From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 2 19:25:17 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 C3C5143C; Tue, 2 Sep 2014 19:25:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-we0-x22c.google.com (mail-we0-x22c.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:400c:c03::22c]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 379971899; Tue, 2 Sep 2014 19:25:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-we0-f172.google.com with SMTP id q59so7461234wes.17 for ; Tue, 02 Sep 2014 12:25:15 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=content-type:content-transfer-encoding:subject:references:from :in-reply-to:message-id:date:cc:to:mime-version; bh=fvwrvexPZbT3DSrnLLAQe91cQkcsqU64f5FprIGoC8s=; b=xezCTRzj29GtriMadM8It6bQiE11Zxo+WOLGE+phv7xcLTlrJYTLjwOhz/ChuJ0wTv HKVRDCbsbrvHuBnQIUdUeGK94/vqVZWBuLebOBpidSA79kSwR9xAgh0+PCi63g34cgce J+zmBWPMk8lxWpcRWibPZGi6L3/2YT91rBlcigkL8Lgcu/g81iQDK/pTlU5qQ4aAZ2l4 Y5cHiS5iPH7QXVt46qbSrowKNlqDO5b0UBHo+/ujTwBiMDui7J/oHspqPzGfAugQccWj yEhPJqi3B+31r6LJzJUQcvnpMcvllcVJykriEatDjFyBr/bXhKvnUUP0RlJ7ry5DoMrZ WM5g== X-Received: by 10.180.20.40 with SMTP id k8mr30997710wie.38.1409685915514; Tue, 02 Sep 2014 12:25:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [10.0.0.7] (bzq-79-182-135-11.red.bezeqint.net. [79.182.135.11]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id bt9sm11352534wjc.44.2014.09.02.12.25.13 for (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Tue, 02 Sep 2014 12:25:14 -0700 (PDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: Using a USB modem. References: <5405D76A.3060400@sentex.net> From: atar In-Reply-To: <5405D76A.3060400@sentex.net> Message-Id: Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2014 21:59:24 +0300 To: Mike Tancsa Mime-Version: 1.0 (1.0) X-Mailer: iPod Mail (10B500) 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 19:25:17 -0000 Thanks you for your kind support. > Typically, they will show up as /dev/cuaUx or /dev/cuaUx.x (note the capit= al U). That's interesting since in the output of 'ls -lh /dev' in my PC it appears w= ith no capital 'U'. In addition, I've tried to initialize the both devices with 'ppp' but when I= tried to enter the 'term' command, ppp hangs up and don't give me an option= to send to the modem commands. Any idea what's the problem? Regards, Atar. > On 9/2/2014 10:29 AM, atar wrote: >>=20 >> I've a ZTE USB modem and I want to use it with FreeBSD. I've attached it t= o one of the USB slots on my PC and run the "ls -lh /dev/" command to see wh= at's going on. I've saw that two modem devices have been created in the 'dia= lup' group: cuau0 and cuau1. >>=20 >> My question is why were two devices nodes created instead of one and how s= hould I know which of them I need to use? >=20 > Typically, they will show up as /dev/cuaUx or /dev/cuaUx.x (note the capit= al U). Make sure you have the u3g driver loaded as well. (kldload u3g). Al= so, some ZTE sticks need to be put in "modem mode". This can often be done b= y sending the eject command to its "cdrom" >=20 > if its listed as pass0, try the command > camcontrol eject pass0 >=20 > ---Mike >=20 >=20 >=20 > --=20 > ------------------- > 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/