I have bought a new Tata Docomo Photon 3G Dongle and I want to use it from Ubuntu 12.04.
When I connect the device, its detected but I don't know how to install the software packed within it or connect to internet.
I tried searching for the packages in Ubuntu Software Center but it doesn't work.
I tried manually adding the device in Mobile Broadband section, using different APNs and Service provider names.
It made no difference.
The device is ZTE MF190(HSUPA). Please tell me how to install the device software or connect to internet without installing the software.
How can I fix this ?
Best Answer
First you need to connect to internet some how beause some packages need to be installed. I had similar issue with my tatadocomo3g dongle. So I connected to internet using win7 and downloaded sakis3g and ran it on ubuntu(I have dual boot OS with win7 and Ubuntu 13.10).
You can get Sakis3g from here. Extract it and open a terminal and run sakis3g.
Then follow only steps explained in here to connect to internet. Now you are connected to internet.
Then if you want to install photon dashboard then follow these steps (remove Photon3G folder in /opt if you have already installed it once and if not working.)
sudo stop network-manager
in terminal)libqt3-mt_3.3.8-b-0ubuntu3_i386.deb
using softwarecenter and install it, also installlibaudio2_1.9.1-1_i386.deb
.libwvstreams4.4-base_4.4.1-0.2ubuntu2_i386.deb
then after thatlibwvstreams4.4-extras_4.4.1-0.2ubuntu2_i386.deb
thenlibuniconf4.4_4.4.1-0.2ubuntu2_i386.deb
,libxplc0.3.13_0.3.13-1build1_i386.deb
andlibmng1_1.0.9-1_i386.deb
one by one using softwarecenter. (If it shows already latest version installed then no problem otherwise install.)Open terminal type
cd Desktop/
cd PCL_TATADOCIND/
sudo sh install.sh
Now it will install properly and Photon3G software will start working.