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Mobile Broadband 3G dongle #6
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a tiny stage support seems to be done from the housemother |
telnet the router and:
press 'i' scroll down finding: change the line as follows: to save changes press ESC button & type: now in the gui web interface on advanced/setup you will see: with the connection settings on advanced/administration you will find: with the 3g support driver upload if any. If someone has a 3g dongle with source driver module support can try to plug it and see what happen. |
Will try thanks! 👍 FYI I have a Huawei R205/E586 3G Mifi device to try.. not a classic USB stick. |
I've looked quickly: don't know if there are full compiling sources for drivers. the best way could be finding generic drivers valid for a chipset family group to use at once activated just in case of emergency otherwise the obstacle is finding a compatible driver for arm cortex a9 for every kind of common usb stick... in the |
Enjoying browsing around terminal. 😁 I am doing some more reading on USB devices/modems on ARM, ref: 1_embeddlinux, 2_usb_modeswitch, but can't locate a recent pre-compiled arm binary for usb_modeswitch at this time, may have to setup the build environment! |
the openwrt mirrors may comes in help |
Getting closer and will resume tomorrow. Inserting the Huawei 3G USB dongle into the D7000. I see this result in
This confirms I will need To
And ran
But unfortunately there are unresolved base dependencies. Any clues on where I might find these?:
PS: The 'nut' packages also look very promising. I have a CyberPower PowerBric needing
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no probably the drivers must be recompiled against our uclibc & kernel (libc) so if there are the sources of those related packages they must be recompiled this is the package http://www.draisberghof.de/usb_modeswitch/#download it looks to match the goal |
Went for a last-resort just to confirm. I ran the opkg install with So you're right. Will need to custom compile and build a I guess it's best to do this anyway since even if we can get the 3G modem on USB operational as an On that front, I should further explore the existing bare 3G functions like usages of the nvram With this roadblock I will divert to nut project for a short while, hope to have less dependencies there 😣 |
use this issue to talk about NUT to separate the questions (better move the above post too) I can give a look to modeswitch for configuring and compiling
making it run first: the user friendly, later...
i think it's the only way otherwise it becomes a project into a project only for a failsafe emergency connection maybe finding the general broadcom developing package may help a bit (4.02L1 or something similar) |
anyone still interested to the 3g failsafe functionality ? As it takes hardware for testing and a good amount of work-load external help is needed If someone interested helping, post here: otherwise, this job will be freezed and issue closed in a while |
Now closed. Open another if needed. |
Thanks @negan07! Like others, I am a bit frustrated at the pace of firmware development from Netgear for what seems to be very capable hardware. Yet, I am pleased to find their code released under GPL and you already created a GitHub. Also very happy to follow your wiki to find I can telnet to the D7000 through 'debug' mode to explore and tinker around.
I am very interested to see if we could do more with the USB ports:
D7000 uses CPU: Broadcom BCM[9?]63138 @1GHZ (DualCore ARM Cortex A9)
CPUInfo Features : swp half thumb fastmult edsp tls
Further reading:
https://wiki.openwrt.org/doc/hardware/soc/soc.broadcom.bcm63xx
https://github.com/networkupstools/nut/
I am no expert and don't have much time, but have some systems/programming background so will try to follow your lead to share what I can.
Regards,
David
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