[PLUG] wireless datacard not working

[Sharique uddin Ahmed Farooqui]

On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 12:12 AM, Aditya Godbole <aag.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 9:10 PM, Sharique uddin Ahmed Farooqui
>  <safknw at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > hi,
>  >
>  >  I have a Compaq laptop (Celeron) . I have Huwei (Tata Indicom) data card.
>  >  It is detected properly and able to get connected . I'm using kppp dialer.
>  >  But I'm not able to surf. I doesn't open any page. Gives page not found.
>  >
>
>  Is this a USB card or PCMCIA?
It is PCMCIA. For dial-up, kppp automatically set DNS entries.

>For the USB cards at least, make sure
>  you dont wait for the dialtone. There is an option to do that in KPPP.
>  One way of finding out whether you are actually connected is to ping
>  202.54.10.2 which is the Tata Indicom DNS server. If all goes fine
>  till here, try manually setting the DNS entries. But Tata Indicon ppp
>  gives the dns entries (at least on my usb based connection). So there
>  is less chance that you might have to manually set the DNS entries.
>
>  -aditya
>
>
>
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