On Sun, 2013-06-16 at 15:52 +0200, KP Kirchdoerfer wrote: > Hi David; > > Am 16.06.2013 11:49, schrieb david M brooke: > > Hi, > > > > I am just wondering how much interest there would be in support for 3G > > (or 4G, where available) wireless Internet network connectivity for > > Bering-uClibc. Does anybody have this working already? > > > > I recently purchased a Huawei E3131 USB "dongle" and this works well on > > other Linux distributions (e.g. Fedora) so it should be possible to make > > it work on Bering-uClibc. > > > > That particular Huawei model presents itself as a USB Ethernet device > > (rather than a USB Modem) which uses the cdc_ether driver. It has > > provision for connecting an external antenna and mine cost 20 Euros. > > > > Typical use cases might be: > > - An alternative for high-speed, wired Internet in case that fails > > - Automatic fail-over? > > - Mobile or temporary installations where there is no option for > > wired Internet connectivity > > > > I think the main Package we are missing in order to support this is > > http://www.draisberghof.de/usb_modeswitch/ > > Sounds interesting. Another use case clould be to use a raspberry pi as > a router between the 3/4G internet connection and your local lan, in > case one has no wired connection (e.g. while on a building site :)). > > I looked into the tarfile and it seems only require libusb (a version > without tcl support is mentioned in the README). > > Do you have asked because you haven't time to start working on it? No > promises, but I may a look at it at the next rainy weekend, but shurely > testing will be up to you then. > > kp
Hi kp, Mainly I asked to test the level of interest in the wider user community. As you have spotted, I have a relevant use case (on a building site with a nearby 3G mast) so I will look at this at some point, but if there is a lot of interest I can do that sooner. I will certainly take of Documentation and Testing. If someone with an up-to-date BuC 4.x development environment were to prepare a usb_modeswitch Package that would help accelerate progress ;-) >From the docs I think our current libusb should be OK. On Fedora there are udev rules which call usb_modeswitch but I think maybe that is too much complexity / automation for us. Perhaps a "pre-up" entry for in /etc/network/interfaces could be used to run usb_modeswitch? dMb ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Windows: Build for Windows Store. http://p.sf.net/sfu/windows-dev2dev ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: leaf-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user Support Request -- http://leaf-project.org/
