USB 4G LTE Novatel U679

ZeroSec · August 7, 2014

Hey guys! I just got a USB 4G LTE Novatel U679 and have been trying to set it up with my pineapple, I have my settings as follows:

network.wan2=interface
network.wan2.ifname=ppp0
network.wan2.proto=3g
network.wan2.service=umts
network.wan2.device=/dev/ttyUSB0
network.wan2.apn=inet.bell.ca
network.wan2.username= 
network.wan2.password= 
network.wan2.defaultroute=1
network.wan2.ppp_redial=persist
network.wan2.peerdns=1
network.wan2.dns=8.8.8.8
network.wan2.keepalive=1
network.wan2.pppd_options=debug

And this is not working. The odd thing is that when I first plug it into my pineapple the led ON THE STICK flashes for 10-20 seconds, then just goes out. whereas when it is plugged into my computer (even if not connected to a network) it is always on.

Also I have tried nearly every "service" to no success, could it be that the stick is 4g and the "protocol" is 3g?

I know this isn't a "supported" device. But I would appreciate any help you guys can give me :)

Foxtrot · August 7, 2014

Post the output of "dmesg" into spoiler tags here

Smarty · August 8, 2014

Could also be a power issue. MK5 puts out 0.5A on the usb port. If your 4G stick draws more it will fail. Dont use battery power on the MK5 while testing and possibly try it with a powered usb hub.. (Just make shure the hub doesnt backfeed power to the MK5)

ZeroSec · August 10, 2014

Post the output of "dmesg" into spoiler tags here

root@Pineapple:~# dmesg

[ 0.000000] Linux version 3.3.8 (sebkinne@WorstationMeltdown) (gcc version 4.6.3 20120201 (prerelease) (Linaro GCC 4.6-2012.02) ) #21 Fri May 23 22:17:04 CEST 2014

[ 0.000000] MyLoader: sysp=97d936c9, boardp=61b798de, parts=6238a85e

[ 0.000000] bootconsole [early0] enabled

[ 0.000000] CPU revision is: 00019374 (MIPS 24Kc)

[ 0.000000] SoC: Atheros AR9330 rev 1

[ 0.000000] Clocks: CPU:400.000MHz, DDR:400.000MHz, AHB:200.000MHz, Ref:25.000MHz

[ 0.000000] Determined physical RAM map:

[ 0.000000] memory: 04000000 @ 00000000 (usable)

[ 0.000000] Initrd not found or empty - disabling initrd

[ 0.000000] Zone PFN ranges:

[ 0.000000] Normal 0x00000000 -> 0x00004000

[ 0.000000] Movable zone start PFN for each node

[ 0.000000] Early memory PFN ranges

[ 0.000000] 0: 0x00000000 -> 0x00004000

[ 0.000000] On node 0 totalpages: 16384

[ 0.000000] free_area_init_node: node 0, pgdat 802d8470, node_mem_map 81000000

[ 0.000000] Normal zone: 128 pages used for memmap

[ 0.000000] Normal zone: 0 pages reserved

[ 0.000000] Normal zone: 16256 pages, LIFO batch:3

[ 0.000000] pcpu-alloc: s0 r0 d32768 u32768 alloc=1*32768

[ 0.000000] pcpu-alloc: [0] 0

[ 0.000000] Built 1 zonelists in Zone order, mobility grouping on. Total pages: 16256

[ 0.000000] Kernel command line: board=MK5 console=ttyATH0,115200 rootfstype=squashfs,jffs2 noinitrd

[ 0.000000] PID hash table entries: 256 (order: -2, 1024 bytes)

[ 0.000000] Dentry cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)

[ 0.000000] Inode-cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)

[ 0.000000] Primary instruction cache 64kB, VIPT, 4-way, linesize 32 bytes.

