Openwrt and USB Tethering

[kiucheng]

I have a ZTE MF821D which is a hostless modem. According to Openwrt it can be setup as USB Tethering for WAN access. http://wiki.openwrt.org/doc/howto/usb.tethering

I am going to give it a try but would like to know which platform is Almond+ so that I can get the okpg package from the correct repository. Or a link to the repository woud be appreciated. Thanks

[LGNilsson]

All the OPKG's supported are included in the firmware I'm afraid. We're going to release the source code, but it hasn't been done yet.

[kiucheng]

Thanks. Any plan to support hostless usb modem in the future?

[LGNilsson]

I know we're going to support USB modems, but I'm not familiar with the terminology you're using, so I'm not sure what the difference is.

[kiucheng]

http://ofmodemsandmen.com/hostless.html

It basically simulates itself as generic usb to ethernet device so it doesn't need a specific driver. Exactly the same as usb tethering on Android phones work.
Since there is already a solution available for Openwrt, I assume it would not be a big issue to implement in Almond+

[LGNilsson]

Oh, interesting, wasn't aware of those.
Apparently 3G/4G support isn't quite as simple as the software team had hoped for, but it's something we should hopefully have in place before the end of the year.
I know this isn't really the answer you were hoping for, but it's the best I can offer right now 

[AcidLotus]

I'd also like the ability to plug in a USB 3G/4G LTE modem and have the router connect through it when the primary ISP is down, if that's possible.

[LGNilsson]

It should be possible to do what's known as "fail over" once we have support for 3G/4G modems. This does exactly what you're asking for.

[sgoodliff]

Hi,

I'm assuming that this isnt going to make it this year but is it sitll on the roadmap ?

Thanks

[LGNilsson]

Yes on both accounts.

[zukhiro]

Is there a roadmap that we can view? and hopefully vote for?

[LGNilsson]

Afraid not.

[desuwulf]

gentle ping

I can't get kmod-usb-net-cdc-ether to work from the unofficial repos:(

This is very much needed for backup internet from many usb 4G/3G sticks and from phones.

Thanks

[LGNilsson]

Check the software development forum, someone made an unofficial repo.

[desuwulf]

tried the unofficial repo... but unfortunately the kmod-usb-net-rndis  kernel panics... I just spent 2 hours wiring up a serial connection to try to recover, eventually succeeding... any chance you could add the modules of http://wiki.openwrt.org/doc/howto/usb.tethering for the next version?