Good day! I'm trying to run the Fibocom L860-GL LTE modem on FreeBSD 14.1. This modem can work in CDC NCM mode. There is a script on the Internet that one good person wrote for this modem using PowerShell under Win and shared it. The essence of the script is quite simple: first, the modem is configured with a bunch of AT commands, IP settings are requested from the operator, then, according to them, the network interface and route are configured. I reproduced the essence of the script, but the connection does not work under FreeBSD. I tried the following steps in my system:
1. We configure the modem through its console:
Here we got the modem connection on its CDC NCM interface. There we also requested $IP, $MASK, $GW
2. We configure the network interface:
3. Set up the route:
4. Checking what happenning. Now pings goes only to the $IP of the interface itself, and with some random delays. Other hosts are not available.
5. What I'm doing wrong? Please help.
PS: To check the functionality of the hardware, I used the following options: 1) Win10 with the original PowerShell script for setting up the modem as CDC NCM device; 2) ppp in FreeBSD for setting up the modem on its cuaU interface. Both options work. But I would like to have CDC NCM connection in FreeBSD. But how?
1. We configure the modem through its console:
> picocom /dev/cuaU2
Code:
[a number of AT commands skipped here]
AT+CGDATA=M-RAW_IP,1OKCONNECTHere we got the modem connection on its CDC NCM interface. There we also requested $IP, $MASK, $GW
2. We configure the network interface:
> ifconfig ue0 inet $IP netmask $MASK> ifconfig ue0
Code:
ue0: flags=1008843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST,LOWER_UP> metric 0 mtu 1500
options=80000<LINKSTATE>
ether 00:00:11:12:13:14
inet 10.22.114.24 netmask 0xff000000 broadcast 10.255.255.255
media: Ethernet autoselect
status: active
nd6 options=29<PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>3. Set up the route:
> route add default $GW> netstat -r4Routing tables
Code:
Internet:
Destination Gateway Flags Netif Expire
default 10.22.114.25 UGS ue0
10.0.0.0/8 link#4 U ue0
10.22.114.24 link#3 UHS lo0
localhost link#3 UH lo04. Checking what happenning. Now pings goes only to the $IP of the interface itself, and with some random delays. Other hosts are not available.
5. What I'm doing wrong? Please help.
PS: To check the functionality of the hardware, I used the following options: 1) Win10 with the original PowerShell script for setting up the modem as CDC NCM device; 2) ppp in FreeBSD for setting up the modem on its cuaU interface. Both options work. But I would like to have CDC NCM connection in FreeBSD. But how?
