Sierra Wireless MC8705 Supported yet?

RouterOS General
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Hi, anyones help would be greatly appreciated.

I am trying to get this Sierra Wireless MC8705 3G module to work but I cannot get the routerboard (411UAHR) to talk to it apart from recognizing it as a USB device under resources.

I have tried the following commands with no response…
/system serial-terminal usb2 channel=0
/system serial-terminal usb2 channel=1
/system serial-terminal usb2 channel=2
/system serial-terminal usb2 channel=3
/system serial-terminal usb2 channel=4

(@Baud 9600 and then as auto)


Under System/Resources/USB, I have listed:
1:1 RB400 OHCI
2:1 RB400 EHCI
2:2 MC8705

Under ports I have listed:
Serial0
usb2

Has anyone successfully got ones of these to work, or do I have to purchase an older model module?
Thanks

2

Update:

I have had some time to set it up correctly and all that is needed is:

Channels (info and data) set to 3

Updated support hardware doc on mikrotik site.

3

I have the same card and it shows up but I can’t seem to get a connection to it.

Do you have any more info on this ?

What FW is the 8705 and RBOS ?

Been looking at all the posts but not sure if I can find a solution for my problem.

Any help is appreciated.

S

4

What RouterOS version you are using?
check maybe the card is recognized at LTE card - check the interface lte menu.
If you want to use the old style ppp connection for this card use this command and do a reboot the router after that:
/port firmware set ignore-directip-modem=yes

5

I tries 5.19 first and had no luck.

Then tried the current beta release and now bricked the RB411.

The buzzer makes weird noise on boot and keeps rebooting.

Working on getting the serial connection and try to restore somehow the board.

I have looked the LTE tabs as well with no success.

I will try the suggest old PPP command as well.

I have another default RB411 with same MC8705 card that is not touched.

Do you have any suggestions on maybe how to start setting that up with proper FW and compatibility ?

I know there are many post’s our on the board, but none seem to be really showing clear results.

Thanks for all the good work guys.

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Hi,

we are just testing a MC8705 sample we get from SW (regarding to the fact the MC8790 we used before is EoL shortly) with ROS 5.19 and RB/411U.

Card didn’t work with ‘old’ PPP config (will test the command ULDIS mentioned above later), but directly work as LTE-Interface.

/interface lte
set 0 apn=Your_APN disabled=no mac-address=26:22:E6:A0:01:07 \
    modem-init="" mtu=1500 name=lte1 network-mode=auto password=pwd pin="" user=\
    user




[admin@meconet] > interface lte info 0
             status: call in progress
         pin-status: no password required
      functionality: full
       manufacturer: Sierra Wireless, Incorporated
              model: MC8705
           revision: T1_0_1_1AP R309 CNSZXL00000015 2011/01/21 18:28:30
      serial-number: 353567040698533
   current-operator: Telekom.de
  access-technology: 3G
     signal-strengh: -83 dBm
   frame-error-rate: n/a

Regards
Lutz

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