TomatoUSB

Hello,

I've been trying to set up tomato on my asus WL-500gP with limited successful results.

Everything works with the exception of my USB modem. The modem is a clearspot 4g from Clear. The device works as an RNDIS device on Windows / Linux / MacOS. I can get the device to be recognized with mii.ko, usbnet.ko, cdc_ether.ko and rndis_host.ko. After that, I'm not sure how to get the modem to assign an IP address to the router and have the router distribute internet to all my other devices.

This is just a "for fun" exercise as I can get internet through the wifi interface of the clearspot. I've read about this being done on dd-wrt and a little on openwrt. I want to get it to work on tomato as tomato seems to be the most "complete" solution of all the custom router firmwares.

Please help me out.

Thanks!

Gang!

I just made some progress. I think the only thing I need help with now is the routing. I can get devices to connect through the clearspot to the internet, but only through manual configurations.

The magic line is:

brctl addif br0 usb0

I then have to manually configure my IP address info to match the clearspot 4g and I can get on the internet.

Any hints on how to assign my WAN to connect through the clearspot?

Thanks!

Change your default route to interface usb0.

Rodney

Alright, I finally got it.

I had to get an IP address from the clearspot using udhcpc, then use iptables to masquerade.

Now just to make it all permanent. Any hints on that?

Thanks!

Well, I'm guessing WAN Up wouldn't be a good place ;)

Best I can suggest is to do it in Init, looping to make sure the device is mounted and available and then bring the connection up. It won't auto-reconnect, but that could be solved through very clever scripting (basically spawn a looped subshell that will reconnect whenever the connection drops).

Rodney

Does anyone have any more info on this. I've insmod'd the same drivers as above, but I never get a usb0 from any of my android phones, like I do on a standard linux box.

This is what I get:

Forum thinks I'm trying to post URLs and is disallowing me. Trying to pass the log;

<timestamp> unknown user <dot> info kernel; usb 1-1; new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 6

ok, think I got it. This is a serious problem if on a tech forum you can't post a /var/log/messages excerpt. Anyway:

Forum thinks I'm trying to post URLs and is disallowing me<dot> Trying to pass the log;

<timestamp> unknown user<dot>info kernel; usb 1-1; new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 6
<timestamp> unknown user<dot>info kernel; usb 1-1; configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
<timestamp> unknown user<dot>debug hotplug[576]; Attached USB device 1-1;1<dot>1 [INTERFACE=255\66\1 PRODUCT=bb4\c02\227]
<timestamp> unknown user<dot>debug hotplug[575]; Attached USB device 1-1;1<dot>0 [INTERFACE=8\6\80 PRODUCT=bb4\c02\227]
<timestamp> unknown user<dot>info kernel; usb 1-1; USB disconnect, address 6

[press the 'tether over usb' button on android phone]

<timestamp> unknown user<dot>info kernel; usb 1-1; new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 7
<timestamp> unknown user<dot>info kernel; usb 1-1; configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
<timestamp> unknown user<dot>debug hotplug[588]; Attached USB device 1-1;1<dot>0 [INTERFACE=224\1\3 PRODUCT=bb4\ffc\227]
<timestamp> unknown user<dot>debug hotplug[591]; Attached USB device 1-1;1<dot>1 [INTERFACE=10\0\0 PRODUCT=bb4\ffc\227]
<timestamp> unknown user<dot>debug hotplug[595]; Attached USB device 1-1;1<dot>2 [INTERFACE=255\66\1 PRODUCT=bb4\ffc\227]

I'm having the same issue as Scribe: My Galaxy Nexus (CM9) works on my laptop, but doesn't on my RT-N16:
(Connect)
usb 1-1: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 1
usb 1-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
(Enable USB tethering)
usb 1-1: USB disconnect, address 1
usb 1-1: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2
usb 1-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
==END LOG==

But my old HTC Incredible (CM7) works (I don't have a subscription for it though):
(Connect)
usb 1-1: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 1
usb 1-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
scsi2 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
scsi 2:0:0:0: Direct-Access HTC Incredible 0100 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2
sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI removable disk
scsi 2:0:0:1: Direct-Access HTC Incredible 0100 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2
sd 2:0:0:1: [sdc] Attached SCSI removable disk
scsi 2:0:0:2: Direct-Access HTC Incredible 0100 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2
sd 2:0:0:2: [sdd] Attached SCSI removable disk
(Enable USB tethering)
usb 1-1: USB disconnect, address 1
usb 1-1: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2
usb 1-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
usb0: register 'rndis_host' at usb-0000:00:04.1-1, RNDIS device, 32:b8:36:47:f6:c1
==END LOG==
(The above logs are from dmesg)

I tried forcing the driver(s) to recognize the vendor/product ID (In tether mode, 04e8:6863):
# echo 04e8 6863 > /sys/bus/usb/drivers/cdc_ether/new_id
# echo 04e8 6863 > /sys/bus/usb/drivers/rndis_host/new_id

But it didn't work, as it did the same thing when I plugged it back in.