3g Dongle Will Not Show Up in PPP
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Hi
Firstly, I have read through every search response I could find and tried every single suggestion but cannot get this working at all.
Setup:
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Version 2.1-RC0 (i386)
built on Mon Jun 17 04:12:48 EDT 2013
FreeBSD 8.3-RELEASE-p8You are on the latest version.
Platform pfSense
CPU Type Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz=====================================
I have two modems - USB Huawei
Model 1: e122
Model 2: HiLink E303=======================================
When I plug in either, it is recognised and it says what model it is etc but does not show up in interfaces.
Yet when I list devices - I can see it is correctly listed in devices.
I am sure it has to do with the UMASS switching issue but I have tried everything and cannot get it to see it.
Out of interest, I plugged the e122 into my companies PFSENSE box, at it works immediately. No extra configuration.
Both work find on a laptop with Windows.
See screenshots./.. any help is appreciated.
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One more pic
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Can anyone even confirm that they got it working with a similar set up?
Does this info help:
usbconfig show_ifdrv
ugen0.1: <uhci root="" hub="" intel="">at usbus0, cfg=0 md=HOST spd=FULL (12Mbps) pwr=SA VE
ugen0.1.0: uhub0: <intel 1="" 9="" uhci="" root="" hub,="" class="" 0,="" rev="" 1.00="" 1.00,="" addr="">ugen1.1: <uhci root="" hub="" intel="">at usbus1, cfg=0 md=HOST spd=FULL (12Mbps) pwr=SA VE
ugen1.1.0: uhub1: <intel 1="" 9="" uhci="" root="" hub,="" class="" 0,="" rev="" 1.00="" 1.00,="" addr="">ugen2.1: <uhci root="" hub="" intel="">at usbus2, cfg=0 md=HOST spd=FULL (12Mbps) pwr=SA VE
ugen2.1.0: uhub2: <intel 1="" 9="" uhci="" root="" hub,="" class="" 0,="" rev="" 1.00="" 1.00,="" addr="">ugen3.1: <uhci root="" hub="" intel="">at usbus3, cfg=0 md=HOST spd=FULL (12Mbps) pwr=SA VE
ugen3.1.0: uhub3: <intel 1="" 9="" uhci="" root="" hub,="" class="" 0,="" rev="" 1.00="" 1.00,="" addr="">ugen4.1: <ehci root="" hub="" intel="">at usbus4, cfg=0 md=HOST spd=HIGH (480Mbps) pwr=S AVE
ugen4.1.0: uhub4: <intel 1="" 9="" ehci="" root="" hub,="" class="" 0,="" rev="" 2.00="" 1.00,="" addr="">ugen4.2: <huawei hilink="" huawei="">at usbus4, cfg=0 md=HOST spd=HIGH (480Mbps) pwr= ON
ugen4.2.0: umass0: <huawei 0="" 2="" huawei="" hilink,="" class="" 0,="" rev="" 2.00="" 1.02,="" addr="">ugen4.3: <huawei mobile="" hua="" wei="">at usbus4, cfg=0 md=HOST spd=HIGH (480Mbps) pwr =ON
ugen4.3.0: u3g0: <3G Modem>
ugen4.3.3: umass1: <usb mass="" storage="">ugen4.3.4: umass2: <usb mass="" storage="">ugen3.2: <product 0x05cf="" vendor="" 0x1bcf="">at usbus3, cfg=0 md=HOST spd=LOW (1.5Mbp s) pwr=ON
ugen3.2.0: ukbd0: <vendor 0="" 2="" 0x1bcf="" product="" 0x05cf,="" class="" 0,="" rev="" 2.00="" a0.13,="" addr ="" ="">ugen3.2.1: ums0:</vendor></product></usb></usb></huawei></huawei></huawei></intel></ehci></intel></uhci></intel></uhci></intel></uhci></intel></uhci> -
When I plug in either, it is recognised and it says what model it is etc but does not show up in interfaces.
Can you give more detail on what you mean by "does not show up in interfaces"?
Your usbconfig output shows the modem is recognised as a 3G modem (device u3g0 reported) and your device listing shows a /dev/cuaU0.0 device so I would expect you would need to go to Interfaces -> (assign), click on the PPPs tab, then click on the "+" button to add /dev/cuaU0.0 (or cuaU0.1 or cuaU0.2, whichever is the data port) to the pool of interfaces available for PPP use, similar to what needs to be done after adding a new NIC to the box.
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Hi
Exactly.. thats what I expected.. however, if you look at the second reply.. I added a photo of exactly your steps and it shows no interfaces in the list
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This should be on the 2.1 Snapshots forum. I've been seeing this issue on my box also since the past few weeks. I have 2 Huawei sticks and neither shows any PPP interfaces anymore.
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oh,thats interesting.. thanks.. so I am wasting my time…
I guess I'll downgrade to stable and test again..
thanks for letting me know
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I suspect this might have been caused by the fix for the problem reported in at least a couple of topics including http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,49094.0.html and http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,56367.0.html
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Just for the record, I have a Huawei E1550 HSDPA USB Stick. I haven't used it in production anywhere, but I'm sure I used it on an Alix 2D13 and 2.1-DEVELOPMENT system and it just worked - that was at least 6 months ago when I was doing some testing, training and playing. I tried again about 2 weeks ago and it didn't show up in the GUI - just like reported in this thread. I didn't have time to play.
