From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 2 14:42:54 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id F3FBEB73; Tue, 2 Sep 2014 14:42:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smarthost1.sentex.ca (smarthost1.sentex.ca [IPv6:2607:f3e0:0:1::12]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "smarthost.sentex.ca", Issuer "smarthost.sentex.ca" (not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id BAADE103F; Tue, 2 Sep 2014 14:42:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [IPv6:2607:f3e0:0:4:f025:8813:7603:7e4a] (saphire3.sentex.ca [IPv6:2607:f3e0:0:4:f025:8813:7603:7e4a]) by smarthost1.sentex.ca (8.14.9/8.14.9) with ESMTP id s82EgnPx021214; Tue, 2 Sep 2014 10:42:49 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Message-ID: <5405D76A.3060400@sentex.net> Date: Tue, 02 Sep 2014 10:42:50 -0400 From: Mike Tancsa Organization: Sentex Communications User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: atar Subject: Re: Using a USB modem. References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.74 Cc: "freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org" , "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 02 Sep 2014 14:42:54 -0000 On 9/2/2014 10:29 AM, atar wrote: > > I've a ZTE USB modem and I want to use it with FreeBSD. I've attached it to one of the USB slots on my PC and run the "ls -lh /dev/" command to see what's going on. I've saw that two modem devices have been created in the 'dialup' group: cuau0 and cuau1. > > My question is why were two devices nodes created instead of one and how should I know which of them I need to use? Typically, they will show up as /dev/cuaUx or /dev/cuaUx.x (note the capital U). Make sure you have the u3g driver loaded as well. (kldload u3g). Also, some ZTE sticks need to be put in "modem mode". This can often be done by sending the eject command to its "cdrom" if its listed as pass0, try the command camcontrol eject pass0 ---Mike -- ------------------- Mike Tancsa, tel +1 519 651 3400 Sentex Communications, mike@sentex.net Providing Internet services since 1994 www.sentex.net Cambridge, Ontario Canada http://www.tancsa.com/