RaspberryPi 2 with Huawei E398

[Aleksander Morgado]

On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 10:58 PM, Thomas Schäfer <tschaefer at t-online.de> wrote:
>> My first impression of the rpi, it should work there. I have had problems
>> with some unwanted network daemons. For testing I prefer to do step by step
>> manually. This is hard in time of systemd and dbus and thousand different
>> network-configs, every distribution is different.
>
>
> I made a test at rpi2  with opensuse Tumbleweed image.
>
> There are all versions of usb_modeswitch, qmi, modemmanager suitable.
>
> There are only two lines for connect:
>
> mmcli -m 0 --simple-connect="apn=internet.telekom,ip-type=ipv4" --verbose
>
> dhcpcd wwan0
>
> and two for disconnect:
>
> dhcpcd -x wwan0
>
> mmcli -m 0 --simple-disconnect
>
>
> I downloaded 300MB (400 packages) to test the connection.
> It was stable. So I think rpi 2 architecture/hardware works with E398 well.
>
> The problems(solutions) are based on images/distributions.

Did you have to use the external powered hub? Or did the RPi2 give you
enough power in the USB port?

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Aleksander
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