[leaf-user] Interest in support for 3G / 4G wireless Internet connectivity?
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/ 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/
Re: [leaf-user] Interest in support for 3G / 4G wireless Internet connectivity?
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 -- 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/
Re: [leaf-user] Interest in support for 3G / 4G wireless Internet connectivity?
On 06/16/2013 02:49 AM, david M brooke wrote: 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? David, That sounds like a good idea, and should be possible. Huawei Mobile Broadband http://www.huaweidevice.co.in/Products/MobileBroadband/index.php https://www.google.com/search?q=raspberry+pi+huawei 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/ -- Mike Noyes http://sourceforge.net/users/mhnoyes https://plus.google.com/u/0/113364780158082152468 -- 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/
Re: [leaf-user] Interest in support for 3G / 4G wireless Internet connectivity?
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/
Re: [leaf-user] Interest in support for 3G / 4G wireless Internet connectivity?
Hi. 16.06.2013 22:03, david M brooke пишет: 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 usb_modeswitch is required to switch device from 'CD-ROM' mode (when device is seen as USB CD-ROM with Windows drivers) to 'modem' mode (when device is represented as multiple TTYs/ethernet device). So it should be called before connection will be setted up. Look for other embedded projects. For ex., in wive-ng there is a script that is called from mdev by line: 1-.*:1.* 0:0 @/etc/scripts/usbctrl.sh and script is here: https://gitorious.org/wive-rtnl-ralink-rt305x-routers-firmware/wive-rtnl-ralink-rt305x-routers-firmware/blobs/master/user/usb/usbctrl.sh -- 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/