[ 0.000000] Primary data cache 32kB, 4-way, VIPT, cache aliases, linesize 32 bytes

[ 0.000000] Writing ErrCtl register=00000000

[ 0.000000] Readback ErrCtl register=00000000

[ 0.000000] Memory: 61592k/65536k available (2124k kernel code, 3944k reserved, 406k data, 212k init, 0k highmem)

[ 0.000000] SLUB: Genslabs=9, HWalign=32, Order=0-3, MinObjects=0, CPUs=1, Nodes=1

[ 0.000000] NR_IRQS:51

[ 0.000000] Calibrating delay loop... 265.42 BogoMIPS (lpj=1327104)

[ 0.080000] pid_max: default: 32768 minimum: 301

[ 0.080000] Mount-cache hash table entries: 512

[ 0.090000] NET: Registered protocol family 16

[ 0.090000] gpiochip_add: registered GPIOs 0 to 29 on device: ath79

[ 0.100000] MIPS: machine is MK5 V1.0

[ 0.350000] bio: create slab <bio-0> at 0

[ 0.360000] Switching to clocksource MIPS

[ 0.360000] NET: Registered protocol family 2

[ 0.370000] IP route cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)

[ 0.370000] TCP established hash table entries: 2048 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)

[ 0.370000] TCP bind hash table entries: 2048 (order: 1, 8192 bytes)

[ 0.380000] TCP: Hash tables configured (established 2048 bind 2048)

[ 0.390000] TCP reno registered

[ 0.390000] UDP hash table entries: 256 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)

[ 0.400000] UDP-Lite hash table entries: 256 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)

[ 0.400000] NET: Registered protocol family 1

[ 0.410000] PCI: CLS 0 bytes, default 32

[ 0.430000] squashfs: version 4.0 (2009/01/31) Phillip Lougher

[ 0.440000] msgmni has been set to 120

[ 0.440000] io scheduler noop registered

[ 0.450000] io scheduler deadline registered (default)

[ 0.450000] Serial: 8250/16550 driver, 1 ports, IRQ sharing disabled

[ 0.460000] ar933x-uart: ttyATH0 at MMIO 0x18020000 (irq = 11) is a AR933X UART

[ 0.470000] console [ttyATH0] enabled, bootconsole disabled

[ 0.480000] m25p80 spi0.0: found w25q128, expected m25p80

[ 0.480000] m25p80 spi0.0: w25q128 (16384 Kbytes)

[ 0.490000] 5 tp-link partitions found on MTD device spi0.0

[ 0.490000] Creating 5 MTD partitions on "spi0.0":

[ 0.500000] 0x000000000000-0x000000020000 : "u-boot"

[ 0.510000] 0x000000020000-0x000000102744 : "kernel"

[ 0.510000] mtd: partition "kernel" must either start or end on erase block boundary or be smaller than an erase block -- forcing read-only

[ 0.520000] 0x000000102744-0x000000ff0000 : "rootfs"

[ 0.530000] mtd: partition "rootfs" must either start or end on erase block boundary or be smaller than an erase block -- forcing read-only

[ 0.540000] mtd: partition "rootfs" set to be root filesystem

[ 0.550000] mtd: partition "rootfs_data" created automatically, ofs=C50000, len=3A0000

[ 0.550000] 0x000000c50000-0x000000ff0000 : "rootfs_data"

[ 0.560000] 0x000000ff0000-0x000001000000 : "art"

[ 0.570000] 0x000000020000-0x000000ff0000 : "firmware"

[ 0.590000] ag71xx_mdio: probed

[ 0.590000] eth0: Atheros AG71xx at 0xb9000000, irq 4

[ 1.150000] ag71xx ag71xx.0: eth0: connected to PHY at ag71xx-mdio.1:04 [uid=004dd041, driver=Generic PHY]

[ 1.160000] TCP cubic registered

[ 1.160000] NET: Registered protocol family 17

[ 1.160000] Bridge firewalling registered

[ 1.170000] 8021q: 802.1Q VLAN Support v1.8

[ 1.180000] VFS: Mounted root (squashfs filesystem) readonly on device 31:2.

