Huawei E160 wont connect

RouterOS General
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Hi all, I am having issues setting up a 3G modem. the error I get is:

20:02:55 async,ppp,info ppp-out1: initializing modem... 
20:02:55 async,ppp,info ppp-out1: dialing out... 
20:02:55 async,ppp,info ppp-out1: terminating... - modem hunged up 
20:02:55 async,ppp,info ppp-out1: disconnected 
20:02:55 async,ppp,info ppp-out1: initializing... 
20:02:55 async,ppp,info ppp-out1: reseting link... 
20:02:56 async,ppp,info ppp-out1: initializing modem... 
20:02:56 async,ppp,info ppp-out1: dialing out... 
20:02:56 async,ppp,info ppp-out1: terminating... - modem hunged up 
20:02:56 async,ppp,info ppp-out1: disconnected 
20:02:56 async,ppp,info ppp-out1: initializing... 
20:02:56 async,ppp,info ppp-out1: reseting link... 
20:02:57 async,ppp,info ppp-out1: initializing modem... 
20:02:57 async,ppp,info ppp-out1: dialing out... 
20:02:57 async,ppp,info ppp-out1: terminating... - modem hunged up 
20:02:58 async,ppp,info ppp-out1: disconnected 
20:02:58 async,ppp,info ppp-out1: initializing... 
20:02:58 async,ppp,info ppp-out1: reseting link..

the device recognises as:

2 2:3    HUAWEI Technology        HUAWEI Mobile         480 Mbps

and adds the ports:

 #   NAME                      CHANNELS   USED-BY                     BAUD-RATE
 1   usb2                      4                                      9600

and the ppp-out1 details:

add add-default-route=yes allow=pap,chap,mschap1,mschap2 apn=internet \
    comment="" data-channel=0 dial-command=ATDT dial-on-demand=no disabled=\
    yes info-channel=3 keepalive-timeout=30 max-mru=1500 max-mtu=1500 \
    modem-init="" mrru=disabled name=ppp-out1 null-modem=no password="" \
    phone=*99# pin="" port=usb2 profile=default use-peer-dns=no user=""

I have played around with using different combinations of the data channel and info channel, with no luck. I had this working with wvdial, so I know it works. I have also tried using RouterOSv5.0rc7, with the exact same results. Does anyone have any ideas.

Thanks.

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also i can connect to the modem with:

/system serial-terminal usb2 channel=0

or

/system serial-terminal usb2 channel=3

and issue the command:

ATI

and receive the reply:

Manufacturer: huawei
Model: E160X
Revision: 11.609.10.02.432
IMEI: 354765037251733
+GCAP: +CGSM,+DS,+ES

This only works using data channels 0 and 3. data channels 1 and 2 wont let me type anything.

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Apparently i’ve been experiencing the same problem, however when i change my sim card to another provider and follow the same procedure for connecting ppp-client it works!!! when i set dial-on-demand=yes i get an interminent on off connection :frowning: another intresting observation is that when i hook up the dongle onto my win xp laptop the dongle works!!! if anyone has hacked this pliiiiiizzzz :smiley: in my case am using safaricom (vodaphone kenya)-works perfect but orange (kenya) & Airtel (Kenya) not working on mikrotik 433auh version 4.x