OpenWRT Firmware -Dec. 08

Maric117 · EVDO Fledgling Joined: 08 Jan 2009 Posts: 16

Ok so I skimmed throuogh the 40 page post and felt confident re-flashing my router... Heres my problem, Ive set everything to conect to sprint as described but when I hit the button on the router the blue light just flashes forever and it never conects... oh Im using a 597e modem btw. What did I do wrong?

Maric117 · EVDO Fledgling Joined: 08 Jan 2009 Posts: 16

heres the error log:

ifconfig: ppp0: error fetching interface information: Device not found ifconfig: ppp0: error fetching interface information: Device not found ifconfig: ppp0: error fetching interface information: Device not found

(none) user.notice root: pppd version 2.4.3
Dec 31 19:46:42 (none) user.notice root: pppd version 2.4.3
Dec 31 19:46:42 (none) user.notice root: Usage: /usr/sbin/pppd [ options ], where options are:
Dec 31 19:46:42 (none) user.notice root: Usage: /usr/sbin/pppd [ options ], where options are:
Dec 31 19:46:42 (none) user.notice root: Usage: /usr/sbin/pppd [ options ], where options are:
Dec 31 19:46:42 (none) user.notice root: Usage: /usr/sbin/pppd [ options ], where options are:
Dec 31 19:46:42 (none) user.notice root: See pppd( Cool

for more options.
Dec 31 19:46:42 (none) user.notice root: See pppd( Cool

for more options.
Dec 31 19:46:42 (none) user.notice root: /usr/sbin/pppd: unrecognized option '/dev/usb/tts/0'
Dec 31 19:46:42 (none) user.notice root: /usr/sbin/pppd: unrecognized option '/dev/usb/tts/0'
Dec 31 19:46:42 (none) user.notice root: /usr/sbin/pppd: unrecognized option '/dev/usb/tts/0'
Dec 31 19:46:42 (none) user.notice root: /usr/sbin/pppd: unrecognized option '/dev/usb/tts/0'
Dec 31 19:46:42 (none) user.notice ifup.3g: connection failed, resetting 3G card..
Dec 31 19:46:42 (none) kern.err pppd[16822]: unrecognized option '/dev/usb/tts/0'
Dec 31 19:46:42 (none) kern.err pppd[16813]: unrecognized option '/dev/usb/tts/0'
Dec 31 19:46:42 (none) kern.err pppd[16808]: unrecognized option '/dev/usb/tts/0'
Dec 31 19:46:42 (none) kern.err pppd[16803]: unrecognized option '/dev/usb/tts/0'
Dec 31 19:46:30 (none) user.notice ifup.3g: connection failed, resetting 3G card..
Dec 31 19:46:29 (none) user.notice root: pppd version 2.4.3
Dec 31 19:46:29 (none) user.notice root: pppd version 2.4.3
Dec 31 19:46:29 (none) user.notice root: pppd version 2.4.3
Dec 31 19:46:29 (none) user.notice root: pppd version 2.4.3
Dec 31 19:46:29 (none) user.notice root: Usage: /usr/sbin/pppd [ options ], where options are:
Dec 31 19:46:29 (none) user.notice root: Usage: /usr/sbin/pppd [ options ], where options are:
Dec 31 19:46:29 (none) user.notice root: Usage: /usr/sbin/pppd [ options ], where options are:
Dec 31 19:46:29 (none) user.notice root: Usage: /usr/sbin/pppd [ options ], where options are:
Dec 31 19:46:29 (none) user.notice root: See pppd( Cool

for more options.
Dec 31 19:46:29 (none) user.notice root: See pppd( Cool

for more options.
Dec 31 19:46:29 (none) user.notice root: /usr/sbin/pppd: unrecognized option '/dev/usb/tts/0'
Dec 31 19:46:29 (none) user.notice root: /usr/sbin/pppd: unrecognized option '/dev/usb/tts/0'
Dec 31 19:46:29 (none) user.notice root: /usr/sbin/pppd: unrecognized option '/dev/usb/tts/0'
Dec 31 19:46:29 (none) user.notice root: /usr/sbin/pppd: unrecognized option '/dev/usb/tts/0'
Dec 31 19:46:29 (none) kern.err pppd[16679]: unrecognized option '/dev/usb/tts/0'
Dec 31 19:46:29 (none) kern.err pppd[16675]: unrecognized option '/dev/usb/tts/0'
Dec 31 19:46:29 (none) kern.err pppd[16671]: unrecognized option '/dev/usb/tts/0'
Dec 31 19:46:29 (none) kern.err pppd[16667]: unrecognized option '/dev/usb/tts/0'
Dec 31 19:46:17 (none) user.notice root: See pppd( Cool

for more options.
Dec 31 19:46:17 (none) user.notice ifup.3g: connection failed, resetting 3G card..

Maric117 · EVDO Fledgling Joined: 08 Jan 2009 Posts: 16

Fawke me... I think I bricked the router... Does anyone still have the linksys 2.0.9 in trx format? evdo wizzards old link is bad...

jons121301 · EVDO Newbie Joined: 09 Jan 2009 Posts: 1

I have flashed my WRTG3G-ST with the Firmware listed at the beginning of this topic and followed the instructions. So far I have not been able to get the Pantech PX 500 to connect since.
I need some help. I am willing to go thru the process and keep openwrt and whatever GUI I ended up with however; if I can't get theis to work I will have to find a way to get the old firmware back on the Router.
I have read thru quite a bit of the info here but cannot seem to get this flash to work.
I would really appreciate some help with this, It is driving me crazy.

