{"id":1593,"date":"2022-01-04T15:57:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-04T15:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.qworqs.com\/?p=1593"},"modified":"2022-09-30T17:48:30","modified_gmt":"2022-09-30T17:48:30","slug":"openwrt-internet-via-usb-from-huawei-e5577-or-similar-devices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.voodoo.business\/blog\/2022\/01\/04\/openwrt-internet-via-usb-from-huawei-e5577-or-similar-devices\/","title":{"rendered":"Openwrt internet via USB from Huawei E5577 or similar devices"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>If you have a 3G\/4G USB dongle, which is not battery operated, just a USB stick, you might want to check out the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.qworqs.com\/2015\/03\/28\/huawei-dongle-on-openwrt-the-fast-and-easy-way\/\">instructions here<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The device I am using at the minute is the ZTE MF920U, I have also used a bunch of similar Huawei devices, they all work in exactly the same way<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Start by installing a few packaged, hopefully you are familiar with loggin in with SSH, if not, you can get those packages from within the software section of the luci interface<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\">opkg update &amp;&amp; opkg install kmod-usb-net-rndis kmod-usb-net kmod-usb2 usb-modeswitch kmod-usb-net-cdc-ether<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>Once those are installed, reboot, then login to luci<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Connect the 4G modem via USB, then Go to interfaces, then add a new interface, select the new eth device that appeared, give it a name, and you are all good to go<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you have a 3G\/4G USB dongle, which is not battery operated, just a USB stick, you might want to check out the instructions here The device I am using at the minute is the ZTE MF920U, I have also used a bunch of similar Huawei devices, they all work in exactly the same way [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-openwrt","category-routers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voodoo.business\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voodoo.business\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voodoo.business\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voodoo.business\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voodoo.business\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1593"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.voodoo.business\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1600,"href":"https:\/\/www.voodoo.business\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1593\/revisions\/1600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voodoo.business\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voodoo.business\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voodoo.business\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}