Asus with 4g Huawei E5375 (or similar) anyone got it working?

[rassi]

Is here anybody who have got Asus router work with Huawei E5375 4g WIFI modem?
I do have AC68u and 5375 but im unable to get it connected.

Tested with newest Merlin.

 

[rassi]

And of course wrong model mentioned, my Huawei is E5372

 

[Aldorello]

Same problem here!
I just bought an ASUS RT-AC87U to use with my Huawei E5377 with Salt unlimited 4g data plan (ex. Orange Switzerland).

The reason that pushed me to buy the RT-AC87U is that I share the connection between 20 devices (Macs, smartphones, printers, TV, music) and soon will add 5 1080p wireless ip cameras, so I thought a fast network would much help and hoped to overcome the 10 maximum clients problems of the Huawei.

As you can see in the screenshot the USB connected router is recognised, I also tried many settings (APN, user and password) but never got to connect it to the internet.

 

[Aldorello]

I attach also the system logs, maybe they are useful?

 

[sfx2000]

It's been a long time since I've worked with Huawei USB modems, but I can share some quick hints that might get people further down the road of getting this working.. I personally don't have one any longer, so I cannot be much further help, but perhaps...

One might need the usbutils package - when I had this modem under debian on a laptop, I had to grab the source and build it.. more here - http://www.linux-usb.org/

Check lsusb -v and see what it returns

Typically Huawei initializes as a USB Mass Storage Device (USB-CDROM), for onboard SD Card reader and the Connection Manager SW for Windows

Need to switch the mode using usb-modeswitch, and here's where it gets tricky...

Many of these modems can either be USB-Serial (which you'll see two end-points there usually, one of those is the "modem" port, the other is a "diagnostic" port, you want the modem port to use for PPP

Alternately, many can be also configured as a USB-NDIS device, showing up as a USB Ethernet Adapter, which can work, but you'll have to perhaps provide the netmask, Gateway and LAN IP address, DNS, etc..

For this purpose, most will want the USB port configured as a modem with PPP

 

[PropS]

Same problem here!
I just bought an ASUS RT-AC87U to use with my Huawei E5377 with Salt unlimited 4g data plan (ex. Orange Switzerland).

The reason that pushed me to buy the RT-AC87U is that I share the connection between 20 devices (Macs, smartphones, printers, TV, music) and soon will add 5 1080p wireless ip cameras, so I thought a fast network would much help and hoped to overcome the 10 maximum clients problems of the Huawei.

As you can see in the screenshot the USB connected router is recognised, I also tried many settings (APN, user and password) but never got to connect it to the internet.

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Hi, I have exactly the same problem. I have a Huawei E5372 with an Orange Unlimited Surf card and an Asus RT-AC56U, but I cannot make it work. I have tried tens of times with the original firmware and also with AsusWRT Merlin and DD-WRT, but I am not able to connect using the USB dongle. In the past I have found this blog post where they show that such router can work with Asus devices http://majzel.blogspot.ch/2014/11/huawei-e5372-4g-hotspot-router.html but I am not able to replicate the result. The screenshots show that the firmware version is not the last one, could the problem depend on this? Do you know where I can find older version of the Asus firmware? I mean, older then those available on the Asus website.

 

[VANT]

My E3372 not work with 66u and 87u. I have also d-link dwm-134 and not work too.

 

[Aldorello]

Hi, I have exactly the same problem. I have a Huawei E5372 with an Orange Unlimited Surf card and an Asus RT-AC56U, but I cannot make it work. I have tried tens of times with the original firmware and also with AsusWRT Merlin and DD-WRT, but I am not able to connect using the USB dongle. In the past I have found this blog post where they show that such router can work with Asus devices http://majzel.blogspot.ch/2014/11/huawei-e5372-4g-hotspot-router.html but I am not able to replicate the result. The screenshots show that the firmware version is not the last one, could the problem depend on this? Do you know where I can find older version of the Asus firmware? I mean, older then those available on the Asus website.

Same for me... I tried those settings with no results! I'm getting crazy!

 

[sfx2000]

Well.. if you have a battery powered device, hook it up to Windows first - the drivers there will flip the usb mode from Mass Storage once installed and you're connected - then perhaps remove it (still powered up) and drop it on to your WAN port... the USB should either be in Serial-PPP or NDIS mode, depending on device.

Otherwise, it's scripting the USB interface to flip the USB mode on many of the Huawei devices...

 

[Aldorello]

Dear SFX, thanks a lot for your answer.
I tried to turn on the Huawei connected to a Windows PC and then connect it to the router. I still can't connect to the internet.

One thing I noticed that's different is icon "SIM card is ready", which I had never seen before. I just updated to firmware v6117 and after rebooting the router the icon disappeared. Any idea?

 

[PropS]

Well.. if you have a battery powered device, hook it up to Windows first - the drivers there will flip the usb mode from Mass Storage once installed and you're connected - then perhaps remove it (still powered up) and drop it on to your WAN port... the USB should either be in Serial-PPP or NDIS mode, depending on device.

Otherwise, it's scripting the USB interface to flip the USB mode on many of the Huawei devices...

I have tried to do it, but I am still not able to connect using the dongle. Apparently, everything looks like before and plugging/unplugging the device using Windows does not work.

I have also updated the router (RT-AC56U) to the latest beta firmware released few weeks ago which should bring some improvement about 4G dongles management, but nothing has changed. This is really frustrating, I am trying everything possible to make it work, but looks like there's no way...