BlastedBill · EVDO Newbie Joined: 21 Feb 2009 Posts: 1

Hey all,
I get my evdo card from my work. They originally gave me a pantech 500 and i got the wrt54g3g-st v1 for it. I don't think the v2 was even out when i bought it. The pantech went dead last week and they gave me a sierra compass 597 USB to replace it. I really didn't want to spend another $150 on a new router and thought I'd try openwrt. I read through this entire thread and a many more. I installed...

10_Xopenwrt-54g3g-v82squashfs.trx

I put in my old pcmcia usb card and it recognized it just fine. So now the wrt54g3g has usb ports. When i put in the 597, it creates an error saying it's missing the file sierra.o. I see there's a sierra wireless package for another branch, but couldn't find an image it went with. I'm not nearly skilled enough to make my own image. Poking around the forms, i find many barely understandable and confusing mentions of the sierra.o but nothing i could figure out or use. I found this mentioned somewhere...

sierrawireless.com/faq/ShowFAQ.aspx?ID=601

So theroratically, i just have to make the driver for the card and all would be good. I see TONS of mentions of openwrt how to's talking about doing makes, but for the life of me, i can not get it to run on my install. 1st off, none of the images i found, even non evdo one's, did not have make installed. if found a make package on a third party site, but when i tried to run it it kept saying ...

o2bad455 · EVDO Newbie Joined: 31 Jan 2008 Posts: 9

Hi, I've been using OpenWRT on my WRT54G3G with a Sierra Wireless AC595 card for quite a while now. I think the OpenWRT release is the r82, although the firmware line shows just a "-" in system information. It's quite stable -- Good Work! Smile

I've had it running non-stop for months. I only have to hit the WWAN button to reconnect the card once in a great while. Once loaded, I was very pleasantly surprised how stable it is versus some of the other custom router firmwares I've tried (e.g., Sveasoft).

Two questions:

1) I have never been able to utilize OpenDNS servers. When I click yes from Network/WAN-LAN menu, followed by save changes, the change does not save so there are no changes to apply. Any suggestions?

2) Any way to add (or adjust) a jitter filter?

Thanks!

itb44 · EVDO User Joined: 31 Jan 2008 Posts: 50

A) I had my WRT54G3G with openwrt r82 working fine with EVDO/CDMA (Verizon), but then tried to switch to an HSPA/GSM (AT&T) card. I did not get that to work, and now can't even get the old card to work anymore. I'm getting this error for mobile network status, and the blue wrt light never goes solid (just keeps blinking):

ifconfig: ppp0: error fetching interface information: Device not found ifconfig: ppp0: error fetching interface information: Device not found ifconfig: ppp0: error fetching interface information: Device not found

What might be the problem, and what could I do to get my old card working again? I have already tried reflashing back to stock and then back to openwrt, but still the same symptom.

B) Completely different issue, but has anyone had success using a particular pcmcia to usb card with a usb modem or tethered cell plugged into that?
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AC595, WRT54G3G

itb44 · EVDO User Joined: 31 Jan 2008 Posts: 50

Issue A (above) SOLVED -- this issue turned out to be a problem with some NVRAM values not really getting reset when switching between GSM and CDMA devices, surprisingly not even cleared via reflash, but can be fixed by choosing manual instead of a particular carrier to reset values for both GSM and CDMA types, and then changing to correct carrier.
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AC595, WRT54G3G

itb44 · EVDO User Joined: 31 Jan 2008 Posts: 50

evdojihad · EVDO Newbie Joined: 09 Aug 2009 Posts: 1

Hi everyone

I have the linksys wrt54g3g flashed to the white russian firmware

I am using a PC5750

My ISP requires that I enable PAP only, "unencrypted password" for auth-type. This no problem on a xp computer, I just edit the settings in its DUN profile..

Buth with this firmware I assume I have modify a NV file somewhere?

Can some please help me!

cheater99 · EVDO Newbie Joined: 10 Aug 2009 Posts: 1

Ok, just installed and router doesn't want to connect...

First i installed r75 then upgraded to r82 but the info.sh page on that is broken so i went back to r75. I understand that Option cards are controlled via the comgt package but mine doesn't seem to want to work (network is t-mobile uk and card is an Option GT Max). The comgt package in this build of openwrt is 0.3.1, but 0.32.1 is available, should i update comgt? How do i access the error log?

Maybe i have some of the details wrong..

User: user
Pw: wap
APN: general.t-mobile.uk
Dialup No.: No idea, tried with and without *99***1# (because all the others had this
Pin: n/a

Set to GSM not CDMA but the option card does say CDMA on the back but has a sim slot, so i'm not sure although on the default linksys firmware i dont have to fill out any APN or user/pw, it does it all automatically (using -EM firmware).

EDIT: CDMA doesn't work either, but using cardctl status in ssh gives no errors and says there's something there.

Can anyone help?

fsubartender · EVDO Newbie Joined: 06 Sep 2009 Posts: 4

I am new to the forum.

I have a WRT54g3gV2-ST with a Sprint Sierra Wireless Compass 597.

What version of open WRT do I need?

Thank for you help.