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Big Twin
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Location: Northern Michigan
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| Thanks again, Karlyn. It was taking forever for the WRT54G3G-ST to recognize the Alltel PC5750. I moved the router 10' away from the three puters, monitors, and the tangle of wires and placed it in a bookshelf snuggled in with some books. It seems to like its new home because it finds the card immediatly. Keep us posted on the Openwrt firmware, scoob28. |
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karlyn
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Joined: 02 Apr 2007
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Location: Lynchburg, VA
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| Posted: Fri Sep 14, 2007 6:03 am Post subject: |
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| scoob28 wrote: | | I just wanted to update this thread and let everyone know I was able to connect with my WRT54G3G-ST and Alltel PC5750. I am using the Openwrt firmware by evdo-wizard. |
Thanks for the update, scoob! I'm still baffled as to why you couldn't get it to work with the 2.00.9 firmware. Once work slows down a little I'm looking forward to trying the OpenWRT firmware. Do you have VPN working with it? |
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karlyn
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Joined: 02 Apr 2007
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Location: Lynchburg, VA
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| Posted: Fri Sep 14, 2007 6:10 am Post subject: |
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| Big Twin wrote: | | Thanks again, Karlyn. It was taking forever for the WRT54G3G-ST to recognize the Alltel PC5750. I moved the router 10' away from the three puters, monitors, and the tangle of wires and placed it in a bookshelf snuggled in with some books. It seems to like its new home because it finds the card immediately. Keep us posted on the Openwrt firmware, scoob28. |
You're welcome, Big Twin! Just a little interference there, huh?!  You'd posted pretty decent downloads using a tethered E815 phone -- are you seeing even better downloads with the aircard? |
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Big Twin
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Joined: 31 Jul 2007
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Location: Northern Michigan
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| Posted: Fri Sep 14, 2007 8:38 am Post subject: |
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Karlyn, The tethered phone is a great way to go and is a lot of bang for the buck. The data package can be turned on or off as needed or can can be used without cost on a weekend/night free package. Calls can still be received while tethered and reconnects easily. I had mine plugged into a Wilson trucker antenna hanging out the window and wired tethered so cords became a problem. I noticed slightly better results with the PC7550 (same antenna) and have noticed no difference with adding the WRT54G3G-ST. When I throw three computers at it, I noticed diminished speeds.  I really have not noticed much difference with any of the hookups although the speeds have been varying. EVDO (Rev 0) is new to this area so that probably accounts for some the speed differences, as well as the weather conditions. |
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scoob28
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Joined: 07 Sep 2007
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Location: Wisconsin
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| Posted: Sat Sep 15, 2007 2:05 pm Post subject: |
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| The biggest thing I was concerned with was being able to VPN out to my work. That's works great with the Openwrt firmware. The local wireless also works great. I would recommend OpenWRT to anyone. |
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swright_47
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Joined: 01 Oct 2007
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Location: west texas
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| scoob28 wrote: | I have had my PC5750 through Alltel for about 2 weeks and it works great with my laptop. I really need to have a router so I bought the Kyocera Kr1. It connected great through my PC5750 but I encountered the problem with the local wifi resetting my PC5750. Still no big deal as I was willing to connect another access point to the KR1. What was the deal breaker was the fact that I was unable to VPN through the KR1 so I returned it and bought a WRT54G3G-ST.
I cannot get my PC5750 to connect in the WRT54G3G-ST. With firmware 2.00.9 it tries to connect and finally fails saying "unable to contact the mobile broadband server". I get the same results with the Linksys beta firmware.
I'm hoping someone can help me! Thanks! |
scoob28, I have the same setup as you (PC5750 - Alltel). Can you tell me if you have it working yet, and what you did to get it working?
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scoob28
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Location: Wisconsin
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| Posted: Mon Oct 01, 2007 1:22 pm Post subject: |
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| scoob28 wrote: | I just wanted to update this thread and let everyone know I was able to connect with my WRT54G3G-ST and Alltel PC5750. I am using the Openwrt firmware by evdo-wizard. I posted over on that thread and alphastar told me to edit the /etc/ppp/chap-secrets file to look like below and it connected perfectly.
#USERNAME PROVIDER PASSWORD IPADDRESS
"*" * "*" |
@swright_47
Above is my post from earlier in this thread. Check out the thread, OpenWRT Firmware for WRT54G3G- New Aug. 25th, which is a sticky thread at the top of this forum. I downloaded r75 of the OpenWRT firmware from assembla.com/spaces/files/openwrt-3g. I then had to edit the chap-secrets file to look like the entry above.
I could not get it to work with the linksys 2.00.9 firmware. |
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swright_47
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Location: west texas
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Thanks scoob28, download R75,install it but I'm not clear on editing the file /etc/ppp/chap-secrets with the
#USERNAME PROVIDER PASSWORD IPADDRESS
"*" * "*"
mine already has this code
Still not working |
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scoob28
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Location: Wisconsin
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Here are my settings from the network page. See if they match.
