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On Feb 18th, I finally bought Reliance Netconnect Broadband+ after a lot of research. The main thing that made me buy this product was that due to certain reasons I was not able to install other USB Modems on my Windows 7 OS. I was not able to install IDEA net setter , neither Tata Photon Plus. But Reliance Netconnect was getting installed (used my brothers USB for 15 days), and hence I decided to buy it.

The trouble started when after buying Reliance Netconnect Data card (Huawei EC150), I was not able to install it on Windows 7 and hence I decided to switch to some other OS and then came Ubuntu to my rescue. I tried installing it on Ubuntu and there was no installer provided for the same. After searching I came to know that Ubuntu does not supports Modems, and hence was not identifying my Modem. After trying for 28 Hours, I finally succeeded in Installing Huawei Modem on Ubuntu. If you are facing the same problem, follow these steps:

1–> Open the terminal and run this command:

sudo apt-get update

2–> Now we need to install wvdial, so run the following command:

sudo apt-get install wvdial

3–> Now we need to install libusb-dev so run the following command

sudo apt-get install libusb-dev

4–> Now we need to download usb-modeswitch and usb-modeswitch-data so go to the following links

usb_modeswitch, usb_modeswitch-data.

Download both the files and save them on your computer.

5–> Now extract both the files.

6–> Change your directory to usb-modeswitch directory and run the following command:

sudo make install

7–> Now run the following command:

sudo gedit /etc/usb_modeswitch.conf

It will open a file in gedit, remove all content in the file(if any) and then paste this text:

# Configuration for the usb-modeswitch package, a mode switching tool for # USB devices providing multiple states or modes # This file is evaluated by the wrapper script "usb_modeswitch" in /lib/udev # To enable an option, set it to "1", "yes" or "true" (case doesn't matter) # Everything else counts as "disable" # Disable automatic mode switching globally (e.g. to access the original # install storage) DisableSwitching=0 # Enable logging (results in a extensive report file in /var/log, named # "usb_modeswitch_" EnableLogging=1 # Huawei, newer modems DefaultVendor= 0x12d1 DefaultProduct=0x1446 TargetVendor= 0x12d1 TargetProduct=140b CheckSuccess=5

Now save the file.

8–> Now run the following command and it will again open gedit and paste the above text in it again and save it.

sudo gedit /etc/usb-modeswitch.conf

9–> Now run the following command:

sudo gedit /etc/wvdial.conf

It will again open gedit. Now you need to paste the following text in it:

[Dialer netconnect]

New PPPD = yes Init1 = ATZ Init2 = ATQ0 V1 E1 S0=0 &C1 &D2 +FCLASS=0 Modem Type = USB Modem Baud = 460800 New PPPD = yes Modem = /dev/ttyUSB0 ISDN = 0 Username = 93******** Password = 93********* Phone = #777 Stupid Mode = 1 Auto DNS = 1 Check Def Route = 1

Change the username and password with your 10 digit MDN number given on the box of the data card. Now save the file and reboot your computer.

10–> After rebooting your computer, wait for 5-6 seconds and then insert your datacard. Now notice the Internet connection notifier at upper right corner of your screen. If it is trying to identify the network then do nothing and wait for connect to establish. If it doesn’t try to identify any network then run this command:

sudo wvdial netconnect

After you run this command you will see something like this

–> Using interface ppp0

 --> local IP address 115.242.127.250 --> remote IP address 220.224.141.129 --> primary DNS address 202.138.97.193 --> secondary DNS address 202.138.117.60

Open your browser and enjoy!