Fedora Core 14 : Installing TATA DoCoMo 3G USB stick / Dailer.

This is fairly straight forward.

1. Connect the 3G USB stick. At this point you might notice that an option in ‘Connections ’ (top right corner) icon under name of ‘Mobile Broadband’ is available. You can start the wizard through it which will guide you thought setting up the internet in 3-4 easy step, you will just have to select your Operator, select your plan and you will be connected. But we are going to install the software. Since there we can see all the options, get exact upload/download details and set more security through adding a PIN.
2. As the stick is connected, a ‘Virtual SCSI cdrom’ drive will be automatically mounted. Open it. If it’s not showing on desktop goto “ Places > *name of the drive* “.
3. Now you should be able to see three folders, folder by name ‘Linux’ is of our interest. Open it.
4. Copy the *.tar.gz, file to local folder, e.g. in ‘Documents’. 
5. Now open terminal by going to ” Applications > System Tools > Terminal “. 
6. Now using cd command change to folder where you have saved the file.
7. Issue  a command tar -xvzf <filename>.tar.gz . This will extract the file into a folder with name identical to .tar.gz filename. Now change directory to this new folder which we just extracted. *replace <filename> by name of file.
8. Change to root using su command.
9. Before installing we will need to install/update a package ‘qt3’, since ‘libqt-mt.so’ is required for program to work . This package is necessary for install to complete properly. To install/update it issue a command at terminal  ” yum install libqt-mt* “
10. Once installed, now we can start main installation by issuing command ” sh install.sh “.
11. This should start installation. Wait for it to finish. After it’s finished you can find the TATA DoCoMo 3G under ’ Applications->Internet->TATA DOCOMO 3G ‘.
12. Start and connect :)

Note :

1. An error ” cp: cannot stat `onda.ko’: No such file or directory ” might be displayed during the setup process. I researched about it on net but didn’t find any concrete information to resolve it. Also, it didn’t affect my connection or installation. So no need to panic.
2. If you don’t install qt3 package, at the end of setup you will be shown error “ error while loading shared libraries: libqt-mt.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory “
3. This might work for other Linux distros like Ubuntu, OpenSUSE and also networks like MTNL, BSNL etc. as well, if you are getting the above error. I haven’t tested them.