Pcengines ALIX 2C3 + Huawei E220 almost perfect

RouterOS General
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Hi all,

New mikrotik user here from today on:), the reason for using it is the support for all kind of HSDPA USB cards.

I installed it today on pcengines ALIX board, do a basic setup, and connect USB modem. I was playing with open source distros with no luck., but router os worked from first try. I installed it to CF card.
Since HSDPA is my primary internet connection I choose to try mikrotik, and I’m really impressed. Now I need to spend some money to buy a licence.

A still have a few questions/suggestions for the experts to make router os perfect:

Does router os run from the memory? I’m afraid of CF card failure?

When HSDPA connection is established the LED on the modem is allways on and it changes colours:), instead of blinking fast. Is this a driver bug?? or just my setup?, does someone uses Huawei E220 USB modem to confirm?

Second thing it would be really nice to have the option of selecting the preffered radio band, like 2G and 3G,- is there a manual way to force the radio to attach only to 3G network?

Radio signal indicator would be nice in winbox.

Thank you for looking and comments.

Regards,

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What version of RouterOS did you use? I cannot get USB working on ANY Alix boards

/Henrik

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RouterOS doesn’t write anything to the CF unless you enable webproxy or debug logging.

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I run the same setup (ALIX 2C3 + E220) with 3.10 and 3.11, works great! Got a couple of 6b2 that I will test the next days.

/Johan

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ROS 3.13 runs without problem on ALIX 6b2 + Huawei E220.

/Johan

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Yep.. But try with 3.14 :frowning:

/Henrik

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i have a bit of a problem with the same setup only trying to enable the sms netwatch; ref: http://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Monitoring_Network_thru_SMS_Alerts and http://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Sms.
the thing is, when I type:

 /tool sms send usb1 "mobilenumber" message="test message"

i get

failure: +CMS ERROR: 330

I am using a vodafoneES USB modem and it works on sending SMS installed on my laptop.
Below, the logs in debug mode.

15:22:29 gsm,write,debug \1B\r 
15:22:29 gsm,write,debug 
15:22:29 gsm,write,debug AT\r 
15:22:29 gsm,write,debug 
15:22:29 gsm,read,debug AT 
15:22:29 gsm,read,debug OK 
15:22:29 gsm,write,debug AT+CMGF=0\r 
15:22:29 gsm,write,debug 
15:22:29 gsm,read,debug AT+CMGF=0 
15:22:29 gsm,read,debug OK 
15:22:29 gsm,write,debug AT+CMGS=16\r 
15:22:29 gsm,read,debug AT+CMGS=16 
15:22:29 gsm,read,debug >  
15:22:29 gsm,write,debug 000100098106778990F1000004F4F29C0E\1A 
15:22:29 gsm,read,debug 000100098106778990F1000004F4F29C0E 
15:22:29 gsm,read,debug +CMS ERROR: 330

Anyone has any ideea?
Regards,

Steven

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add your SMS Center number to the command (‘smsc=’ parameter)

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oh dear, i’m just a lamer :slight_smile:
it works

thanks mate, much apreciated.

steven