Connecting to 3G USB Modem on DragonFlyBSD?

Rama octo.nebula at gmail.com
Wed Oct 23 21:49:37 PDT 2013


Hi,

I booted DragonflyBSD (the latest IA32 usb bootable image), but I'm
having trouble connecting to the world wide web.

I have a ZTE Corporation K3800 3G USB Modem which I use on linux for
internet. I'm not sure what to do to connect to this modem?

I'm not sure which thing on /dev is the modem device? When I run
"dmesg | grep ZTE" I get about 4-5 lines, which say something like:
"pass9: ZTE MMC Storage Technology.... 40.00 Mb/s" e
"cd8: ZTE MMC Storage Technology.... 40.00 Mb/s"
"sg8: ZTE MMC Storage Technology.... 40.00 Mb/s"
"da8: ZTE MMC Storage Technology 40.00 Mb/s".

That's not the exact output, I just wrote what I can recall right now.
So, I have no idea which is which to be honest.

If it is any help, back when I was trying OpenBSD (few months back)
doing something like dhclient /dev/caCU0 used to magically work... I'm
using linux now so I forgot how I discovered the cryptic /dev/caCU0.
FreeBSD was similar, except that I remember the device name was
different. I will say that dhclient /dev/sg8|da8|cd8|pass9 doesn't
work on DF BSD.

I'm guessing something similar should work on DragonFlyBSD? I added
ucom_load=yes to loader.conf but that didn't seem to help. I couldn't
find u3g on DF? Any ideas if u3g exists on DragonFly?

Can anyone help me with getting my modem to work? Pretty please? I'm a
complete novice here

Following is dmesg | grep ZTE on my linux:
[   10.619651] usb 5-3: Product: ZTE WCDMA Technologies MSM
[   10.619658] usb 5-3: Manufacturer: ZTE,Incorporated
[   10.619665] usb 5-3: SerialNumber: MF6560ZTED010000
[   11.665157] scsi 2:0:0:1: Direct-Access     ZTE      MMC Storage
  2.31 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2

Here is ifconfig ppp0 on my linux when the device is connected and active:
ppp0      Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol
          inet addr:10.210.37.212  P-t-P:10.64.64.64  Mask:255.255.255.255
          UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:4995 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:5267 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:3
          RX bytes:3288493 (3.1 MiB)  TX bytes:720544 (703.6 KiB)


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