[ 1.180000] Freeing unused kernel memory: 212k freed

[ 3.460000] Registered led device: mk5:red:wlan1

[ 3.460000] Registered led device: mk5:blue:wlan0

[ 3.470000] Registered led device: mk5:amber:lan

[ 6.780000] JFFS2 notice: (421) jffs2_build_xattr_subsystem: complete building xattr subsystem, 7 of xdatum (1 unchecked, 5 orphan) and 43 of xref (0 dead, 27 orphan) found.

[ 7.750000] SCSI subsystem initialized

[ 8.050000] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbfs

[ 8.060000] usbcore: registered new interface driver hub

[ 8.060000] usbcore: registered new device driver usb

[ 8.410000] eth0: link up (100Mbps/Full duplex)

[ 8.610000] ehci_hcd: USB 2.0 'Enhanced' Host Controller (EHCI) Driver

[ 8.610000] ehci-platform ehci-platform: Generic Platform EHCI Controller

[ 8.620000] ehci-platform ehci-platform: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1

[ 8.660000] ehci-platform ehci-platform: irq 3, io mem 0x1b000000

[ 8.680000] ehci-platform ehci-platform: USB 2.0 started, EHCI 1.00

[ 8.680000] hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found

[ 8.680000] hub 1-0:1.0: 1 port detected

[ 8.790000] ohci_hcd: USB 1.1 'Open' Host Controller (OHCI) Driver

[ 8.920000] uhci_hcd: USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver

[ 9.040000] Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...

[ 9.040000] usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage

[ 9.050000] USB Mass Storage support registered.

[ 9.150000] usb 1-1: new high-speed USB device number 2 using ehci-platform

[ 9.300000] hub 1-1:1.0: USB hub found

[ 9.300000] hub 1-1:1.0: 4 ports detected

[ 9.580000] usb 1-1.1: new high-speed USB device number 3 using ehci-platform

[ 9.800000] usb 1-1.2: new high-speed USB device number 4 using ehci-platform

[ 9.930000] scsi0 : usb-storage 1-1.2:1.0

[ 10.040000] usb 1-1.4: new high-speed USB device number 5 using ehci-platform

[ 10.170000] scsi1 : usb-storage 1-1.4:1.0

[ 10.940000] scsi 0:0:0:0: CD-ROM NVTL Mass Storage 2.31 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2

[ 11.170000] scsi 1:0:0:0: Direct-Access Multi Flash Reader 1.00 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0

[ 11.790000] sd 1:0:0:0: [sda] 3686400 512-byte logical blocks: (1.88 GB/1.75 GiB)

[ 11.790000] sd 1:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off

[ 11.800000] sd 1:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 03 00 00 00

[ 11.800000] sd 1:0:0:0: [sda] No Caching mode page present

[ 11.800000] sd 1:0:0:0: [sda] Assuming drive cache: write through

[ 11.810000] sd 1:0:0:0: [sda] No Caching mode page present

[ 11.820000] sd 1:0:0:0: [sda] Assuming drive cache: write through

[ 11.830000] sda: sda1 sda2

[ 11.830000] sd 1:0:0:0: [sda] No Caching mode page present

[ 11.840000] sd 1:0:0:0: [sda] Assuming drive cache: write through

[ 11.840000] sd 1:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI removable disk

[ 29.460000] eth0: link down

[ 30.420000] Loading modules backported from Linux version master-2014-01-23-0-g62c147d

[ 30.430000] Backport generated by backports.git backports-20140124-0-g1256d3e

[ 30.540000] cfg80211: Calling CRDA to update world regulatory domain

[ 30.550000] cfg80211: World regulatory domain updated:

[ 30.550000] cfg80211: DFS Master region: unset

[ 30.560000] cfg80211: (start_freq - end_freq @ bandwidth), (max_antenna_gain, max_eirp)

