Hello everybody!

I have a ASUS WL-500G Premium router and I recently installed Kamikaze 7.09 on it. I have the following packages installed:

base-files-brcm47xx-2.6 10-9078 
bridge 1.0.6-1 
busybox 1.4.2-2 
deco 39-1 
dnsmasq 2.39-1 
dropbear 0.50-2 
fdisk 2.12r-2 
haserl 0.8.0-2 
hotplug2 0.9+r102-2 
iptables 1.3.7-1 
kernel 2.6.22-brcm47xx-1 
kmod-diag 2+2.6.22-brcm47xx-1 
kmod-fs-vfat 2.6.22-brcm47xx-1 
kmod-madwifi 2.6.22+r2568-20070710-brcm47xx-2 
kmod-nls-base 2.6.22-brcm47xx-1 
kmod-ppp 2.6.22-brcm47xx-1 
kmod-pppoe 2.6.22-brcm47xx-1 
kmod-scsi-core 2.6.22-brcm47xx-1 
kmod-switch 2.6.22-brcm47xx-1 
kmod-usb-acm 2.6.22-brcm47xx-1 
kmod-usb-core 2.6.22-brcm47xx-1 
kmod-usb-ohci 2.6.22-brcm47xx-1 
kmod-usb-serial 2.6.22-brcm47xx-1 
kmod-usb-serial-airprime 2.6.22-brcm47xx-1 
kmod-usb-storage 2.6.22-brcm47xx-1 
kmod-usb2 2.6.22-brcm47xx-1 
libgcc 4.1.2-10 
libncurses 5.6-1 
libusb 0.1.12-1 
mtd 5 
ppp 2.4.3-8 
ppp-mod-pppoe 2.4.3-8 
uclibc 0.9.28-10 
udevtrigger 106-1 
usbutils 0.72-1 
webif 0.3-8 
wireless-tools 29-1 

I'm trying to install a ZAPP 010 CDMA modem and connect to the internet using EVDO. The problem is that I don't see the modem with lsusb. On the other hand, if I put a USB memory stick I see it immediately.

Could you please help me with this matter?

Thank you!

CDMA or GSM modems should behave somewhat similar. You can find useful links if you google for openwrt and UMTS.
Please tell us what dmesg reports.

One useful link is
http://josefsson.org/grisslan/internet.html

It mentions the following which may have some connection to your issue

--Snip

With Kamikaze 7.06, you may get an error in the kernel log since the Huawei USB ID is not recognized. Note that this has been fixed in both 7.07 and 7.09.

usb.c: USB device 2 (vend/prod 0x12d1/0x1001) is not claimed by any active driver.To fix this in 7.06 (although I suggest upgrading to 7.07 or 7.09 instead), you'll need to load the “usbserial† kernel module with the “vendor=0x12d1 product=0x1001† parameters. To make this be loaded automatically every time the box starts, modify “/etc/modules.d/60-usb-serial† into:

usbserial vendor=0x12d1 product=0x1001 # Huawei E600

---End snip

I've tried that solution and I still didn't see the CDMA modem.

Here is my dmesg:

