On Sun, Feb 5, 2012 at 21:16, Mehma Sarja <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 2/5/12 1:06 AM, Odhiambo Washington wrote: > > > I am thinking of going over to Safaricom to tide us over. >>> >>> >> Huawei E1820 (I have tested this and worked with PC-BSD). It's a bit >> more costly though, costing like KES 9,999 >> Huawei E160 costs KES 2,000 and I have a feeling it will work. I'll try >> it today at some point and let you know. It can save you some few thousands >> KES. >> >> So, take this matter closer to the solution for the benefit of Mehma > Sarja & others.. > > Thanks! Washington for making time and putting in the effort. > > I have taken time to run tests to find a solution for Mehma's problem. I > had a choice between the very expensive Huawei E1820 (5.76Mbps/21Mbps) and > the relatively cheaper Huawei E160 (2Mbps/3.6Mbps). The reason for running > a test against the E160 was two-fold: To see if it actually works, and as > such make Mehma save a few thousands when he finally decides which modem to > go for, seeing as E1820 costs approximately US$ 111 while the E160 costs > US$ 22:-) > > One of our team members has an E160 modem with Safaricom. We have not, > but will try it out soon. > > > In both cases I was able to successfully use the same settings with > pfSense 2.0.1 (amd64). Here is the output of `ifconfig` when the modem was > connected (and I scp-ed this output to another Unix box using the same > connection): > > http://62.8.64.102/~wash/ifconfig.txt > > The procedure involved running HyperTerminal (this I did on my Windows 8 > PC) and disabling the virtual CD-ROM on both devices. > The AT command string is AT^U2DIAG=0 (to disable, and =10 to re-enable) > > I discovered that pfSense (I was running on the LiveCD mode) already had > umodem and u3g modules loaded. > Sorry, I did not check if they were compiled into the kernel or loaded as > modules. > > And here is my ppp.conf - the exact one I used with the > Safaricom-branded Huawei modem(s). > > u3g: > set device /dev/cuaU0.0 > > Going through the GUI on PfSense, we see interfaces /dev/cuaU0.0 and > /dev/cuaU0.2 with the EC122 modem, and I am guessing that depends upon > which usb port the thing is plugged into. > No. The device nodes I believe are created "in some order" independent of the USB port you plug a device into. > > > set server /var/run/3g-internet "" 0177 > set speed 921600 > set timeout 0 > set authname saf > set authkey data > set dial "ABORT BUSY TIMEOUT 2 \ > \"\" \ > AT OK-AT-OK \ > AT+CFUN=1 OK-AT-OK \ > AT+CMEE=2 OK-AT-OK \ > AT+CSQ OK \ > AT+CGDCONT=1,\\\"IP\\\",\\\"safaricom\\\" OK \ > ATD*99# CONNECT" > > We put in #777 > You also needed to change $authname, $authkey and the APN name, I believe. > > set crtscts on > disable vjcomp > disable acfcomp > disable deflate > disable deflate24 > disable pred1 > disable protocomp > disable mppe > disable ipv6cp > disable lqr > disable echo > #nat enable yes > enable dns > resolv writable > set dns 8.8.8.8 > set ifaddr 10.1.0.2/0 10.1.0.1/0 255.255.255.255 0.0.0.0 > add default HISADDR # See ppp.link* > > > This was my first time ever using pfSense in a dialup mode, so I wrote > my ppp.conf by hand. Of course I did find where this is apparently done > using the webUI (under Interface Assignments) but clicking the option for > editing ppp.conf and saving it did not seem to modify my ppp.conf. Is this > perhaps because I was running LiveCD? > > Is pfSense editor able to generate a complete ppp.conf like the one > above and write it? That's the only question I had left on my mind. > > I believe this will help Mehma in his endeavors. > > One of the servers we have there is an Ubuntu box and the EC122 specs say > that it supports Linux kernel 2.6x and above. There is also a howto for > that particular model here: > http://citycellmodemtroubleshoot.blogspot.com/2011/03/installation-of-ec122-modem-in-ubuntu.html > > I am a *BSD guy, so will reserve my energies when it comes to Linux as I consider myself incompetent (unwilling to be competent, that is). Wish you all the best! -- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254733744121/+254722743223 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ I can't hear you -- I'm using the scrambler. Please consider the environment before printing this email.
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