[Freedombox-discuss] Setting up a FreedomBox on an apu1d4. Usb device (phone/modem) not seen by plinth.
On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 11:58:18PM -0400, A. F. Cano wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 11:41:37PM +0530, Sunil Mohan Adapa wrote:
> > ...
> > 2) When you connect a USB tethered phone it will show us as an Ethernet
> > device. Which you can configure as 'external' connection in Plinth. If
>
Earlier I said:
> Mmm... No such luck. The only interfaces visible to plinth are the 3
> usual ones: one internal connected to the internal network (enp3s0),
> one internal not connected (enp2s0) and the WAM interface connected to
> the ubiquiti router. More below.
After more more trial and error, I got a little further.
I can get the ppp connection started:
$ /sbin/route
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
default 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 ppp0
80.sub-66-174-1 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0 0 ppp0
192.168.200.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 100 0 0 enp3s0
I can do apt updates/upgrades from the command line (via ssh)
$ sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade # this works
This is with the tethered phone connected directly to the freedombox'x
usb port, not via a proxy on another local machine like I described
earlier.
Per the online manual in the wiki, I tried to make the network manager
aware of the new connection:
$ sudo nmcli con add con-name "ppp" ifname "ppp0" type cdma
$ sudo nmcli con modify "ppp" connection.zone external
and the "Networks" page presented by plinth now has the "ppp" connection
listed, but it's inactive. Clicking the "Activate" button has no
effect. It says "Activated connection ppp" but the button never turns
green. Tried this before and after deactivating the "Freedombox WAN"
interface, in case there is a limitation of only one external interface.
After de-activating the Freedombox WAN interface:
$ nmcli connection
NAME UUID TYPE DEVICE
FreedomBox LAN enp3s0 a8e95667-240c-48bb-98be-0ee4a97c1fc2 802-3-ethernet enp3s0
FreedomBox LAN enp2s0 a7aaf4a1-a558-4cac-9f9e-a7a078492efb 802-3-ethernet --
FreedomBox WAN 51461052-3d5d-4261-8b49-727dd11b6c6b 802-3-ethernet --
ppp f2cc6f30-1726-42c2-b580-3ac8a98a21ec cdma --
$ nmcli device
DEVICE TYPE STATE CONNECTION
enp3s0 ethernet connected FreedomBox LAN enp3s0
ttyACM0 cdma disconnected --
enp1s0 ethernet disconnected --
enp2s0 ethernet unavailable --
lo loopback unmanaged --
ppp0 unknown unmanaged --
Looks like I have some confusion as to what the network manager uses to
identify what it deals with. Why are both ttyACM0 and ppp0 listed under
"DEVICE"? Is there a way to associate "ttyACM0" with ppp0 under nmcli?
Is this necessary?
No surprise then that anything else is not working from the web
interface.
> > your phone only provides PPP, you will have configure that from 'nmtui'
> > from command line (Plinth does not do PPP connections yet)
Even with the ppp connection up and running, nmtui only sees the 3
ethernet connections.
> ...
Any ideas out there?
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