root@OpenWrt:~# dmesg
Linux version 2.6.22 (nbd@ds10) (gcc version 4.1.2) #2 Sun Sep 30 20:38:47 CEST 2007
CPU revision is: 00029006
ssb: Core 0 found: ChipCommon (cc 0x800, rev 0x03, vendor 0x4243)
ssb: Core 1 found: Fast Ethernet (cc 0x806, rev 0x06, vendor 0x4243)
ssb: Core 2 found: Fast Ethernet (cc 0x806, rev 0x06, vendor 0x4243)
ssb: Core 3 found: USB 1.1 Hostdev (cc 0x808, rev 0x03, vendor 0x4243)
ssb: Core 4 found: PCI (cc 0x804, rev 0x08, vendor 0x4243)
ssb: Core 5 found: MIPS 3302 (cc 0x816, rev 0x03, vendor 0x4243)
ssb: Core 6 found: V90 (cc 0x807, rev 0x02, vendor 0x4243)
ssb: Core 7 found: IPSEC (cc 0x80B, rev 0x00, vendor 0x4243)
ssb: Core 8 found: MEMC SDRAM (cc 0x80F, rev 0x02, vendor 0x4243)
ssb: Initializing MIPS core...
ssb: set_irq: core 0x0806, irq 2 => 2
ssb: set_irq: core 0x0806, irq 3 => 3
ssb: set_irq: core 0x0804, irq 0 => 4
ssb: Sonics Silicon Backplane found at address 0x18000000
Determined physical RAM map:
memory: 02000000 @ 00000000 (usable)
Initrd not found or empty - disabling initrd
On node 0 totalpages: 8192
  Normal zone: 64 pages used for memmap
  Normal zone: 0 pages reserved
  Normal zone: 8128 pages, LIFO batch:0
Built 1 zonelists.  Total pages: 8128
Kernel command line: root=/dev/mtdblock2 rootfstype=squashfs,jffs2 init=/etc/preinit noinitrd console=ttyS0,115200
Primary instruction cache 16kB, physically tagged, 2-way, linesize 16 bytes.
Primary data cache 16kB, 2-way, linesize 16 bytes.
Synthesized TLB refill handler (20 instructions).
Synthesized TLB load handler fastpath (32 instructions).
Synthesized TLB store handler fastpath (31 instructions).
Synthesized TLB modify handler fastpath (30 instructions).
PID hash table entries: 128 (order: 7, 512 bytes)
Using 132.000 MHz high precision timer.
Dentry cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 2048 (order: 1, 8192 bytes)
Memory: 29872k/32768k available (2030k kernel code, 2896k reserved, 297k data, 120k init, 0k highmem)
Calibrating delay loop... 263.16 BogoMIPS (lpj=526336)
Mount-cache hash table entries: 512
NET: Registered protocol family 16
ssb: PCIcore in host mode found
registering PCI controller with io_map_base unset
PCI: fixing up bridge
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:00.0 to 64
PCI: Fixing up device 0000:00:00.0
Time: MIPS clocksource has been installed.
NET: Registered protocol family 2
IP route cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
TCP established hash table entries: 1024 (order: 1, 8192 bytes)
TCP bind hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 1024 bind 1024)
TCP reno registered
squashfs: version 3.0 (2006/03/15) Phillip Lougher
Registering mini_fo version $Id$
JFFS2 version 2.2. (NAND) © 2001-2006 Red Hat, Inc.
io scheduler noop registered
io scheduler deadline registered (default)
Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 2 ports, IRQ sharing enabled
serial8250: ttyS0 at MMIO 0x0 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
serial8250: ttyS1 at MMIO 0x0 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
b44.c:v1.01 (Jun 16, 2006)
eth0: Broadcom 10/100BaseT Ethernet 00:1d:60:52:53:d0
eth1: Broadcom 10/100BaseT Ethernet 40:10:18:00:00:2d
flash init: 0x1c000000 0x02000000
Physically mapped flash: Found 1 x16 devices at 0x0 in 16-bit bank
Physically mapped flash: Found an alias at 0x800000 for the chip at 0x0
Physically mapped flash: Found an alias at 0x1000000 for the chip at 0x0
Physically mapped flash: Found an alias at 0x1800000 for the chip at 0x0
Amd/Fujitsu Extended Query Table at 0x0040
Physically mapped flash: CFI does not contain boot bank location. Assuming top.
number of CFI chips: 1
cfi_cmdset_0002: Disabling erase-suspend-program due to code brokenness.
Flash device: 0x800000 at 0x1fc00000
bootloader size: 262144
Creating 4 MTD partitions on "Physically mapped flash":
0x00000000-0x00040000 : "cfe"
0x00040000-0x007f0000 : "linux"
0x000f8000-0x007f0000 : "rootfs"
mtd: partition "rootfs" doesn't start on an erase block boundary -- force read-only
0x00200000-0x007f0000 : "rootfs_data"
0x007f0000-0x00800000 : "nvram"
nf_conntrack version 0.5.0 (256 buckets, 2048 max)
ip_tables: (C) 2000-2006 Netfilter Core Team
TCP vegas registered
NET: Registered protocol family 1
NET: Registered protocol family 17
802.1Q VLAN Support v1.8 Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
All bugs added by David S. Miller <davem@redhat.com>
VFS: Mounted root (squashfs filesystem) readonly.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 120k freed
Warning: unable to open an initial console.
Algorithmics/MIPS FPU Emulator v1.5
diag: Detected 'ASUS WL-500g Premium'
b44: eth0: Link is up at 100 Mbps, full duplex.
b44: eth0: Flow control is off for TX and off for RX.
Probing device eth0: found!
mini_fo: using base directory: /
mini_fo: using storage directory: /jffs
b44: eth0: Link is up at 100 Mbps, full duplex.
b44: eth0: Flow control is off for TX and off for RX.
BFL_ENETADM not set in boardflags. Use force=1 to ignore.
usbcore: registered new interface driver usbfs
usbcore: registered new interface driver hub
device eth0.0 entered promiscuous mode
usbcore: registered new device driver usb
eth0.0: dev_set_promiscuity(master, 1)
device eth0 entered promiscuous mode
eth0.0: add 01:00:5e:00:00:01 mcast address to master interface
br-lan: port 1(eth0.0) entering learning state
br-lan: topology change detected, propagating
br-lan: port 1(eth0.0) entering forwarding state
PPP generic driver version 2.4.2
wlan: 0.8.4.2 (svn r2568)
eth0.1: add 01:00:5e:00:00:01 mcast address to master interface
ath_hal: module license 'Proprietary' taints kernel.
ath_hal: 0.9.30.13 (AR5210, AR5211, AR5212, AR5416, RF5111, RF5112, RF2413, RF5413, RF2133, REGOPS_FUNC)
ath_rate_minstrel: Minstrel automatic rate control algorithm 1.2 (svn r2568)
ath_rate_minstrel: look around rate set to 10%
ath_rate_minstrel: EWMA rolloff level set to 75%
ath_rate_minstrel: max segment size in the mrr set to 6000 us
wlan: mac acl policy registered
ath_pci: 0.9.4.5 (svn r2568)
ohci_hcd: 2006 August 04 USB 1.1 'Open' Host Controller (OHCI) Driver
PCI: Enabling device 0000:00:03.2 (0000 -> 0002)
PCI: Fixing up device 0000:00:03.2
ehci_hcd 0000:00:03.2: EHCI Host Controller
ehci_hcd 0000:00:03.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
ehci_hcd 0000:00:03.2: irq 6, io mem 0x40000000
ehci_hcd 0000:00:03.2: USB 2.0 started, EHCI 1.00, driver 10 Dec 2004
usb usb1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 1-0:1.0: 4 ports detected
usbcore: registered new interface driver cdc_acm
drivers/usb/class/cdc-acm.c: v0.25:USB Abstract Control Model driver for USB modems and ISDN adapters
usbcore: registered new interface driver usbserial
drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c: USB Serial support registered for generic
usbcore: registered new interface driver usbserial_generic
drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c: USB Serial Driver core
SCSI subsystem initialized
Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage
USB Mass Storage support registered.
drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c: USB Serial support registered for airprime
usbcore: registered new interface driver airprime