[ 30.570000] cfg80211: (2402000 KHz - 2472000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (300 mBi, 2000 mBm)

[ 30.570000] cfg80211: (2457000 KHz - 2482000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (300 mBi, 2000 mBm)

[ 30.580000] cfg80211: (2474000 KHz - 2494000 KHz @ 20000 KHz), (300 mBi, 2000 mBm)

[ 30.590000] cfg80211: (5170000 KHz - 5250000 KHz @ 80000 KHz), (300 mBi, 2000 mBm)

[ 30.600000] cfg80211: (5735000 KHz - 5835000 KHz @ 80000 KHz), (300 mBi, 2000 mBm)

[ 30.610000] cfg80211: (57240000 KHz - 63720000 KHz @ 2160000 KHz), (N/A, 0 mBm)

[ 32.100000] usbcore: registered new interface driver rt73usb

[ 32.150000] ath: phy0: Enable LNA combining

[ 32.150000] ath: EEPROM regdomain: 0x0

[ 32.150000] ath: EEPROM indicates default country code should be used

[ 32.150000] ath: doing EEPROM country->regdmn map search

[ 32.150000] ath: country maps to regdmn code: 0x3a

[ 32.150000] ath: Country alpha2 being used: US

[ 32.150000] ath: Regpair used: 0x3a

[ 32.170000] ieee80211 phy0: Selected rate control algorithm 'minstrel_ht'

[ 32.170000] Registered led device: ath9k-phy0

[ 32.170000] ieee80211 phy0: Atheros AR9330 Rev:1 mem=0xb8100000, irq=2

[ 32.180000] cfg80211: Calling CRDA for country: US

[ 32.180000] cfg80211: Regulatory domain changed to country: US

[ 32.180000] cfg80211: DFS Master region: FCC

[ 32.190000] cfg80211: (start_freq - end_freq @ bandwidth), (max_antenna_gain, max_eirp)

[ 32.200000] cfg80211: (2402000 KHz - 2472000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (300 mBi, 2700 mBm)

[ 32.200000] cfg80211: (5170000 KHz - 5250000 KHz @ 80000 KHz), (300 mBi, 1700 mBm)

[ 32.210000] cfg80211: (5250000 KHz - 5330000 KHz @ 80000 KHz), (300 mBi, 2400 mBm)

[ 32.220000] cfg80211: (5490000 KHz - 5600000 KHz @ 80000 KHz), (300 mBi, 2400 mBm)

[ 32.230000] cfg80211: (5650000 KHz - 5710000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (300 mBi, 2400 mBm)

[ 32.240000] cfg80211: (5735000 KHz - 5835000 KHz @ 80000 KHz), (300 mBi, 3000 mBm)

[ 32.240000] cfg80211: (57240000 KHz - 63720000 KHz @ 2160000 KHz), (N/A, 4000 mBm)

[ 32.530000] ieee80211 phy1: Selected rate control algorithm 'minstrel_ht'

[ 32.530000] ieee80211 phy1: hwaddr 00:13:37:89:d0:3f, RTL8187vB (default) V1 + rtl8225z2, rfkill mask 2

[ 32.560000] rtl8187: Customer ID is 0x46

[ 32.560000] Registered led device: rtl8187-phy1::radio

[ 32.560000] Registered led device: rtl8187-phy1::tx

[ 32.560000] Registered led device: rtl8187-phy1::rx

[ 32.560000] rtl8187: wireless switch is on

[ 32.560000] usbcore: registered new interface driver rtl8187

[ 32.640000] Button Hotplug driver version 0.4.1

[ 32.860000] RPC: Registered named UNIX socket transport module.

[ 32.860000] RPC: Registered udp transport module.

[ 32.870000] RPC: Registered tcp transport module.

[ 32.870000] RPC: Registered tcp NFSv4.1 backchannel transport module.

