Nano installation on a Alix 2D3

[dexznrl]

After installation it runs auto-configure for LAN and WAN. This is messing with my settings because WAN is now a 4G connection via USB.

How do you disable this after installation?

/ Johan

[wurmloch]

Hi Johan,

My idea, just finish the setup with wan on one of the 3 nic. After you finished the wizard, you can reassign whatever you want.

Uwe

[franco]

Hi Johan,

There is no installation on Nano. Skip the wizard if you don't agree with its configuration by navigating away from the page.


Cheers,
Franco

PS: And/or make sure you have a console attached on first boot to make sure it doesn't configure LAN/WAN by default.

[wurmloch]

Sorry,

I was talking about the "wizard" / configuration on the console screen (with serial cable and e.g. PuTTY).

Uwe

[dexznrl]

Exactly what I'm doing. I reassign the interface bit as soon as the unit restart it runs a new auto-configuration and sets WAN to the first free nic.

[franco]

The the USB NIC driver is not available during early boot, hence it mismatches your configuration and forces the defaults.

How do you load the driver during boot?


Cheers,
Franco

[dexznrl]

I have no idea at all. . The USB modem works out of the box.

[franco]

Okay, well, we just need the driver name, then we can make a /boot/loader.conf entry. What's the WiFi driver name in the GUI?

Alternatively a dump of this will help to spot it from the console when it's up and running:

# ifconfig -l

[dexznrl]

Hmmmm I think it's because it also have some storage function.
It's a 4G modem, MF831 from ZTE.

It takes some time for the storage function to be done with so opnsense can't find the interface in time (I think).

The ifconfig -l doesn't give much:

vr0 vr1 vr2 pflog0 pfsync0 enc0 lo0 ue0

ifconfig -L on the other hand gives some more:

vr0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
        options=8280b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,WOL_UCAST,WOL_MAGIC,LINKSTATE>
        ether 00:0d:b9:38:ea:28
        inet 192.168.1.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255
        inet6 fe80::1:1%vr0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1
        nd6 options=21<PERFORMNUD,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
        media: Ethernet autoselect (none)
        status: no carrier
vr1: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
        options=8280b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,WOL_UCAST,WOL_MAGIC,LINKSTATE>
        ether 00:0d:b9:38:ea:29
        inet6 fe80::20d:b9ff:fe38:ea29%vr1 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x2
        nd6 options=21<PERFORMNUD,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
        media: Ethernet autoselect (none)
        status: no carrier
vr2: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
        options=8280b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,WOL_UCAST,WOL_MAGIC,LINKSTATE>
        ether 00:0d:b9:38:ea:2a
        inet6 fe80::20d:b9ff:fe38:ea2a%vr2 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x3
        nd6 options=21<PERFORMNUD,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
        media: Ethernet autoselect (none)
        status: no carrier
pflog0: flags=100<PROMISC> metric 0 mtu 33184
pfsync0: flags=0<> metric 0 mtu 1500
        syncpeer: 0.0.0.0 maxupd: 128 defer: off
enc0: flags=0<> metric 0 mtu 1536
        nd6 options=21<PERFORMNUD,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 16384
        options=600003<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,RXCSUM_IPV6,TXCSUM_IPV6>
        inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000
        inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128
        inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x7
        nd6 options=21<PERFORMNUD,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
ue0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
        ether 36:4b:50:b7:ef:da
        inet6 fe80::344b:50ff:feb7:efda%ue0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x8
        inet 192.168.0.153 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.0.255
        nd6 options=21<PERFORMNUD,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>

Would really appreciate if this could be fixed

/ Johan

[franco]

How long does it take for the modem to become ready?

You could try a simple boot delay:

# mkdir /usr/local/etc/rc.syshook.d
# echo "#!/bin/sh" > /usr/local/etc/rc.syshook.d/4g-delay.early
# echo "sleep 20" >> /usr/local/etc/rc.syshook.d/4g-delay.early
# chmod 755 /usr/local/etc/rc.syshook.d/4g-delay.early

And reboot. "20" is only a guess, it's hard to "correctly" "wait" for the modem to become ready.

[wurmloch]

# echo "sleep 20" > /usr/local/etc/rc.syshook.d/4g-delay.early

# echo "sleep 20" >> /usr ...

[franco]

Fixed, thanks!