Here is my lsmod:

root@OpenWrt:~# lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by    Tainted: P
airprime                4752  0
usb_storage            27664  0
sd_mod                 18416  0
scsi_mod               71968  2 usb_storage,sd_mod
usbserial              24032  1 airprime
cdc_acm                10896  0
ehci_hcd               28016  0
ohci_hcd               14064  0
ath_pci                94384  0
wlan_xauth               480  0
wlan_wep                4000  0
wlan_tkip               9664  0
wlan_ccmp               5408  0
wlan_acl                1888  0
ath_rate_minstrel       7840  0
ath_hal               271168  2 ath_pci,ath_rate_minstrel
wlan_scan_sta           8736  0
wlan_scan_ap            2624  0
wlan                  146400  9 ath_pci,wlan_xauth,wlan_wep,wlan_tkip,wlan_ccmp,wlan_acl,ath_rate_minstrel,wlan_scan_sta,wlan_scan_ap
ppp_async               9664  0
ppp_generic            20000  1 ppp_async
slhc                    5408  1 ppp_generic
crc_ccitt               1024  1 ppp_async
vfat                    8512  0
fat                    42448  1 vfat
usbcore               102032  7 airprime,usb_storage,usbserial,cdc_acm,ehci_hcd,ohci_hcd
nls_base                4416  2 vfat,fat
switch_robo             4048  0
switch_core             5056  1 switch_robo
diag                    8272  0

Here is my lsusb:

root@OpenWrt:~# lsusb
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000

I put the modem in a PC on linux and it has been recognized immediatly.

Any ideas?

Thank you,
Radu

From the wiki
http://wiki.openwrt.org/MobileAPHowTo2
It appears that usb-ohci should be running as a module. I don't see it in your lsmod output
So try insmod usb-ohci  and see if that makes a difference

Also try to compare the dmesg output from your linux PC  with that from the Asus wl500gp and
see if you can see what is missing.

Since you are working with a linux 2.6.x kernel - this should eventually work - you will just need to continue persevering and google aroud a bit. You might want to also post the question in the Zapp forums and in other linux groups in your country.

You can also try the openwrt IRC  and you might get lucky and find someone who is willing to help. 
Since I haven't used this modem myself, I'm sorry I don't have more specific suggestions for you

You should blame the weeny power supply, I experienced the similar problem before, My wl-500gp box cannt find my 2.5" usb disk, I guess it should be a power supply problem, So I Change the 5V-2.5A supply with a 5V-3A one, It works like a charm. The usb disk works ok now.
As my experience, Atheros wifi seems need more power consumption than Broadcom's, Since it never happened when I use the Broadcom's before.
And, As I notice, More RJ-45 cable connected devices will cause more power consumption, So cut down some cable connected devices or shutdown the atheros wifi first if possible, Obviously,Change the power supply is  a more direct path.

(Last edited by yellowbug on 8 Apr 2008, 08:27)