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English Forums => Hardware and Performance => Topic started by: dlasher on May 07, 2017, 08:30:35 am

Title: 3G / 4G Modem Support
Post by: dlasher on May 07, 2017, 08:30:35 am

I dug through the docs, and I don't see this explicitly mentioned, so I figured I'd ask here.


Are 2G/3G/4G modems on the roadmap for OPNSense support? I see the couple that are presently supported, but I have several, from a variety of carriers, and none of them are supported.

T-Mobile: 4G Rocket
OPNsense root: Unknown USB device: vendor 0x19d2 product 0x0157 bus uhub1

AT&T Beam (Netgear 340U)
OPNsense root: Unknown USB device: vendor 0x1199 product 0x9051 bus uhub1

Verizon 4G/LTE 551L
OPNsense root: Unknown USB device: vendor 0x1410 product 0xb001 bus uhub1

They're all well supported under linux in recent kernels, using qmi, mbim, ncm, or rndis.

Title: Re: 3G / 4G Modem Support
Post by: monstermania on May 08, 2017, 10:33:34 am

Hi,
if some device ist supported by OPNsense it depends on the driver support of FreeBSD.
Take a look into FreeBSD docs: https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=u3g&sektion=4&manpath=freebsd-release-ports
or the forum
https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/56780/

Generally the support of wireless devices into FreeBSD ist not as good as under Linux!

regards
Dirk

Title: Re: 3G / 4G Modem Support
Post by: kug1977 on May 11, 2017, 05:04:40 pm

Hi,

I've setup a HG Sierra UMTS 3G HSPDA PCI-E MC8775 3G PCI-Express Mini. It's using /dev/cua0.0 which seems a bit odd, but it's working.

King regards,
Kay-Uwe Genz