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Razzlerock

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Hi guys... Well, I thought life was going well with my beloved pineapple until I experienced an issue today :wacko:

Basically, I have the pineapple connect to a USB hub and the hub connects to a 3g dongle and a USB sandisk. Nothing special. The pineapple is configured to start 3g on boot and 3g keepalive. In addition, ssh on boot, ssh keepalive is also setup. I basically want my pineapple to autossh 'home' using 3g on boot up. If, for some reason, the 3g dies it should restart it....and if the ssh tunnel dies it should re-attempt a new tunnel.

This works, on boot up. However, after about 1-2 hours I lose connectivity over ssh. Investigation shows that the 3g is 'down' and it cannot restart itself. I have to power cycle the pineapple but then 1-2 hours later the same thing happens. The 3g dongle has a blue lit display, which indicates it is connected, but there is no IP address assigned on the pineapple???

  • Pineapple Hardware Version: Mark IV
  • Pineapple Software Version: 2.7.0
  • OS used to connect to the pineapple: Firefox
  • All the tools/options that are running on the pineapple when the issue happened: 3g/autossh/karma
  • Ping results from computer to pineapple:
  • Is the problem repeatable (Yes/No): Yes, the problem does re-occur but the time interval varie

When I tried to manually invoke the 3g-keepalive script I get;

root@Pineapple:~# /pineapple/3g/3g-keepalive.sh

ifconfig: 3g-wan2: error fetching interface information: Device not found

Searching for attached 3G Modems

1d6b:0002 05e3:0606 0781:5571 12d1:1506

Huawei E398 detected. Attempting mode switch

Looking for default devices ...

found matching product ID

adding device

Found device in default mode, class or configuration (1)

Accessing device 004 on bus 001 ...

Getting the current device configuration ...

OK, got current device configuration (1)

Using first interface: 0x00

Using endpoints 0x01 (out) and 0x82 (in)

Not a storage device, skipping SCSI inquiry

USB description data (for identification)

-------------------------

Manufacturer: Huawei Technologies

Product: HUAWEI Mobile

Serial No.: not provided

-------------------------

Warning: no switching method given.

-> Run lsusb to note any changes. Bye.

rmmod: can't unload 'usbserial': Resource temporarily unavailable

insmod: can't insert 'usbserial': File exists

/pineapple/3g/3g.sh: line 59: /etc/init.d/firewall: not found

/pineapple/3g/3g.sh: line 59: /etc/init.d/firewall: not found

root@Pineapple:~#

When I try to manually start the 3g-connect script I get;

root@Pineapple:~# /pineapple/3g/3g.sh

Searching for attached 3G Modems

1d6b:0002 05e3:0606 0781:5571 12d1:1506

Huawei E398 detected. Attempting mode switch

Looking for default devices ...

found matching product ID

adding device

Found device in default mode, class or configuration (1)

Accessing device 004 on bus 001 ...

Getting the current device configuration ...

OK, got current device configuration (1)

Using first interface: 0x00

Using endpoints 0x01 (out) and 0x82 (in)

Not a storage device, skipping SCSI inquiry

USB description data (for identification)

-------------------------

Manufacturer: Huawei Technologies

Product: HUAWEI Mobile

Serial No.: not provided

-------------------------

Warning: no switching method given.

-> Run lsusb to note any changes. Bye.

rmmod: can't unload 'usbserial': Resource temporarily unavailable

insmod: can't insert 'usbserial': File exists

/pineapple/3g/3g.sh: line 59: /etc/init.d/firewall: not found

/pineapple/3g/3g.sh: line 59: /etc/init.d/firewall: not found

root@Pineapple:~#

Any ideas?

Razzlerock

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Apologies for replies to my own post.... but did the 3g script change from v2.5 to V2.7? I re-used the 3g script (below) that was working on v2.5. If someone has the 'default' 3g script for v2.7 please post it (I don't want to re-flash just to find out the default 3g script!).

#!/bin/sh

# ---------------------------------------------------------

# 3G Connection Script for WiFi Pineapple. "Does the thing"

#

# Version: 2012-02-17

# Supports:

#

# ZTE MF591 (T-Mobile) -dkitchen

# Novatel MC760 (Virgin) -dkitchen

# Novatel MC760 (Ting) -dkitchen

# Sierra 598u (Ting) -brianzimm

# And more.

#

# Updates: wifipineapple.com

# ---------------------------------------------------------

# -----------------------------------------------------------

# Configure /etc/ppp/options with hard-coded working settings

# -----------------------------------------------------------

echo "

logfile /dev/null

noaccomp

nopcomp

nocrtscts

lock

maxfail 0" > /etc/ppp/options

# --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

# Check for known usb modem vendor and product IDs then switch 'em from storage to serial modem mode

# --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

echo "Searching for attached 3G Modems"

logger "3G: Connection Script here, searching for modems"

MODEM=$(lsusb | awk '{ print $6 }')

echo $MODEM

case "$MODEM" in

*12d1:1506*) echo "Huawei E398 detected. Attempting mode switch"

uci delete network.wan2

uci set network.wan2=interface

uci set network.wan2.ifname=ppp0

uci set network.wan2.proto=3g

uci set network.wan2.service=umts

uci set network.wan2.device=/dev/ttyUSB0

uci set network.wan2.apn=telstra.internet

uci set network.wan2.defaultroute=1

uci commit network

usb_modeswitch -v 12d1 -p 1506

sleep 10; rmmod usbserial

sleep 3; insmod usbserial vendor=0x12d1 product=0x1506

sleep 5; /etc/init.d/firewall disable; /etc/init.d/firewall stop

logger "3G: firewall stopped"

iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -s 172.16.42.0/24 -o 3g-wan2 -j MASQUERADE

iptables -A FORWARD -s 172.16.42.0/24 -o 3g-wan2 -j ACCEPT

iptables -A FORWARD -d 172.16.42.0/24 -m state --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -i 3g-wan2 -j ACCEPT

;;

esac

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