AirPrime 5220

j.yoram · Sun Dec 18, 2005 12:50 pm

Hi All

mikrotik added support to evdo 5220 cards.
Did anyone use it?
Can anyone say how to install the card as a serial device?
it is now recognize as USB.

Thanks in advanced

Johnny

Mon Dec 19, 2005 12:05 pm

setup should be very similar to this one:
http://www.mikrotik.com/docs/ros/2.9/interface/gprs

Davesworld · Thu Dec 29, 2005 10:51 pm

setup should be very similar to this one:
http://www.mikrotik.com/docs/ros/2.9/interface/gprs

Unfortunately, no. The gprs modem in this example has built in serial ports, not usb. The whole issue here is that the PPP setup does not give us the option of adding usb modems. Most of the new pcmcia cellular data cards with megabit capability use built in usb rather than the old com port. It won't be long before we are capable of getting over 10mbs over air using HSDPA so this will become an even more viable alternative so it is even more likely that people will want to use these devices here. All we need is usb modem capability and we can add the AT init string needed and be done with it.

Mon Jan 02, 2006 11:03 am

no, it works the same. we have tested USB CDMA device, it appears as new serial port. if it does not do this, maybe your card is not supported, make a supout.rif and send to support

blankman · Mon Apr 03, 2006 4:52 am

no, it works the same. we have tested USB CDMA device, it appears as new serial port. if it does not do this, maybe your card is not supported, make a supout.rif and send to support

Well actually, if you are in the states and using Verizon's Evdo, then you want to select the usb1 port. So, to be clear, here is what you will need to setup the Verizon Evdo in a soekris with MT.

Soekris board (remember that is default at 19200 8n1, MT is 9600 8n1)
PC5220 PCMCIA card (I think this will also work with any card that has a supported USB host controller)
You have to setup the card on a Windoz box fist (just follow there dirs to get on line)
From the setup doc's you should have a user id: <your_number@vzwg3.com>
setup a profile if you like (I used defaults and gave it a name of myEvdo)
setup a ppp-client. Make sure you add dial-command=ATD and your user name from above.

Here is my profile:

add name="myEvdo" use-compression=default use-vj-compression=default \
    use-encryption=default only-one=default change-tcp-mss=default comment=""

add name="myEvdoPPP-Client" max-mtu=1500 max-mru=1500 port=usb1 \
    user="<your_number>@vzw3g.com" password="" profile=myEvdo phone="#777" \
    dial-command="ATD" modem-init="" null-modem=no dial-on-demand=no \
    add-default-route=yes use-peer-dns=yes allow=pap disabled=no

That seems to work. And it doesn't seem to have the lcp-echo problems that the pebble-linux boxes does ... that is I usually have to set the no lcp timeout.

jarosoup · Tue Apr 04, 2006 1:49 am

Does this work with the Verizon PCMCIA CDMA cards? We've got a PC5740...

blankman · Tue Apr 04, 2006 2:24 am

Does this work with the Verizon PCMCIA CDMA cards? We've got a PC5740...

I think so, but I don't have that card to try. I know that it should work on anything that that has USB hostcontroller in it that MT will recognize.

jarosoup · Tue Apr 04, 2006 2:48 am

Thanks blankman, I think it's time to dig out my trusty net4521 and give it a shot. I'll report back once I do.

sacwireless · Tue Apr 04, 2006 4:16 am

kyocera kpc650 also works pretty well, i get 600-800k where i am thanks to the latest 2.9.18 that added support for larger packet sizes. was previously only getting about 200k with 2.9.17 during testing.

jarosoup · Tue Apr 04, 2006 9:10 am

I ended up getting the Verizon PC5740 (PCMCIA) to work with 2.9.18

No problems so far. Thanks for posting your config blankman - I used a similar config, though didn't need a username or password. Here's some additional info if anyone is interested:

[admin@MikroTik] ppp> profile pr                                               
Flags: * - default 
 0 * name="default" use-compression=default use-vj-compression=default 
     use-encryption=default only-one=default change-tcp-mss=yes 

 1   name="verizon" use-compression=default use-vj-compression=default 
     use-encryption=default only-one=default change-tcp-mss=default


[admin@MikroTik] interface ppp-client> print                                   
Flags: X - disabled, R - running 
 0  R name="ppp-out1" max-mtu=1500 max-mru=1500 port=acm1 user="" password="" 
      profile=verizon phone="#777" dial-command="ATD" modem-init="" 
      null-modem=no dial-on-demand=no add-default-route=yes use-peer-dns=yes 
      allow=pap,chap,mschap1,mschap2 


[admin@MikroTik] port> print                                                   
Flags: I - inactive 
 #   NAME                             USED-BY                         BAUD-RATE
 0   serial0                          Serial Console                  9600     
 1   serial1                                                          9600     
 2   acm1                             PPP <ppp-out1>                  9600


[admin@MikroTik] system resource> usb print detail                             
 0 device="2:1" name="USB OHCI Root Hub" serial-number="c4939000" 
   vendor-id="0x0000" device-id="0x0000" speed="12 Mbps" ports=1 
   usb-version="1.10" 

 1 device="1:1" name="USB OHCI Root Hub" serial-number="c4937000" 
   vendor-id="0x0000" device-id="0x0000" speed="12 Mbps" ports=1 
   usb-version="1.10" 

 2 device="1:2" vendor="Curitel Communications, Inc." 
   name="Curitel Communications, Inc." vendor-id="0x106c" device-id="0x3701" 
   speed="12 Mbps" ports=0 usb-version="1.10"

At my current location, my signal isn't so good. But, this card is faster in Mikrotik than it is in Windows. Got about 256Kb/128Kb in Mikrotik and 256Kb/64Kb (down/up). There were far fewer "drops" when running a bw test on the Mikrotik. I'm going to try this again where there's better signal and faster speeds available to see what it can do. Nice work Mikrotik

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