It would be great if these dongles worked - I have some sites that have primary ADSL on the phone line and could choose to failover to a 3G dongle if the ADSL is dead for an extended period.
I am not in a position to do any hardware testing/debugging until next week - not near my test Alix right now. -
That means that the device is not responding to AT OK commands.
Before there were some ioctl configuration done on those which was removed now.
I have to check on how best to solve this which was not identified until now.For now you can just apply this patch
diff --git a/usr/local/www/interfaces_ppps_edit.php b/usr/local/www/interfaces_ppps_edit.php index d953111..abbafa5 100644 --- a/usr/local/www/interfaces_ppps_edit.php +++ b/usr/local/www/interfaces_ppps_edit.php @@ -434,7 +434,8 @@ $types = array("select" => gettext("Select"), "ppp" => "PPP", "pppoe" => "PPPoE" $selected_ports = explode(',',$pconfig['interfaces']); if (!is_dir("/var/spool/lock")) mwexec("/bin/mkdir -p /var/spool/lock"); - $serialports = pfSense_get_modem_devices(); + //$serialports = pfSense_get_modem_devices(); + $serialports = glob("/dev/cua*"); $serport_count = 0; foreach ($serialports as $port) { $serport_count++; -
I applied this patch through System > patches.
I still cant see my 3G Dongle showing up on ppp interface.
Am I Missing something.?…
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Well, this is what i did
I fresh installed 2.03.. then upgraded to the 2.1 RC0
It sees my modems nowBUt fails to connect..
Jun 20 10:51:11 ppp: [opt2_link0] Link: reconnection attempt 185 in 4 seconds Jun 20 10:51:11 ppp: [opt2_link0] LCP: Down event Jun 20 10:51:11 ppp: [opt2_link0] Link: DOWN event Jun 20 10:51:11 ppp: [opt2_link0] MODEM: chat script failed Jun 20 10:51:11 ppp: [opt2_link0] CHAT: The modem responded with "ERROR" to the command "AT&F&C1&D2E0S0=0M1" at ModemCmd: label. Jun 20 10:51:11 ppp: [opt2_link0] CHAT: Detected Hayes compatible modem. Jun 20 10:51:11 ppp: [opt2_link0] CHAT: +CGDCONT=1,"IP","3ireland.ie" Jun 20 10:51:10 ppp: [opt2_link0] Link: reconnection attempt 184 -
I guess this means something:
3GTHREE interface (ppp1) Status up PPP Uptime 00:00:0 Cell Signal (RSSI) rssi:18 level:-77dBm percent:58% Cell Mode None, No Service Mode Cell SIM State Invalid SIM/locked State Cell Service No Service MAC address 00:00:00:00:00:00 IPv6 Link Local fe80::212:3fff:feac:3650 In/out packets 0/0 (0 bytes/0 bytes) In/out packets (pass) 0/0 (0 bytes/0 bytes) In/out packets (block) 0/73 (0 bytes/5 KB) In/out errors 0/0 Collisions 0But the sim is not locked and on my laptop, there is full coverage..
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Please try with tomorrows snapshots.
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Sounds Good
Thanks -
Latest Snapshot didn't fix things sadly…
Here is my log :
Jun 26 08:24:57 ppp: [opt2_link0] Link: reconnection attempt 1 Jun 26 08:24:54 ppp: [opt2_link0] Link: reconnection attempt 1 in 2 seconds Jun 26 08:24:54 ppp: [opt2_link0] LCP: Down event Jun 26 08:24:54 ppp: [opt2_link0] Link: DOWN event Jun 26 08:24:54 ppp: [opt2_link0] MODEM: chat script failed Jun 26 08:24:54 ppp: [opt2_link0] CHAT: The modem responded with "ERROR" to the command "AT&F&C1&D2E0S0=0M1" at ModemCmd: label. Jun 26 08:24:54 ppp: [opt2_link0] CHAT: Detected Hayes compatible modem. Jun 26 08:24:54 ppp: [opt2_link0] CHAT: +CGDCONT=1,"IP","3ireland.ie" Jun 26 08:24:54 ppp: [opt2_link0] LCP: LayerStart Jun 26 08:24:54 ppp: [opt2_link0] LCP: state change Initial --> Starting Jun 26 08:24:54 ppp: [opt2_link0] LCP: Open event Jun 26 08:24:54 ppp: [opt2_link0] Link: OPEN event Jun 26 08:24:54 ppp: [opt2] Bundle: Interface ng1 created Jun 26 08:24:54 ppp: web: web is not running Jun 26 08:24:54 ppp: process 13685 started, version 5.6 (root@snapshots-8_3-amd64.builders.pfsense.org 10:40 21-Jun-2013) Jun 26 08:24:54 ppp:I updated the firmware
I deleted the connection under interfaces and the ppp connection.
I set them up fresh -
Oh you need probably a different thread for you.
You have a different issue than the modem show up on your list.Please create another thread.