(Maybe this is the wrong forum part but ehhh.)
I have a ALIX 6E2 board and a Sierra MC7710 4g modem and I've tried to get them to work together, I've tried out pfsense (I tried following the guide on http://technotation.com/) and ipcop but haven't got it to work in either of them. So I wonder if there might be any other OS with better support for 3g/4g modems or if there are any information that could be relevant to get it to work. I would really appreciate any information you might have.
Those instructions for pfSense should work a treat. What was your problem? Did the device not get detected as a serial port? Or were you having difficulty configuring the connection?
It was some time ago I tried it but as I remember I was never able to successfully rebuild pfSense with the added support for my card, mostly because it seemed like the guide were written for a older version of pfSense, I never found the sources that the guide were referring to.
But I'm open for giving it another try.
I could probably even build an image for you if you struggle again beyond help. But I won't just do it for you without you trying again yourself first ;)
Oh! That's really cool of you! But yeah, I'm totally going to give it another try.
I bought the stuff because I knew it would be a challenge for me to make it work and I really like that it's challenging and I think it will be a really good learning experience for me to experiment more with it. It kinda gave me more hope that you think it's possible do in the way that I first intended to do it.
I'll probably try to keep this thread updated with the progress I'm making and if I run into any particular problems.
Sooo, I've been following the guide. One of the links were dead so I looked it up on wayback machine, it says the instructions are usupported. I installed FreeBSD 8.3 and everything went well until:
cd /usr/ports/textproc/expat2 && make depends install
The portsnap-thingie before that line ran without any errors but after that I get a error something like "make - fatal errors encountered" some lines over it said "unclosed conditional/for loop". Is it something I've done wrong or due to the instructions being outdated? I tried to google it but I couldn't find anything.
I'll take a look I guess. Do any of the ports install for you or is it just that one screwing up?
No. Everyone of them have similar errors.
Ahdang it. Did a more specific search now and it seem that the port-tree-thingie doesn't have support for FreeBSD 8.3 anymore.
"Note that this makes the ports tree incompatible with make(1) from FreeBSD 8.3 or earlier"
I think you should be able to use svn and check out a revision of the ports tree from before that change in that case.
Oh, sweet! I'll go ahead and experiment with this svn-thingie! Found a thick pdf that I think will explain it all to me! Thanks for the hint! <3
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/ports-using.html
http://svn.freebsd.org/ports/tags/RELEASE_8_3_0/
more hints for you ;)
I think the trick might be how to get subversion installed in the first place...
Hmm. So, I tried to install subversion with "pkg_add -rv subversion" and when it had run "pkg_version" listed it. But the svn commad only returns "svn: Command not found." errors. I'm trying to search for an explanation as to why it does that. But I think I know how to proceed when I get subversion running.
I'm not sure if you just need to `rehash' or add /usr/local/bin to $PATH maybe? It should be /usr/local/bin/svn. If you don't see it there, something must have gone wrong when installing the package.
Ohh. Simply typing rehash seemed to work. Thanks!