Huawei k5160 4g usb mobile broadband

stephenw10

PPPoE does nothing here. PPP won't do anything until you see USB com ports available.

You might need a custom message to mode switch it. There several threads on the usb_modeswitch forum for that device but, as I said, there may well be several versions of it.

GiaNN

@stephenw10 I did it!
i forced config 0 then usb switched and now i see an eu0 interface.
But if i want to create a PPP it still shows only /dev/cuau0

ue0: flags=8802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
        options=80000<LINKSTATE>
        ether 0c:5b:8f:27:9a:64
        media: Ethernet autoselect
        nd6 options=21<PERFORMNUD,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>

stephenw10

Aha!
Right because using USB Ethernet doesn't require ppp. You should see the ue0 interface as available to assign.
Assign it as a new interface, set it to DHCP and see what happens.

GiaNN

@stephenw10 yes i see it in the interfaces section, but how do i put the APN?

stephenw10

It may be auto-configured. It may have an management interface that can be used.

GiaNN

@stephenw10 it cannot be autoconfigured because it's a Vodafone USB and i'm using it with another ISP SIM card, if i set it to DHCP and go to it's IP it goes to PFsense.
EDIT ok it was an error, now it works fine Thank You.

Now if i can set up from the USB webpage i should set up a script wich force config 0 then usbswitch it.

Something doesn't work, the webpage is just a static page. Is there a way to use it as a modem in this doc? So i can put manually from PFsense the APN

stephenw10

It will use config index 0 by default. That's what it was using before you set it to 1.

You can run that usb_modeswitch command using the shellcmd tool/package:
https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/development/boot-commands.html

GiaNN

@stephenw10 mmmmh every time i replugged it in it didn't show up as an interface and if i did usb_modeswitch -W -v 12d1 -p 1f1e -J it gave the error that it was already in the alternate mode.
However if needed for somebody else, i couldn't set up the APN through web interface, i needed to set it up on a Windows machine and the plug it in PFsense

stephenw10

If you check the usbconfig output does it actually show as that PID?

GiaNN

@stephenw10 nope

usbconfig
ugen0.1: <AMD XHCI root HUB> at usbus0, cfg=0 md=HOST spd=SUPER (5.0Gbps) pwr=SAVE (0mA)
ugen4.1: <AMD EHCI root HUB> at usbus4, cfg=0 md=HOST spd=HIGH (480Mbps) pwr=SAVE (0mA)
ugen3.1: <AMD OHCI root HUB> at usbus3, cfg=0 md=HOST spd=FULL (12Mbps) pwr=SAVE (0mA)
ugen2.1: <AMD EHCI root HUB> at usbus2, cfg=0 md=HOST spd=HIGH (480Mbps) pwr=SAVE (0mA)
ugen1.1: <AMD OHCI root HUB> at usbus1, cfg=0 md=HOST spd=FULL (12Mbps) pwr=SAVE (0mA)
ugen2.2: <Vodafone (Huawei) Vodafone (Huawei)> at usbus2, cfg=0 md=HOST spd=HIGH (480Mbps) pwr=ON (2mA)

stephenw10

You need to actually check the IDs so something like: usbconfig -d ugen0.2 dump_device_desc

GiaNN

@stephenw10

usbconfig -d ugen2.2 dump_device_desc
ugen2.2: <Vodafone (Huawei) Vodafone (Huawei)> at usbus2, cfg=0 md=HOST spd=HIGH (480Mbps) pwr=ON (2mA)

 bLength = 0x0012 
 bDescriptorType = 0x0001 
 bcdUSB = 0x0210 
 bDeviceClass = 0x0002  <Communication device>
 bDeviceSubClass = 0x0000 
 bDeviceProtocol = 0x0000 
 bMaxPacketSize0 = 0x0040 
 idVendor = 0x12d1 
 idProduct = 0x157f 
 bcdDevice = 0x0102 
 iManufacturer = 0x0001  <Vodafone (Huawei)>
 iProduct = 0x0002  <Vodafone (Huawei)>
 iSerialNumber = 0x0000  <no string>
 bNumConfigurations = 0x0001

stephenw10

Hmm definitely showing the switched PID, yet no ue0 device is created?

GiaNN

@stephenw10 yes i see the ue0 interface and if i set the USB APN on windows it works, but it's not ideal if i need to change APN have to use a Windows machine. So i was wondering if there was a way to set it up in a way that let's me change APN directly on PFsense.

ue0: flags=8802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
        options=80000<LINKSTATE>
        ether 0c:5b:8f:27:9a:64
        media: Ethernet autoselect
        nd6 options=21<PERFORMNUD,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>

stephenw10

Not in that mode I don't think there is. Unless the modem itself has a mgmt interface you can access. Windows almost certainly does it via an mbim interface and FreeBSD doesn't support that.