Wednesday, May 7, 2008

establishing internet connection thorugh gprs in ubuntu

one of the difficulties with gnu/linux as many people have pointed out was lack of nokia pc suite for establishing a gprs internet connection. last day i have succesfully configured wvdial to work with a nokia phone with gprs internet facility. the solution is given below

connect the phone to pc thrugh usb data cable.
open a terminal and execute the command sudo wvdialconf /etc/wvdial.conf

read the echoed messages on the terminal.
the above command configures the /etc/wvdial.conf file to an extend.

open /etc/wvdial.conf (the command is
sudo gedit /etc/wvdial.conf)

on seeing the file one will able to identify the modifications to be made.

close the file.

inorder to connect to internet.
execute the command
wvdial

to terminate connection press cntrl + c

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