I am a pfSense fan and have Sierra MC7700 and Atheros Mifi embedded builds in a couple of headless vehicle Intel PC's. So I am familiar with embedded gear and I am learning with FreeBSD on the Beaglebone Black.
So due to a single USB port I used a USB hub with MC7700 on a USB to MiniPCIe adapter and a USB Wifi stick, the RaLink 5592 as a software access point, But I wanted to achieve one last thing:
GPS: The Sierra MC7700 provides NMEA0183 on an cuaU interface.
Here is the what it takes:
Install astro/gpsd package
Prep modem from terminal program:
Now Exit from cu with shift + ~ then dot key
Reboot and run these commands
Tested as working with cgps and xgps-- astro/gpsd provided GPS clients
So due to a single USB port I used a USB hub with MC7700 on a USB to MiniPCIe adapter and a USB Wifi stick, the RaLink 5592 as a software access point, But I wanted to achieve one last thing:
GPS: The Sierra MC7700 provides NMEA0183 on an cuaU interface.
Here is the what it takes:
Install astro/gpsd package
Prep modem from terminal program:
cu -l /dev/cuaU0.3
at
atz
AT!ENTERCND="A710"
AT!CUSTOM="GPSENABLE",4
Now Exit from cu with shift + ~ then dot key
Reboot and run these commands
stty -f /dev/cuaU0.2 raw; echo \$GPS_START >/dev/cuaU0.2
gpsd -n /dev/cuaU0.2
Tested as working with cgps and xgps-- astro/gpsd provided GPS clients
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