[ 33.190000] PPP generic driver version 2.4.2

[ 33.220000] usbcore: registered new interface driver rt2800usb

[ 33.350000] tun: Universal TUN/TAP device driver, 1.6

[ 33.930000] NET: Registered protocol family 24

[ 34.080000] nf_conntrack version 0.5.0 (965 buckets, 3860 max)

[ 34.780000] xt_time: kernel timezone is -0000

[ 35.300000] usbcore: registered new interface driver ath9k_htc

[ 35.530000] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbserial

[ 35.540000] USB Serial support registered for generic

[ 35.540000] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbserial_generic

[ 35.550000] usbserial: USB Serial Driver core

[ 35.690000] usbcore: registered new interface driver asix

[ 35.750000] usbcore: registered new interface driver cdc_ether

[ 35.990000] Error: Driver 'gpio-keys-polled' is already registered, aborting...

[ 36.100000] usbcore: registered new interface driver rndis_host

[ 36.200000] scsi 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 5

[ 36.210000] sd 1:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 0

[ 36.230000] USB Serial support registered for GSM modem (1-port)

[ 36.240000] usbcore: registered new interface driver option

[ 36.240000] option: v0.7.2:USB Driver for GSM modems

[ 36.270000] USB Serial support registered for pl2303

[ 36.270000] usbcore: registered new interface driver pl2303

[ 36.270000] pl2303: Prolific PL2303 USB to serial adaptor driver

[ 42.450000] usb 1-1.2: USB disconnect, device number 4

[ 43.380000] usb 1-1.2: new high-speed USB device number 6 using ehci-platform

[ 43.510000] usb 1-1.2: config 1 has an invalid interface number: 6 but max is 5

[ 43.510000] usb 1-1.2: config 1 has an invalid interface number: 7 but max is 5

[ 43.520000] usb 1-1.2: config 1 has an invalid interface number: 7 but max is 5

[ 43.530000] usb 1-1.2: config 1 has no interface number 4

[ 43.530000] usb 1-1.2: config 1 has no interface number 5

[ 43.560000] cdc_ether 1-1.2:1.6: eth1: register 'cdc_ether' at usb-ehci-platform-1.2, CDC Ethernet Device, 00:a0:c6:00:00:00

[ 44.630000] device eth0 entered promiscuous mode

[ 44.650000] cdc_ether 1-1.2:1.6: eth1: CDC: unexpected notification 01!

[ 44.780000] eth0: link up (100Mbps/Full duplex)

[ 44.780000] br-lan: port 1(eth0) entered forwarding state

[ 44.790000] br-lan: port 1(eth0) entered forwarding state

[ 46.790000] br-lan: port 1(eth0) entered forwarding state

[ 50.510000] device wlan0 entered promiscuous mode

[ 50.780000] eth0: link down

[ 50.860000] br-lan: port 2(wlan0) entered forwarding state

[ 51.510000] br-lan: port 1(eth0) entered disabled state

[ 52.860000] br-lan: port 2(wlan0) entered forwarding state

[ 54.780000] eth0: link up (100Mbps/Full duplex)

[ 54.780000] br-lan: port 1(eth0) entered forwarding state

[ 54.790000] br-lan: port 1(eth0) entered forwarding state

[ 56.790000] br-lan: port 1(eth0) entered forwarding state

[ 61.240000] wlan1: authenticate with 38:60:77:88:57:3e

[ 62.520000] wlan1: send auth to 38:60:77:88:57:3e (try 1/3)

[ 62.520000] wlan1: authenticated

[ 62.590000] wlan1: associate with 38:60:77:88:57:3e (try 1/3)

[ 62.770000] wlan1: RX AssocResp from 38:60:77:88:57:3e (capab=0x411 status=0 aid=8)

[ 62.800000] wlan1: associated

[ 75.950000] FPU emulator disabled, make sure your toolchainwas compiled with software floating point support (soft-float)

root@Pineapple:~# clear