configuring Belkin f7d1101 wifi dongle on Ubuntu 11.10

I wanted a wifi dongle to get connected to my home network. I bought Belkin f7d1101 with lot of apprehension on how to get it configured. I just thought I would be able figure my way around with the help of the community. But all that thinking was unnecessary.

I got the dongle today, I plugged it in and nothing seemed to be happening. But then I went into the networking and see the list of wifi networks. I clicked mine and it asked for password. I entered the password and I got connected. Breeze. AMAZING.............. no setup needed!!!

I can even create a wifi hotspot by putting a name & password. I remember spending at least a couple of hours searching and trying different things to create a wifi hotspot in Windows. Thanks Ubundu.

Relience Neconnect+ USB Modem not working

I connected the USB Modem from Relience (made by Huawei technologies). In windows, it used it get installed automatically, but since that did not happened, I was expecting a loong search/setting-up ahead! Thankfully, it turned to be even easier than windows.. http://veerasundar.com/blog/2010/06/how-to-make-reliance-netconnect-broadband-to-work-on-ubuntu-10-04/ The method-1 itself worked for me..

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1. Ubuntu 10.04 should detect your device now. Now go to System -> Preferences -> Network connections and select the Mobile Broadband tab. select Huawei technologies.

2. From the above step, just follow whatever the wizard says (don’t worry! the wizard won’t ask you to jump from the building). Select India in Providers Country page and select Reliance in Provider page respectively.

3. In the last window, give a name to the connection (Reliance for example) and then enter your USB device number which is nothing but the mobile number in the user name and password fields (yes, both are same). In the Number field, type #777 if it is not already there.

SD Card not reading.. what to do..

I have a built in SD card reader but is not working.. It turned out to be a breeze to get it going.. Follow the link below.. http://goinggnu.wordpress.com/2009/11/12/read-your-sd-card-with-your-ubuntu-laptop/

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First, we’ll go into the command line (Applications-> Accessories-> Terminal) and make a backup copy of the file we’re going to modify, which is the modules file in the /etc directory.
sudo cp /etc/modules /etc/modules.bak

Now we’re going to edit the file and add one line.
gksu gedit /etc/modules

Tag this on to the end of the file in a new line:
tifm_sd

Start Notes

I have been wishing to try out Ubuntu for a while now.. Couple of weeks back it became a reality. Till now, I have enjoyed it and wish to continue the relation. But there are soo much new learnings! so, I thought of documenting for me and for any others who are in my phase.. here we gooooo.........