serial port, which means that one of the serial devices in the /dev directory actually points to your modem. You may notice that there’s also a file, /dev/modem, which serves as a placeholder for your modem. Initially this file doesn’t point to anything. To simplify your operations, so that applications like minicomand seyon need only refer [...]