WAN Configuration
Connection Type - None
WWAN Configuration
Connection Type - 3G Data Card
WWAN Connection Settings
Connection Mode - Connect manually
Utilize Keepalive - Yes
WWAN Network Settings
Network - US Alltel
Network Type - CDMA Based
Username - blank
Password - blank
Dialup Number - #777
OpenDNS Service
Utilize OpenDNS - No
LAN Configuration
IP Address - 192.168.1.1
Netmask - 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway- 192.168.1.1
Remember to first save changes then apply changes
If matching mine doesn't work you should post your connection log found under status, mobile network to the OpenWRT Firmware for WRT54G3G- New Aug. 25th thread. There are people in that thread that know OpenWRT inside and out.
Good Luck. |
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swright_47
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Joined: 01 Oct 2007
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Location: west texas
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| Posted: Tue Oct 02, 2007 12:39 pm Post subject: alltell - PC5750 |
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My ISP is Alltel, data card is the UTstarcom PC5750. I have copied my setting to match.Here are my settings from the network page. Blue data-card led just blinks, never connects.
WAN Configuration
Connection Type - None
WWAN Configuration
Connection Type - 3G Data Card
WWAN Connection Settings
Connection Mode - Connect manually
Utilize Keepalive - Yes
WWAN Network Settings
Network - US Alltel
Network Type - CDMA Based
Username - blank
Password - blank
Dialup Number - #777
OpenDNS Service
Utilize OpenDNS - No
LAN Configuration
IP Address - 192.168.1.1
Netmask - 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway- 192.168.1.1
connection log:
Jan 1 00:12:12 (none) user.notice ifup.3g: connection failed, resetting 3G card..
Jan 1 00:12:12 (none) kern.notice pppd[5275]: pppd 2.4.3 started by root, uid 0
Jan 1 00:12:12 (none) kern.notice pppd[5271]: pppd 2.4.3 started by root, uid 0
Jan 1 00:12:12 (none) kern.notice pppd[5267]: pppd 2.4.3 started by root, uid 0
Jan 1 00:12:12 (none) kern.notice pppd[5263]: pppd 2.4.3 started by root, uid 0
Jan 1 00:12:12 (none) kern.info pppd[5275]: Exit.
Jan 1 00:12:12 (none) kern.info pppd[5271]: Exit.
Jan 1 00:12:12 (none) kern.info pppd[5267]: Exit.
Jan 1 00:12:12 (none) kern.info pppd[5263]: Exit.
Jan 1 00:12:12 (none) kern.err pppd[5275]: Failed to open /dev/usb/tts/0: Invalid argument
Jan 1 00:12:12 (none) kern.err pppd[5271]: Failed to open /dev/usb/tts/0: Invalid argument
Jan 1 00:12:12 (none) kern.err pppd[5267]: Failed to open /dev/usb/tts/0: Invalid argument
Jan 1 00:12:12 (none) kern.err pppd[5263]: Failed to open /dev/usb/tts/0: Invalid argument
Jan 1 00:12:01 (none) user.notice ifup.3g: connection failed, resetting 3G card..
any ideas whats wrong? (I downloaded 7_openwrt-3g-r75-wrt54g3g-st-squashfs.bin)
Thanks
Stacy |
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scoob28
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Joined: 07 Sep 2007
Posts: 15
Location: Wisconsin
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| Posted: Tue Oct 02, 2007 12:57 pm Post subject: |
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| I didn't think of this earlier but have you activated the card in a laptop before using it in the router? It has to be activated first using the alltel software. If you've already activated it, post what you just posted to this thread, http://www.evdoforums.com/thread6621.html. The people in that thread are more knowledgeable with the config files than I am. |
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swright_47
EVDO Newbie
Joined: 01 Oct 2007
Posts: 7
Location: west texas
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| Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2007 10:14 am Post subject: alltel pc5750 |
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Hey scoob28, I finally got it working! posted my problem on the other topic (new aug. 25) but never got a response from the guru's. But I keep trying different things and finally got it to work. Here are my settings:
WAN Configuration
Connection Type - DHCP
WWAN Configuration
Connection Type - 3G Data Card
WWAN Connection Settings
Connection Mode - Allways connected
Utilize Keepalive - Yes
WWAN Network Settings
Network - M A N U A L <------------
Network Type - CDMA Based
Username - blank
Password - blank
Dialup Number - #777
OpenDNS Service
Utilize OpenDNS - No
LAN Configuration
IP Address - 192.168.1.1
Netmask - 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway- 192.168.1.1
8_openwrt-3g-r75-brcm-2[1].4-squashfs.trx
Thanks again on getting me pointed in the right direction
Stacy
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scoob28
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Location: Wisconsin
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| Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2007 10:21 am Post subject: |
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| Stacy, that's great to hear! |
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n8evdo
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Joined: 03 Oct 2007
Posts: 22
Location: West Michigan
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| Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2007 10:36 am Post subject: |
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| Anyone figure out a way to have the router reset itself after Alltel nukes the connection at 12hrs? |
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soup006
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Joined: 22 Sep 2007
Posts: 21
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| Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2007 1:02 pm Post subject: |
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Does the Linksys wrt54g3g-st work with the Verizon PC5750? I realize it's basically the same as the Alltell PC5750 but just want to make sure.
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