3g modem supported by Bubba 2?

[Lars akerman]

Hi,
I tried to turn my Bubba 2 into a 3 G router by implementing the Wiki guide "Use mobile internet 3g USB dongle as WAN": http://wiki.excito.org/wiki/index.php/U ... gle_as_WAN

However i realised that my 3G USB modem (Huawei e1750) can not be used with the Bubba 2, since Debian 4.0 (etch) lacks support for some features that is needed. The e1750 is imply not recognized by the Bubba 2

What 3g USB modem is supported by Bubba 2?

/Lars

[Lars akerman]

This blog looks promising:
"Huawei E1550 on Debian" http://mathematicalmusings.blogspot.com/

Hower I am a newbie in Linux and failed
Anyone with more Linux skill that will manage to install the "modem-modeswitch" according to the blog?

[Cheeseboy]

Hi Lars,

I tried to compile the udev stuff following the guide, but ran into problems.
First I tried version 167, but it didn't like the version of glib on my old bubba2.
So then I tried version 162 from last year. It didn't like the version of usbutils installed...

Then I gave up.
Conclusion: you can probably get it going but it will take some effort, and it will not work with the latest version of hotplug. Here are my steps so far. You could try it again with an even older version of hotplug, or perhaps try to manually upgrade the stuff the latest version is depending on...

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- Use your favourite editor to edit /etc/apt/sources.list and replace all instances of "http://ftp.se.debian.org/debian" with "http://archive.debian.org/debian".

- Uncomment all of them

- sudo apt-get update

- sudo apt-get build-dep udev

- sudo apt-get install wget gzip gperf pkg-config libglib2.0-dev libacl1-dev libusb-dev usbutils

- wget http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/hotplug/udev-167.tar.gz

- gunzip udev-167.tar.gz

- tar xvf udev-167.tar

- cd udev-167

- ./configure
"Requested 'glib-2.0 >= 2.22.0' but version of GLib is 2.12.4"

- wget http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/hotplug/udev-162.tar.gz

- gunzip udev-162.tar.gz

- tar xvf udev-162.tar

- cd udev-162

- ./configure
"configure: error: Package requirements (usbutils >= 0.82) were not met"

The above assumes you have sudo installed. If you do not, become root before executing each command that begins with "sudo".
If you get configure to finish without errors, the next steps would be :

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make
sudo make install

Good luck!

Cheeseboy

[Lars akerman]

Thanks!

It looks like the debian etch is a dead and the answer from Excito that it will possible be updated in 6 months (my estimate from their answer) but maybe not at all does not give much hope.

Only 3G usb modem that are not sold anymore seems to work.
/Lars

[smartin]

Hi Lars,

I succesfully installed a Huawei E1756 USB modem, on a plain vanilla Bubba2. It worked fantastically well.

The only additional step I had to do was install usb-modeswitch and usb-modeswitch-data by hand as there are packages for these in Etch.

The usb-modeswitch instructions on the web were all I needed to get it up and running.

[Lars akerman]

Nice! Maybe you can give some guidelines how you did?
Thanks
Lars