I was really excited to learn that as of late OpenBSD has support for Sierra
Novatell Wireless cards. The lack of support held me back from using OpenBSD on
my laptop because I need the wireless access.
So I bought the Novatel Wireless U720 which is listed as Devices suspected of
being compatible in the umsm manial page. I followed the umsm and ppp man pages
and can establish a ppp connection doing the following (conf files and dmesg
outputs follow).
#ppp -ddial default
This establishes a tun0 interface and I am able to ping out and resolve dns.
Something like ping openbsd.org works ok, so does dig openbsd.org, and so does
ftp ftp://ftp.openbsd.org
But when I try to open http://openbsd.org in lynx, try to telnet openbsd.org 80
and GET /index.html HTTP/1.0, whois openbsd.org, or I try to pkg_add something,
it doesn't work. Nothing happens. The request is sent but no response is
displayed. So I really can't figure out what the issue is. I'm not running PF
and I have activated the card on Windows. I tried all this as root to be sure
it's not a permission issue. Please take a look at my configuration and log
files and let me know what I can do?
PS I'm really excited that all the ACPI stuff on my laptop now works with 4.3
Current like the brightness buttons and halt -p. If I can get this stuff
resolved with the wireless card, OpenBSD will be the OS of choice on not only my
desktop and servers, but laptop as well. Thanks OpenBSD!
/etc/ppp/ppp.conf:
default:
set device /dev/cuaU0
set speed 230400
set dial ABORT BUSY ABORT NO\\sCARRIER TIMEOUT 5 \\ AT OK-AT-OK ATE1Q0 OK
\\dATDT\\T TIMEOUT 40 CONNECT
set phone #777
set login
set authname [EMAIL PROTECTED]
set authkey vzw
set timeout 120
set ifaddr 10.0.0.1/0 10.0.0.2/0 255.255.255.0 0.0.0.0
add default HISADDR
enable dns
iconfig:
lo0: flags=8049UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST mtu 33208
groups: lo
inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff00
inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128
inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x4
enc0: flags=0 mtu 1536
tun0: flags=8051UP,POINTOPOINT,RUNNING,MULTICAST mtu 1500
groups: tun egress
inet 75.192.185.229 -- 66.174.20.4 netmask 0xff00
/var/log/ppp.log
Mar 10 10:11:26 laptop ppp[17724]: Phase: Using interface: tun0
Mar 10 10:11:26 laptop ppp[17724]: Phase: deflink: Created in closed state
Mar 10 10:11:26 laptop ppp[5169]: Phase: PPP Started (ddial mode).
Mar 10 10:11:26 laptop ppp[5169]: Phase: bundle: Establish
Mar 10 10:11:26 laptop ppp[5169]: Phase: deflink: closed - opening
Mar 10 10:11:27 laptop ppp[5169]: Phase: deflink: Connected!
Mar 10 10:11:27 laptop ppp[5169]: Phase: deflink: opening - dial
Mar 10 10:11:29 laptop ppp[5169]: Phase: deflink: dial - carrier
Mar 10 10:11:30 laptop ppp[5169]: Phase: deflink: /dev/cuaU0 doesn't support CD
Mar 10 10:11:30 laptop ppp[5169]: Phase: deflink: carrier - login
Mar 10 10:11:30 laptop ppp[5169]: Phase: deflink: login - lcp
Mar 10 10:11:31 laptop ppp[5169]: Phase: deflink: lcp - open
Mar 10 10:11:31 laptop ppp[5169]: Phase: bundle: Network
Mar 10 10:11:31 laptop ppp[5169]: Phase: deflink: IPV6CP protocol reject closes
IPV6CP !
Mar 10 10:11:31 laptop ppp[5169]: Phase: deflink: IPV6CP protocol reject closes
IPV6CP !
Mar 10 10:11:31 laptop ppp[5169]: Warning: 0.0.0.0/0: Change route failed:
errno: No such process
Mar 10 10:11:31 laptop ppp[5169]: Warning: ff01:5::/32: Change route failed:
errno: Network is unreachable
Mar 10 10:11:31 laptop ppp[5169]: Warning: ff02:5::/32: Change route failed:
errno: Network is unreachable
Mar 10 10:11:34 laptop ppp[5169]: Phase: deflink: IPV6CP protocol reject closes
IPV6CP !
Mar 10 10:11:43 laptop last message repeated 3 times
Mar 10 10:12:31 laptop ppp[5169]: Phase: deflink: HDLC errors - FCS: 5, ADDR:
0, COMD: 0, PROTO: 0
Mar 10 10:13:32 laptop ppp[5169]: Phase: deflink: HDLC errors - FCS: 3, ADDR:
0, COMD: 0, PROTO: 0
dmesg:
OpenBSD 4.3 (GENERIC) #695: Tue Mar 4 14:28:56 MST 2008
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC
cpu0: Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.60GHz (GenuineIntel 686-class) 1.60
GHz
cpu0:
FPU,V86,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,CFLUSH,DS,ACPI,MMX
,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,TM,SBF,EST,TM2
real mem = 501706752 (478MB)
avail mem = 477003776 (454MB)
mainbus0 at root
bios0 at mainbus0: AT/286+ BIOS, date 10/08/04, BIOS32 rev. 0 @ 0xfd6d0, SMBIOS
rev. 2.31 @ 0xdf010 (39 entries)
bios0: vendor Phoenix version W320.F05 date 10/08/2004
bios0: Gateway 3522GZ
acpi0 at bios0: rev 0
acpi0: tables DSDT FACP BOOT APIC SSDT SSDT
acpi0: wakeup devices LID0(S3) SLPB(S3) PWRB(S4) LANC(S4) MODM(S4)
acpitimer0 at acpi0: 3579545 Hz, 24 bits
acpiprt0 at acpi0: bus 0 (PCI0)
acpiprt1 at acpi0: bus -1 (AGPB)
acpiprt2 at acpi0: bus 2 (PCIB)
acpiec0 at acpi0
acpicpu0 at acpi0: C3, C2, C1, FVS, 1600, 600 MHz
acpitz0 at acpi0: critical temperature 100 degC
acpiac0 at acpi0: AC unit online
acpibat0 at acpi0: BAT0 serial W32044Ltype Li oem
