Huawei ME906s support in OPNSense 20.7

[TheSmoker]

Hello OPNSense community,

As mentioned here: https://forum.opnsense.org/index.php?topic=18309.0
I've managed to get ME906s-158 recognized and functional by adding the vendor&device ids to the proper files in
FreeBSD 12.1-p7. Info here: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=231909

As I've installed OPNSense 20.7 I've saw that u3g is compiled within kernel (not available as a loadable module).
Give this development can anyone let me know what will happed if I replace the kernel (as I will need to recompile a new kernel on a HardenedBSD 12.1-p7 install) to get this working?

Is there any way to get the module installed as a plugin/patch?

Is there any other smarter way to get this working that I did not mentioned?

Thanks and regards!

[bartjsmit]

Is there any other smarter way to get this working that I did not mentioned?

I get very good results with a TP-Link TL-MR6400 and a pair of external antennas. It has the added benefit that you can site it for best 4G reception, which may not be the same place where your firewall sits now.

Bart...

[TheSmoker]

Sorry but that is not an option. The modules is installed in a server:
https://www.supermicro.com/en/products/system/1u/5019/SYS-5019D-FN8TP.cfm
I cannot occupy any other space in that communication rack, so it has to be an M.2 B-Key 4G/LTE module that IS supported.

The funny thing is that ME906s-158 could be supported if you add vendor_id & hardware_id to two different files related to u3g. Afterwards it just works.