I am having hell will this.
I have a 3G card within a converter in a PC running ROS 3.6
Seems ROS does NOT pick up this card as there are no serial ports available. (I disabled the motherboards)
Only USB ports.
The converter itself does work as ive used a pcmcia wireless card within it in same pc with ROS.
The card has got support within ROS3.x from research so…
What could be issue here?
How surprised can you imagine i was when i decided to out of utmost frustration selected the usb as port and it dialed out and was working!
WTF!!!
This card is a PCMCIA card surely it would be a serial port not usb?!
Well here is the odd truth…
Well, at least it’s working…
I think it’s because that the PCMCIA port runs as a USB device, like a USB card reader and so on…
If you look at a laptop the mouse, keyboard, soundcard, wireless, bluetooth, (and new laptops with seriel/parallel port) actually run as a USB devices.
It’s the best way to build hardware today 
For those interested…
I used this as my reference… http://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Huawei_EVDO
Heres the catch, im trying to get this going again and i can’t!!!
Trying to use gprs or 3g…
Stay tuned for more tales from the ROS monster…
I keep on getting this darn
usb1: rcvd NO CARRIER
even if i try a valid normal line…
HELP!
Reset the damn thing and set it up exactly the same, now it works again…
grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr…
Ok so this is a bug!
Thats for sure.
I kept testing, and by enabling and disbaling packages it would sometimes work and sometimes not.
ie it would work with every package installed from v3.6.
But let me remove the dude package it will stop working.
So left it and removed something else… No not working again!
Ok not even those findings weir constant.
Have now mailed support, however doubt id get a solution in time for my customer.
Hold Thumbs
remember that those AT commands are not for RouterOS - they are sent to your modem direcly. If there is a bug, then it’s in the modem
True, however why would altering the package list trigger this?
If i do a install and leave it unaltered it will work no problems, but as soon as i add or remove any additional packages, it stops.
Thats what doesn’t make sense.
I did consider what you said and updated the firmware on the card to the latest as well, this didn’t make a difference.
I might have to do clean install and put user manager on another unit.
This will work but doubles price.
Ive now even gone the extra mile and replaced the card entirely!
Used another e620!
Exactly the same!
It seems if i reset-configuration it will work as well for little while.
But there might be good news for me yet as a better work-around.
It seems if i take the card out while ROS is running and put it back in, it will start working again!
If i can confirm this then maby thats the way to go till new ROS.
we don’t have such cards for testing, so we can’t find the issue …
Guess that means i will have to swallow losses and advise a different solution.
please write to support, maybe we will think of something
I have done so in last hope…
Thank You.
If i do indeed find solution , i will post it.
Is it possible to some how disable the driver for this card and re-enable it?
I would love to do this because it could simulate unplugging and replugging the card in and out.
Then it would be easily scripted to ensure it works the whole time.
I have to just comment that this particular card is claimed to be working in supported hardware.
http://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Supported_Hardware
normis: How could it make it onto that list if you do not have one yourself to test it?
Thanks
Ok so ive managed to isolate the problem to something our providers are doing… I Think…
Many people using Linux have experienced this same issue.
(After all ROS is Linux ;p)
http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/archive/index.php/t-73690.html
Really hope i find solution soon.
We add support for these cards based on user request. Once user says it’s working, we just trust him. But from my experience - 3G cards are very tricy to configure, as eash provider has some different settings.
Understandable…
Just like to update on this…
I did the whole /terminal system serial-terminal thing to test each at command…
I also did this test in windows using hyperterminal.
The results was interesting as the same commands work on windows, but not ROS.
I was able to answer a incoming call and such with the ROS setup but just not ATDTinsertnumberhere
The dreaded “NO CARRIER” prevales!
However windows works.
No idea what could be difference, very interesting problem.
And ive ensured the windows setup had NO other init strings or anything like that.
Going to get USB version of this card tomorrow. Lets hope that works or it’s off to using a 3g router as last resort.