Huawei E220 UMTS Stick

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Hello all together,

I want to establish a Failover Connection of my PFsense-box via a UMTS-Stick. My choice was the Huawei E220 Stick which is on the "known working"-list:
http://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/Known_Working_3G-4G_Modems

Now I am fighting against this little thing since a few days and not finding anything in the www. Google just brings up very old topics within this forum.
Following this tutorial I am not getting this stick to work.
http://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/Configuring_3G_modems

However on a native Windows box this stick works perfectly fine. I updated the stick since it came with an old firmware to this version: 11.117.10.03.99
Sadly there was no change in behaviour.

The System-PPP-Log say the following:

It looks like there is no answer while starting the connection.

My configuration lools like this:
Interface-definition (only thing thats missing is provider and country - but after initial placement it just was gone and since this happens all the time this seems quiete normal?!

After configureing the interface it shows up in the ppp list:

And this is in the interfaces when I open the preferences (looks like the initial config-stuff).

Anyone got this modem to work? I am obviously missing something since the modem itself must be ok (tested with the physical box).

I am using latest PFsense (Release 2.0) on i386 based image.
Your help is greatly appriciated.

With best regards
Thomas

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Replying to the own threads sucks but I got it solved. And since I hate those threads were nobody says how here is my explanation:

As you can see in the picture above I took /dev/cuaU2 because there was no other device. Well - this is exactly the problem because the modem has to report as /dev/cuaU0.
I played around with some bios-settings regarding USB (legacy devices, etc) and also with the USB-Ports I used and somehow after a reboot I finally could see /dev/cuaU0 in the wizard. Guess what - since then it worked …