Connect 3G dongle to raspberry pi
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- Connect 3g dongle to raspberry pi
Here we will see how to connect 3G dongle to raspberry pi using sakis 3g script. 100% this sakis 3g script helps connecting 3G dongle to raspberry pi to get internet for raspberry PI.
Please make sure that you have connected Dongle to raspberry pi and it has internet.
Connect 3g dongle to raspberry pi
Please follow the following steps to know how to connect 3g dongle to raspberry pi.
1)First please click on the following link to download the steup files required to connect 3G dongle to raspberry pi
Download 3G dongle setup Files (1043 downloads)2)Unzip the downloaded file
3)Now please upload the unzip file on the raspberry PI or ignore if you have already uploaded
4)Assuming You have above downloaded unzip dongel folder on your Desktop of raspberry pi
5)Now please navigate to dongle folder using following command (Assuming dongle folder is available in the Desktop)
sudo /Desktop/dongle
6)Please execute the following command to update the existing packages on raspberry pi
sudo apt-get update
7)Now please execute following command to check wheather dongle is detected or not which is shown below
lsusb
8)Assuming Dongle is detected
9)Please execute the following command to install mode switch
sudo apt-get install usb-modeswitch
10)Please execute the following command to install point to point switch
sudo apt-get install ppp
11)Please execute the following command unzip sakis3g
sudo tar -xzvf sakis3g.tar.gz
12)Please execute the following command to make sakis3g executable
sudo chmod +x sakis3g
13)Follow this step only when if dongle is in mass storage mode ( Please check step 7 ). If dongle is in modem mode then do not need to follow this step.
Modeswitch assignment for allocated port number which is shown below
sudo usb_modeswitch -v 12d1 -p 14fe -V 12d1 -P 14fe
14)Please execute the following command to run sakis3g interactive mode
sudo ./sakis3g --interactive
15)Now please choose following options
Connect with 3G > USB device > Your modem name >interface #1
16)If it is asking choose APN then please select reported by your modem which is shown below
17)Enter new APN_USER name which is shown below
18)Enter new password which is shown below
19)Wait till it gets connected to Internet
Please Follow the following steps for Auto reconnect of Dongle
1)Assuming you are able to connect with internet using above steps
2)Execute the following command to unzip umts skipper
sudo tar -xzvf umtskeeper.tar.gz
3)Execute the following command to give executable permission to umts skipper
sudo chmod +x umtskeeper
4)You should know following paramter before we execute auto connect command
CUSTOM_APN='airtelgprs.com' #reported at step 16 APN_USER='user' #Entered in step 17 APN_PASS='user' #Entered in step 18 USBMODEM:12d1:14fe #Check step 7
5)Now please execute the following command to edit rc.local file
sudo nano /etc/rc.local
6)Add following line before exit in rc.local file
Please modify following things with your details before you save in rc.local file
1)USBMODEM
2)APN_USER
3)APN_PASS
4)CUSTOM_APN
/home/pi/Desktop/dongle/umtskeeper --sakisoperators "USBINTERFACE='1' OTHER='USBMODEM' USBMODEM='12d1:14fe' SIM_PIN='1234' APN='CUSTOM_APN' CUSTOM_APN='airtelgprs.com' APN_USER='user' APN_PASS='user'" --sakisswitches "--sudo --console" --devicename 'Huawei' --log --nat 'no'
5)Press Ctrl + X and type y and hit Enter to save the changes.