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Securifi Products => Almond+ => Topic started by: kiucheng on August 24, 2014, 05:43:43 am

Title: Openwrt and USB Tethering
Post by: kiucheng on August 24, 2014, 05:43:43 am

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

Title: Re: Openwrt and USB Tethering
Post by: LGNilsson on August 24, 2014, 06:09:25 am

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.

Title: Re: Openwrt and USB Tethering
Post by: kiucheng on August 24, 2014, 09:38:40 am

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

Title: Re: Openwrt and USB Tethering
Post by: LGNilsson on August 24, 2014, 10:15:55 am

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.

Title: Re: Openwrt and USB Tethering
Post by: kiucheng on August 24, 2014, 01:49:43 pm

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+

Title: Re: Openwrt and USB Tethering
Post by: LGNilsson on August 26, 2014, 10:13:47 am

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  :-\

Title: Re: Openwrt and USB Tethering
Post by: AcidLotus on August 27, 2014, 08:42:37 am

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.

Title: Re: Openwrt and USB Tethering
Post by: LGNilsson on August 27, 2014, 11:23:26 am

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.

Title: Re: Openwrt and USB Tethering
Post by: sgoodliff on December 18, 2014, 05:17:55 am

Hi,

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

Thanks

Title: Re: Openwrt and USB Tethering
Post by: LGNilsson on December 18, 2014, 06:28:41 am

Yes on both accounts.

Title: Re: Openwrt and USB Tethering
Post by: zukhiro on December 22, 2014, 01:32:43 am

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

Title: Re: Openwrt and USB Tethering
Post by: LGNilsson on December 22, 2014, 03:01:31 am

Afraid not.

Title: Re: Openwrt and USB Tethering
Post by: desuwulf on January 02, 2015, 03:16:11 pm

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

Title: Re: Openwrt and USB Tethering
Post by: LGNilsson on January 02, 2015, 09:50:33 pm

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

Title: Re: Openwrt and USB Tethering
Post by: desuwulf on January 03, 2015, 12:55:05 pm

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?

Title: Re: Openwrt and USB Tethering
Post by: lowdrag on June 06, 2017, 02:02:59 pm

Can you connect a phone via usb yet to use as wan internet?