Verizon 4G USB Modem

[enesha]

Hey guys hope you can help
     I have a Novatel USB 551L modem here from verizon.  not my choice, just the hardware I was given to work with.  It works fine on Windows.  Took a long time but I got it to work on a ubuntu box - turns out I had an APN issue.  Now on ubuntu I can start a connection just fine.  Now we get to opnsense

The system definitely recognizes the modem.  I see it flash by as it's detected with the USB bus.  Apparently opnsense sees it as I can attempt to set it up under ppp device.  I've checked out various pages on the web.  This on here was clearest  but has most proplems.  https://docs.opnsense.org/manual/how-tos/cellular.html  It seems to indicate deb should detect it at /dev/cuaua0.1 or something.  That I do not have.  I do have a /dev/cuau0 cuau0.init and cuau0.lock. 

When I go into the gui, I can set a ppp device, it auto selected cuau0 and let me walk through the setup and add it.  I even went to assignments and made it the wan.  However I can't seem to figure out how to make it UP.  Noting shows or the IP, and I'm not even entirely sure where to look for any log files that might be being genrtated,

Any thoughts out there in TV land?

[cloudz]

Did you ever get further than this? I found a ZTE cellular modem while cleaning up the garage and am trying the exact same thing. It works in Windows and I also get the same /dev/cuau2