Huawei K4606 issues

Hans Petter Selasky hps at bitfrost.no
Wed Dec 4 08:25:23 UTC 2013


On 12/04/13 09:24, Edwin Groothuis - FreeBSD wrote:
> On 3/12/13 22:08 , Hans Petter Selasky wrote:
>> On 12/03/13 11:28, Edwin Groothuis - FreeBSD wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I am the proud owner of a Huawei K4606 3G USB dongle and guess... It
>>> doesn't work. In the past I managed to get the E220 and E169 working, so
>>> I thought that this would be possible to.
>>>
>>> Boy was I wrong :-(
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Try to google for existing quirks using the VID and PID values.
>
>
> I found out that the device doesn't act as a serial port but an ethernet
> card:
>
> bInterfaceClass is 2 (UICLASS_CDC)
> bInterfaceSubClass is 14 (undefined in usb.h)
>
> Reading up on various other forums, they talk about using it as an
> Ethernet device:
> "and shows up as a USB ethernet device after modeswitching"
>
> According to the spec from Vodafone, this is a HiSilicon Balong 520 chipset.
>
> I think I'm stuck here...
> Unless somebody has a good idea where to go next?
> I'm open to experiment for the next 25 days :-)
>
> Edwin
>

Have a look at if_cdce.c

Should support your device, probably the NCM protocol.

--HPS


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