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Topic: E303 on TL-WR703N - no network device showing up?

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Hi,

trying to get openwrt on a TP-Link TL-WR703N to work with my Huawai E303 for quite a while now, seems I'm a bit slow in getting forward, hope there are some comments to speed me up.

Hardware:
    TL-WR703N (1.7 FW), installed "OpenWrt Barrier Breaker r36006"
    Huawai E303, just arrived from EPLUS Germany (12d1:14db)

OpenWrt install was cumbersome, but once I noticed I don't have to compile (thought i had to because of 1.7 HW) it worked fine. LUCI install failed twice, seems the device (4MB) is to small.

Now - I've been struggeling with the E303:
    - lsusb shows 12d1:14db from the beginning. Played with usb_modeswitch w/o any avail until I read a comment that :14db means I don't have to do so.
    - opkg install usbutils kmod-usb-serial kmod-usb2 kmod-usb-uhci kmod-usb-ohci usb-modeswitch usb-modeswitch-data comgt
    - opkg install kmod-usb-acm kmod-usb-serial-option
    - /etc/modules.d/60-usb-serial
        usbserial vendor=0x12d1 product=0x14db

With that done, I get dmesg to notice a GSM Modem. That's good? and took quite a while.

[   10.000000] usbcore: registered new interface driver cdc_acm
[color=blue][   10.010000] cdc_acm: USB Abstract Control Model driver for USB modems and ISDN adapters
[   10.050000] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbserial
[   10.050000] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbserial_generic
[   10.060000] usbserial: USB Serial support registered for generic
[   10.100000] usbserial_generic 1-1:1.0: Generic device with no bulk out, not allowed.
[   10.100000] usbserial_generic: probe of 1-1:1.0 failed with error -5
[   10.110000] usbserial_generic 1-1:1.1: The "generic" usb-serial driver is only for testing and one-off prototypes.
[   10.120000] usbserial_generic 1-1:1.1: Tell linux-usb@vger.kernel.org to add your device to a proper driver.
[   10.130000] usbserial_generic 1-1:1.1: generic converter detected
[   10.140000] usb 1-1: generic converter now attached to ttyUSB0
[   10.170000] usbcore: registered new interface driver option
[   10.170000] usbserial: USB Serial support registered for GSM modem (1-port)[/color]
[   15.110000] device eth0 entered promiscuous mode
[   15.290000] eth0: link up (100Mbps/Full duplex)
[   15.290000] br-lan: port 1(eth0) entered forwarding state
[   15.300000] br-lan: port 1(eth0) entered forwarding state
[   17.300000] br-lan: port 1(eth0) entered forwarding state
[   20.910000] device wlan0 entered promiscuous mode
[   21.390000] br-lan: port 2(wlan0) entered forwarding state
[   21.400000] br-lan: port 2(wlan0) entered forwarding state
[   23.400000] br-lan: port 2(wlan0) entered forwarding state

/etc/config/network has a ppp0 device - which never appears in "ifconfig -a"

config interface ppp0
        option ifname  ppp0
        option proto   3g
        option service umts
        option device  /dev/ttyUSB0
        option username eplus
        option password eplus
        option apn     internet.eplus.de
        option pincode ****

# ll /dev/ttyUSB0 
     0 crw-rw-rw-    1 root     root      188,   0 Mar 16 15:59 /dev/ttyUSB0

#ifup ppp0
#logread
.
.
Mar 16 16:04:20 openwrt authpriv.notice dropbear[1210]: Pubkey auth succeeded for 'root' with key md5 ****
Mar 16 16:09:50 openwrt daemon.notice netifd: Interface 'ppp0' is now down
# ifconfig -a |grep Link
br-lan    Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 14:CF:92:52:11:FE  
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 14:CF:92:52:11:FE  
lo        Link encap:Local Loopback  
wlan0     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 14:CF:92:52:11:FE  

I thought with the modem up I'd be good - but i can't get a new device to show up for IP configuration?

Any suggestions are very welcome :-)
ItsMee

(Last edited by itsmee on 16 Mar 2013, 17:14)

Did you by any change get this to work ? I'm struggling with the exact same thing , an E303 huawei on a arduino Yun

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