WL-500gP with 3G USB Modem and Oleg's Firmware

[Kalixo]

)))))

Great to hear that!
Thank you very much for replay and solution.

I'll try it in the evening - I'll hope that I didn't change all other options

Would you be so kind and write me down all necessary options to run this modem?

Best Regards,
Kalixo

[BLU BUGATTI]

Excuse me if I am wrong in previous post.

The modem that I set in the router is e220.

Here you find the pictures of how I set the router.




Best Regards

[maucem]

Hi,

I have a Dir-320 and I have successfully installed the latest oleg firmware.

I want use a 3g modem (Huawei E1692) as Wan connection.

I try to flash my router with the latest koppel firmware, but after the flashing procedure and 5 minutes, the router seemed dead.

Is possible use koppel with it?

[Kalixo]

Thanks again. It worked. I had wrong firmware type (gp2 not gp)

[Wicke]

At the moment I have a Asus WL500g.Premium router (1.9.2.7-10-USB-1.70a
) and a Huawei E220 and it works fine.
Now I want to change the Huawei E220 to a Huawei E1750.

But it´s not working to change the dongles.

Is there some settings that need to be changed in some way?

//Wicke

[DaSnake]

At the moment I have a Asus WL500g.Premium router (1.9.2.7-10-USB-1.70a
) and a Huawei E220 and it works fine.
Now I want to change the Huawei E220 to a Huawei E1750.

But it´s not working to change the dongles.

Is there some settings that need to be changed in some way?

//Wicke

Hi,

You should use the following setting in usb_modeswitch.conf

################################################## ######
# Huawei E1550
# Huawei E1750
#
# Contributor: Anders Blomdell, Ahmed Soliman

DefaultVendor= 0x12d1
DefaultProduct= 0x1446

TargetVendor= 0x12d1
TargetProduct= 0x1001

# only for reference and 0.x versions
MessageEndpoint=0x01

MessageContent="5553424312345678000000000000001106 0000000000000000000000000000"



more info here:
http://www.draisberghof.de/usb_modeswitch/

bye

[Wicke]

Hello again

I understand I have to go to
http://192.168.1.1/Advanced_GPRS_Content.asp

and under
Zero CD Configuration -> Modem type:
and then choose User config at /usr/local/etc/usb_modeswitch.conf in the menu.
But some way I have to "upload" och change usb_modeswitch.conf, how do I do that?

//Wicke

Hi,

You should use the following setting in usb_modeswitch.conf

################################################## ######
# Huawei E1550
# Huawei E1750
#
# Contributor: Anders Blomdell, Ahmed Soliman

DefaultVendor= 0x12d1
DefaultProduct= 0x1446

TargetVendor= 0x12d1
TargetProduct= 0x1001

# only for reference and 0.x versions
MessageEndpoint=0x01

MessageContent="5553424312345678000000000000001106 0000000000000000000000000000"



more info here:
http://www.draisberghof.de/usb_modeswitch/

bye

[P Still]

WL-500gP, Huawei e180 (using a USB-hub) and WL500gp-1.9.2.7-10-USB-1.71.trx.

Modem disconnecting now and then ( but modem light saying it's OK ). Then need to do a manuell disconnect and connect or wait 5 min for the router to detect and do an automatic reconnect.
Any solution for this ?

An idea:
A cronjob that everey 15-30 s. check if anyone is connected via LAN or VLAN.
If so check if modem is connected ( ping DNS-server ?).
If not connected, do a reconnect.

I don't mind if modem is not connected when no one is connected to/using router, but otherwise I want modem to have an OK connection. Could also be a solution that disconnect modem when no one is connected to router

Since I'm asking these question you understand that my knowledge with Linux, scripting and so on for wl-500gp is not that good ( otherwise I wouldn't ask) so any solutions must be a bit exact and with good instructions (and I don't mind if it's easy).

Thanks in advance.

[Copter]

Have you tried the Backup-Connection Tab?

You have to enter two IPs into the webif, and klick your modem as primary and backup.

[tjsquire]

Hey - that sounds very much like my own experience with a WL500gPv2 and Huawei e1762 - the router just loses contact with the modem (which still appears to be connected - but there is no internet connectivity, LAN or wireless).

