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I've got Kamikaze running on an Airlink ar360w3g which supports USB and PCMCIA 3g modems. I have everything working great, but I'd like to do a few things (link /dev/ttyUSB0 or USB1 to /dev/modem, configure some firewall stuff, and dial out) when a modem is inserted.

I've read through hotplug2 documentation (which is pretty thin) and I'm not sure how do create a rule for this type of device.
Any help is appreciated smile

(Last edited by aport on 26 Nov 2008, 00:02)

bump smile

I am using comgt as my manager and dialer. It seems to work very well. However, my ultimate goal is to call comgt when a card is inserted. I don't think the 3g-iface script can do that.

This might be a bit late, but I wanted to do exactly the same -- performing some action when a USB device is added/removed.

The following example code will automatically configure a Huawei E169 UMTS modem and connect to 3G as soon as its plugged in or the system is rebooted.

Code was tested briefly using Kamikaze 8.09.1 on a NSLU2. Feel free to improve it!

Contents of /etc/hotplug.d/usb/20-usb-huawei-e169:

#!/bin/sh

# the product string for the Huawei E169
HUAWEI_E169="12d1/1001/0"

# the target we are looking for
TARGET_PRODUCT=${HUAWEI_E169}

case "$ACTION" in
    add)

        [ ${PRODUCT} == ${TARGET_PRODUCT} ] &&
        [ -n "${INTERFACE}" ] &&
        [ "$(expr substr ${INTERFACE} 1 2)" == "8/" ] && {
            
            if [ "$(lsusb -d 12d1:1001 -v | grep bNumInterfaces | cut -c 29)" == "1" ]
            then
                # invoke usb_modeswitch
                logger "Switching UMTS modem..."
                switch_huawei.sh
            else
                # configure /dev/ttyUSB0 and bring up the wan interface
                logger "Connecting via UMTS..."
                settty.sh
                ifup wan
            fi
        }
        ;;
esac

(Last edited by bosterm on 21 Jan 2010, 13:54)

bosterm: thanks!


I actually added a rule /etc/hotplug2-common.rules to launch a little connection manager. It does pretty much the same as your script but it's in C.

here's the rule if anyone cares:

SUBSYSTEM == usb-serial, DEVICENAME ~~ (ttyUSB0) {
        exec /bin/manager;           
}

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