Let me tell you some stuff about myself I am a self confessed geek and I often carry multiple internet connections in my home gettng a new one when I see a attractive offer just to try it out and which I find difficult to get rid of. A time came last year when I had three internet connections one of them a hathway broadband based on and  ethernet connection, A 2.5G airtel GPRS connection and a 3G BSNL EVDO connection. I decided it was time to act and get rid of all the internet I was paying for but not using. In a instant I called the company and disconnected my hathway connection. Now when 8.10 released it came with great promises of 3G support etc. and I was hopefull(since everything else had worked so smooth in my installation) that I would be able to set up using my 2.5G GPRS or my 3G CDMA connection with ubuntu 8.10. Those hopes were dashed as I spent months trying to figure out a way to confgure my EVDO card to be detected and dialled on(using wvdial)  but to no avail. Giving up on that I tried to configure my ubuntu to atleast be able to use the connection sharing from my HTC Touch PDA smart phone running the airtel GPRS connection. This should have been simple to do but to my horror it still didn't work. After a month more I gave up and installed a windoz on my system to use my internet. as a result for 6 months I could not use internet on my ubuntu laptop(except in office where they provided internet on ethernet connections)

Yesterday saw the official release of Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty jackalope and like a dedicated user I went ahead and upgraded immidiately over the internet in my office.my evdo card was plugged in like always and its my great pleasure to tell you how smooth working with EVDO on 9.04 is. The card was detected immidiately and showed up when I clicked on the network symbol on top right on taskbar as "Auto Mobile Broadband(CDMA) connection". To configure it all I needed to do was this

• right click on the same network symbol,
• select edit connections,
• select mobile broadband tab.
• select  "Auto Mobile Broadband(CDMA) connection" and click edit,
• enter your username and password and save :)( you might notice that the number to be dialled is already set (#777)
• now any time you boot up and ur card is in just left click on the network icon and select "Auto Mobile Broadband(CDMA) connection"
• the system dials in to the service and viola u r connected!!

Not only this using the internet sharing from windows mobile 6.0 works really well too. I just connected my HTC Touch smartphone over data cable to my lappy and enabled internet sharing on the phone. Jaunty detected a new connection and assigned it eth1 !!

I am really impressed with the truly awesome  job that the ubuntu team has done with Jaunty. Jaunty finally gives me complete ability to do everything I ever did on windoz and more effectively on a platform I like. My Congratulation goes out to the people on canonical for finally nailing it to perfection with this release and my personal thanks for answering my final complaint with mobile internet support.

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