Well I will be discussing in this post about how to Connect GPRS on Linu (Fedora Core 6).....Its actually very easy to do this.....i did it on my Nokia N70 using USB data cable and its working perfectly fine.....
- First open up System->Administration->Network on your system
- Then click on Hardware and add New
- In The Hardware Type choose Modem and click Next
- In Modem Device type /dev/ttyACM0
- Choose Baud Rate as 460800
- Choose flow Of Control as Hardware(CRTSCTS) and click OK
- Then go to Device and click on new here too
- Choose Modem Connection from the list and click Forward
- Type in Phone No as *99#
- Give any suitable name in the Providers Name
- Give both Username and Password as "user" even if you think it is not needed
- Once the Device is included in the list Select it and click on Edit
- In the Modem Initialization String enter The Init String......If you dont have it call your customer care and they'll tell you what it is
THATS IT!! now click on your connection from the Device list and Activate and you are done.....
Sunday 27 May 2007
Thursday 3 May 2007
Linux For Me!
well.....its been a complete 3 months since my last post....I was a lot busy with another project which I am still working on and then my exams came up.....but now I am enjoying my vacations at the comfort of my home and am back to writing....
In this post I will talk about Linux concentrating more on Fedora Core 6.....well it was in Dec last year that I first decided to install FC6 on my laptop as I was hearing and reading about the Linux revolution and the open source community and so I was getting very curious about it.....
So, I caught hold of my friend who knew how to install Linux on computers and he thought me how to.....I tell you one thing....People thinking that installing Linux is to be done only by pros.....well you are completely wrong about it as I was too.....All the latest Linux distros (That's what all computer freaks like me call 'Distribution') have a very user friendly and easy step installation just like no no better than what windows XP has..... it just our phycology that we think that its not for us......
I can tell you one more thing.....Linux has come a long way from what it used to be......it used to be just like a command line OS like DOS but with a large contributions from the open source community it now has a very beautiful graphical interface.....wait but don't get carried away and go install it yet.....one thing on the downside of Linux is that it doesn't make it easy for you in the starting.....
since all of us are used to the typical windows like drives settings etc....it is a Little difficult to adjust with the new OS where all the same options and software's are available but the have been named or termed differently so you actually wont realise its there.....the only way to get use to it, according to me, is to use for as much time as possible.....
one thing great about FC6 is that it bundles along around 5-6 GB of open source software's which they considered are the best with the likes of FireFox, Gaim messenger etc..... It has almost all the tools for a developer from python to java, all are pre-installed...... it also has a range of tools for making your computer a server...... so you don't have to go around searching on the net for any.....
But on the downside this distro doesn't have any media player that supports mp3, mp4, avi etc.....now how dumb is that.....cant watch movies......cant play your favourite songs......well when I investigated on why the haven't bundled any players supporting it......I found out that there were some copyright issues that were to be used with these formats were of disinterest to the Fedora developers...... :((
So.....I had o go about searching a player myself and install it...... after investigating thoroughly for a month or so and found that for playing mp3 a player named XMMS was the perfect one......it looks and operates just like winamp for windows so its a perfect substitute for winamp users like me....... for playing video I downloaded VLC for Linux......Its perfect and the same as in windows......
Well there are many more problems I faced with respect to my hardware drivers as I have a DELL inspiron 6400 laptop.....so to get the driver for my ATI X1300 graphics card was the hardest and took me a month and a half to find out my driver and install it as my default resolution didn't look good..... also it was very difficult to get my Intel wireless card to work too...... In short if your PC or Laptop is a little new in market then you are going to have problems getting drivers for its hardware.....
My final say on this is that performance and developer wise LINUX really is far far ahead of Windows......but in case of user friendliness linux stands no chance at all......but with the amount of participation in the open source community increasing I am sure soon we'll see the user interaction on linux to improve..........
In this post I will talk about Linux concentrating more on Fedora Core 6.....well it was in Dec last year that I first decided to install FC6 on my laptop as I was hearing and reading about the Linux revolution and the open source community and so I was getting very curious about it.....
So, I caught hold of my friend who knew how to install Linux on computers and he thought me how to.....I tell you one thing....People thinking that installing Linux is to be done only by pros.....well you are completely wrong about it as I was too.....All the latest Linux distros (That's what all computer freaks like me call 'Distribution') have a very user friendly and easy step installation just like no no better than what windows XP has..... it just our phycology that we think that its not for us......
I can tell you one more thing.....Linux has come a long way from what it used to be......it used to be just like a command line OS like DOS but with a large contributions from the open source community it now has a very beautiful graphical interface.....wait but don't get carried away and go install it yet.....one thing on the downside of Linux is that it doesn't make it easy for you in the starting.....
since all of us are used to the typical windows like drives settings etc....it is a Little difficult to adjust with the new OS where all the same options and software's are available but the have been named or termed differently so you actually wont realise its there.....the only way to get use to it, according to me, is to use for as much time as possible.....
one thing great about FC6 is that it bundles along around 5-6 GB of open source software's which they considered are the best with the likes of FireFox, Gaim messenger etc..... It has almost all the tools for a developer from python to java, all are pre-installed...... it also has a range of tools for making your computer a server...... so you don't have to go around searching on the net for any.....
But on the downside this distro doesn't have any media player that supports mp3, mp4, avi etc.....now how dumb is that.....cant watch movies......cant play your favourite songs......well when I investigated on why the haven't bundled any players supporting it......I found out that there were some copyright issues that were to be used with these formats were of disinterest to the Fedora developers...... :((
So.....I had o go about searching a player myself and install it...... after investigating thoroughly for a month or so and found that for playing mp3 a player named XMMS was the perfect one......it looks and operates just like winamp for windows so its a perfect substitute for winamp users like me....... for playing video I downloaded VLC for Linux......Its perfect and the same as in windows......
Well there are many more problems I faced with respect to my hardware drivers as I have a DELL inspiron 6400 laptop.....so to get the driver for my ATI X1300 graphics card was the hardest and took me a month and a half to find out my driver and install it as my default resolution didn't look good..... also it was very difficult to get my Intel wireless card to work too...... In short if your PC or Laptop is a little new in market then you are going to have problems getting drivers for its hardware.....
My final say on this is that performance and developer wise LINUX really is far far ahead of Windows......but in case of user friendliness linux stands no chance at all......but with the amount of participation in the open source community increasing I am sure soon we'll see the user interaction on linux to improve..........
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