I have not been able to get a reply so far to my posts - hopefully we will hear soon from someone with a solution.

I wonder whether this is the answer:
http://sakis.tel4u.gr/blog/sakis3g/#fastinstall
but I don't have enough (any) programming knowledge to implement it! Perhaps you do - and can help me as well?

Tim

[P Still]

As I wrote in first post:

An idea:
A cronjob that everey 15-30 s. check if anyone is connected via LAN or VLAN.
If so check if modem is connected ( ping DNS-server ?).
If not connected, do a reconnect.

I don't mind if modem is not connected when no one is connected to/using router, but otherwise I want modem to have an OK connection. Could also be a solution that disconnect modem when no one is connected to router

Since I'm asking these question you understand that my knowledge with Linux, scripting and so on for wl-500gp is not that good ( otherwise I wouldn't ask) so any solutions must be a bit exact and with good instructions (and I don't mind if it's easy).

So, do you have an instruction for this or your cronjob (as I'm not that good with Linux)?
If it really works and make all disconnects disappear.

[tjsquire]

Hi all.
I have been using Oleg's 'latest' firmware for the WL500gPv2 (WL500gpV2-1.9.2.7-10-USB-1.71.trx) with a Huawei E1762 USB modem (and USB printers, HDD). I have been happy EXCEPT that the router consistently 'loses' the modem - several times every day.

A power cycle is the only way to fix the problem - temporarily.
The modem light stays on indicating there is still a wireless broadband connection maintained - and there is no problem when connecting modem directly to a computer. I have upgraded the antenna pregressively - now a yagi - so GPRS reception is not the problem.

I tried a recent non-oleg firmware upgrade (WL500gpv2-1.9.2.7-d-r1222.trx) but found it had no USB modem (GPRS) functionality.
I found this was the case initially with the first oleg firmware I loaded (WL500gpv2-1.9.2.7-10.trx). Then I loaded this one (WL500gpV2-1.9.2.7-10-USB-1.71.trx) which has USB GPRS functionality.
So I reloaded the latest oleg one (same as before) - still have the same 'dropout' problems.

I have the Zero CD Configuration setting for the modem type set to "Not set" as my model E1762 is not in the list. I have tried setting it to E169 - no improvement in stability.

Does anyone have a better/updated firmware which includes USB GPRS modem functionality? Or can you help with how to set up the user config option in the modem type setting in Zero CD Configuration? I need your help :-)

Tim

[tjsquire]

Hi.

Can anyone help me set my WL500gPv2 Zero CD configuration for the Huawei E1762 modem? I am using latest (as far as I can tell) Koppel firmware (WL500gpV2-1.9.2.7-10-USB-1.71.trx).

I currently have the modem type as "Not Set" as mine is not on the list. Will using the user config function help the router keep in contact with the modem? Currently it 'loses' the modem often, requiring a power cycle to reboot, re-connect.

Can you please help?

Tim

[Denoud]

Hi.

Got a WL-500gP with a Huawei E200 USB modem that has worked perfectly for years...

But today something happened when I moved the router in my house, and I can't figure out what...


System Log says nothing special (from what I can tell).

"Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/usb/tts/0" is there and
"USB Connection: connected to ISP"


* Wlan works, I can go to the admin web. I can telnet to the router and talk to other computers on the same wlan.

* When I telnet to the router I can (from there) ping IP numbers on internet, telnet to - for example - port 80 on google.com and get a response.

* DNS lookup works. If I - for example - ping www.123.com (never been there I'm sure) I get an IP address to send packets to but no response...


Well.. what doesn't work is connections from the wlan to internet.

If I browse to google.com it shows a "tcp SYN_SENT" in the NAT table (in Status & Log on the router) but never "tcp ESTABLISHED". And I never get a response at all.

The problem is in the router because it's the same symptoms on all computers in the wlan. The E220 works okay (I'm posting this "through it" plugged directly into a computer)


Suggestions anyone? Please? ;-)

[Denoud]

For some reason (maybe when I shut off the power) the
"Backup Connection" / "Connection Possibility" was set to "GPRS/EDGE/UMTS".

Changed it to "WAN" and that solved my problem.

/D.