Hi; Am 16.06.2013 21:03, schrieb david M brooke: > 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 ;-)
Duh, 4.x is outdated now :) After working more than a year on 5.x going back to 4.x is a little bit painful, and will require some more work to adjust it to 5.x later. Anway, since you went in advance with preparing the docs, I switched back to 4.x and started to work on usbmodeswitch tonight. Currently I managed to compile it, so hopefully I'll be able to prepare a first package over the weekend. I hesitate to prepare a new release for 4.x only for usb-modeswitch, and updating the packages page on our webpage doesn't work any longer easily due to the changes on SF lately. Therefor I prefer that you rewrite the docs for 5.x - would that be possible? kp ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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/
