I  have been using Airtel Broadband connection to connect to Internet (OS: Kubuntu Hardy Heron ). Just to see, how my reliance mobile phone (don’t remember, but I guess  more than 2 years old) connect my laptop to internet, I tried.

It was much easier than expected, google helped in getting the phone number to dial and rest was easier done than said

Rather than buying the data cable from Reliance Infocom’s outlet, I bought it from some other shop. As far as i remember, the cost difference was more than Rs. 1000 and that meant, no support from Reliance !!!

Support from Reliance hardly matters as community is there

First step was to know the hardware device my mobile is detetected as, I already knew that it would be some /dev/tty<xyz>

tail -f /var/log/messages and plugged in my mobile… plugged in & out & in and out (loose connections in my mobile) and then saw a line
cdc_acm 5-1:1.0: ttyACM0: USB ACM device
this gave me information about my phone as mode:
/dev/ttyACM0

and then ran kppp as :

$kppp

Now to configure the connection:

Configure ->
a)
Accounts -> Add
Connection name: Reliance (identifier of the connection)
Phone number: #777
(didn’t change any of the following)
Authentication: PAP/CHAP
kept checked “store password”
Callback type: None

b)
Modems -> New
Modem name: LG_RD6130 (whatever you like)
Modem device: /dev/ttyACM0
(didn’t change any of the following)
Flow Control:  Hardware [CRTSCTS]
Line termination: CR
Connection speed: 921600

kept “Use lock file” as checked
Increased “modem time out ” to “70 sec”

Connect to: Reliance
Login ID:<phone number without any zero>
Password:<phone number without any zero>
Connect

and I was connected to internet with a pathetically low speed (that’s something expected)