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18.1 Legacy Series / Netgear 4G/LTE Modem - How to get it recognised at OPNsense Boot
« on: April 11, 2018, 03:54:03 am »
Hi
I'm new to OPNsense but used pfSense for quite some time. I've just installed 18.1 on a spare laptop and my WAN device is a Netgear AC800S 4G/LTE modem. To get the device recognised by OPNsense I've run the console shell and typed in ...
usbconfig -d ugen0.6 set_config 1
The modem is then recognised as an ethernet device with a MAC address.
I then run option 1 "Assign interfaces" from the console and select local ethernet connection for LAN (em0) and Netgear modem for WAN (ue0). Once done I've got internet access and I'm very happy.
The problem is that when the device is rebooted it forgets about the modem. I've created a new file ...
/boot/loader.conf.local
... and added the following line ...
hw.usb.quirk.0=”0x0846 0x68e1 0 0xffff UQ_CFG_INDEX_1”
... as per a forum posting I found here (which worked for pfSense) ...
https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=93393.0
However, when I reboot the modem is not configured on the WAN interface. If I run through the procedure above again I can get it operational.
Does anyone know how I would make the ...
usbconfig -d ugen0.6 set_config 1
... to stick so that the modem is recognised on boot and OPNsense sets up the WAN interface correctly?
Many thanks
Craig
I'm new to OPNsense but used pfSense for quite some time. I've just installed 18.1 on a spare laptop and my WAN device is a Netgear AC800S 4G/LTE modem. To get the device recognised by OPNsense I've run the console shell and typed in ...
usbconfig -d ugen0.6 set_config 1
The modem is then recognised as an ethernet device with a MAC address.
I then run option 1 "Assign interfaces" from the console and select local ethernet connection for LAN (em0) and Netgear modem for WAN (ue0). Once done I've got internet access and I'm very happy.
The problem is that when the device is rebooted it forgets about the modem. I've created a new file ...
/boot/loader.conf.local
... and added the following line ...
hw.usb.quirk.0=”0x0846 0x68e1 0 0xffff UQ_CFG_INDEX_1”
... as per a forum posting I found here (which worked for pfSense) ...
https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=93393.0
However, when I reboot the modem is not configured on the WAN interface. If I run through the procedure above again I can get it operational.
Does anyone know how I would make the ...
usbconfig -d ugen0.6 set_config 1
... to stick so that the modem is recognised on boot and OPNsense sets up the WAN interface correctly?
Many thanks
Craig