Huawei E393

moacir

Hi,

Sorry for posting this question again, but I read some threads about it and I still can’t get my Huawei E392 4G modem to work with pfSense.

It should be already in the standard FreeBSD code as we see here: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/svn-src-head/2012-July/038965.html.

Does anyone have succeeded getting the E392 working? If so, can you share a how to do it for dummies?

Thanks,

Moacir

wallabybob

@moacir:

I still can’t get my Huawei E392 4G modem to work with pfSense.

Which build of pfSense? The newest hardware support is in the snapshot builds of pfSense 2.1 but the FreeBSD (8.3) in those builds was released almost 2 years ago so

@moacir:

It should be already in the standard FreeBSD code as we see here: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/svn-src-head/2012-July/038965.html.

might not be relevant.

@moacir:

Does anyone have succeeded getting the E392 working? If so, can you share a how to do it for dummies?

Have you searched the pfSense forums for E392 to see if any pfSense user has reported experience with this device?

Your title says E393 but the body of your posting says E392. Which?

stephenw10

The pfSense 2.1 u3g is patched from the 8.3 release version, though I can only see one patch currently and it's not relevant here:
https://github.com/pfsense/pfsense-tools/blob/master/patches/RELENG_8_3/sierra-mc8705-u3g.diff

Steve

moacir

Thanks Steve.

If you take a look on the patch link I sent above you will see:
Author: rea (ports committer)
Date: Mon Jul 23 14:22:45 2012
New Revision: 238717
URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/238717

So this patch is probably in a much more recent FreeBSD build than pfsense is currently using. As a newbie, it will take a while till I learn how to compile properly and replace the kernel. But all the other solutions looks a kind of, as you said, reinventing the wheel.

moacir

wallabybob,

Sorry for the confusion… The 4G modem is a Huawei E392.
As I just started playing with pfSense, I am using the most recent version I could find at the site.
And yes, there is a thread about it (http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,49549.0.html)where a fellow got it working installing usb_modeswitch.

Moacir