Using "MTNL 3G Jadoo" data card on Ubuntu

Question

I am trying to use "MTNL 3G Jadoo" data card (Teracom LW272) with Ubuntu 12.04. On connecting, it gets mounted as a drive containing the client installation .deb file. I opened the .deb file in Ubuntu Software Center and installed it. I searched for "MTNL" in Ubuntu search and found "MTNL 3G Modem" application. But it won't run. I found it is installed in /opt/MTNL-3GModem. I tried running it unsuccessfully from the terminal with

sudo /opt/MTNL-3GModem/ModemClient

Any idea how to get it working?

Answer 1

Here's how i got it working on 12.04:

I checked for any missing dependencies with ldd /opt/MTNL-3GModem/ModemClient and found libudev0:i386 to be missing. So the application is 32-bit and i have 64-bit Ubuntu. I also found that libudev0:i386 is no longer included with Ubuntu 13.04. I tried installing it with apt-get but got some errors. I finally downloaded it from here and installed it with Ubuntu Software Center. Then i started the MTNL application with sudo /opt/MTNL-3GModem/ModemClient and... success! Note that the application needs to be run with sudo.

UPDATE for 14.04:
On upgrading to 14.04, the MTNL application failed to connect (on clicking the 'Connect' button). I found that it was using the gksudo command in its shell scripts, which is not available since 13.04. So I replaced gksudo with sudo in two files in /opt/MTNL-3GModem: connectnet.sh and deconnectnet.sh. And that fixed the issue.