 

[Aldorello]

There must be a way... Pleeeease!

 

[Aldorello]

Hello everyone! Still no solutions to this problem?

It's so sad to have this amazing router sitting in my house without being able to use it

 

[AndresVR]

Hi everyone!

After fiddling with same connection issues for some weeks I finally decided to try AdvancedTomato firmware from Shibby.
After flashing and initial configuration, Asus RT-AC68U and Huawei E3372h-153 (flashed to stick mode) started to work together without any issues. I set the following SETPORT mode on stick: AT^SETPORT="A1,A2;10,12,16"

AdvancedTomato: http://tomato.groov.pl/ - I used: tomato-RT-AC68U-ARM--132-AIO-64K.zip
Installation: https://elytron.wordpress.com/2015/01/24/advanced-tomato-on-an-asus-rt-n66u-wireless-router/
Result:

The same router and stick were not able to go above 18Mbit/s (DL) with numerous tried Merlin and Asus FW-s, so apparently the stick was in ppp mode.

Good luck!
AndresVR

 

[elytron]

AndresVR, thanks for linking to my blog post, hope it was helpful. Advanced Tomato can be downloaded from advancedtomato.com. It provides an enhanced router GUI, with all the features from Shibby's Tomato. I really like it, and prefer it over ASUS stock firmware. Though the stock firmware is also pretty good. Sorry for going off topic a little. I currently have it on my RT-N66U router.

 

[puosua]

Hi everyone!

After fiddling with same connection issues for some weeks I finally decided to try AdvancedTomato firmware from Shibby.
After flashing and initial configuration, Asus RT-AC68U and Huawei E3372h-153 (flashed to stick mode) started to work together without any issues. I set the following SETPORT mode on stick: AT^SETPORT="A1,A2;10,12,16"

Hi AndresVR, do you have https issue?

I have Asus RT-N18U tested with Huawei E3372h-607, Huawei E5573s-806 and TP-Link M7350. All three devices worked with RT-N18U using Asus' stock FW, no matter choosing Android Phone or USB Modem, all can connect to internet.

Problem:
Unable to access some secure websites (HTTPS), either website cannot open, keep loading endless, or cannot do log-in. All 3 devices use stock FW, Huawei devices are Hilink mode.

Tried to disable firewall on router, or manually DNS setting (e.g. Google public DNS), or manipulated MTU setting (1476, 1452, 1440, or less...) , https issue still exists.

Tried different FW:
Stock FW: 3.0.0.4.378.9545 (https issue) / Beta_9.0.0.4.380_2695 (https issue, but seems more stable)
Asuswrt Merlin By Hggomes: RT-N18U_380.57.7_HGG-FINAL (buggy)
Tomato Shibby: tomato-RT-N18U-ARM--136-AIO-64K (Huawei devices worked but need manual switch+connect; TP-Link not worked)
Advanced Tomato: T-N18U-AT-ARM-3.1-132-AIO-64K (both not worked)

I wonder whether only I have the https issue?

 

[Gernot Pansy]

Hi AndresVR, do you have https issue?

I have Asus RT-N18U tested with Huawei E3372h-607, Huawei E5573s-806 and TP-Link M7350. All three devices worked with RT-N18U using Asus' stock FW, no matter choosing Android Phone or USB Modem, all can connect to internet.

Problem:
Unable to access some secure websites (HTTPS), either website cannot open, keep loading endless, or cannot do log-in. All 3 devices use stock FW, Huawei devices are Hilink mode.

Tried to disable firewall on router, or manually DNS setting (e.g. Google public DNS), or manipulated MTU setting (1476, 1452, 1440, or less...) , https issue still exists.

Tried different FW:
Stock FW: 3.0.0.4.378.9545 (https issue) / Beta_9.0.0.4.380_2695 (https issue, but seems more stable)
Asuswrt Merlin By Hggomes: RT-N18U_380.57.7_HGG-FINAL (buggy)
Tomato Shibby: tomato-RT-N18U-ARM--136-AIO-64K (Huawei devices worked but need manual switch+connect; TP-Link not worked)
Advanced Tomato: T-N18U-AT-ARM-3.1-132-AIO-64K (both not worked)

I wonder whether only I have the https issue?

I have a different router and modem, but the same issues with https connections. Ony my old router with padavan firmware i didn't had such problems. Have you found a solution?

 

[puosua]

I have a different router and modem, but the same issues with https connections. Ony my old router with padavan firmware i didn't had such problems. Have you found a solution?

No, I gave it up. Instead, I bought cheap TP-Link TL-MR3020 as 4G-Router, and set Asus RT-N18U in AP-mode. https issue is gone.

 

[Estyle]

my huawei E3372h-607 can also not work with AC87U, can you help me?

 

[Pila]

I have different models, but as they work normally, maybe...

I have Huawei K5150 Vodafone (Double NAT) and Huawei E3131 (single NAT).

With any of them, I allway so the same:

1. Connect the USB modem first to my Win PC using supplied program.

2. Remove (disable) SIM PIN needed to connect so it connects without asking for a PIN

3. Change connection mode to Automatic.

4. Make sure my connection works on my PC.

5. Obviously, the router needs to be properly configured for USB modem connection. In my case: Location Others, APN service entered manually, authentication PAP/CHAP and that is all.

And they work on several routers and allways connect automatically. But, the ruter can be a pain to configure as it continously activates Dual WAN access and I need to turn it off manually several times and reboot. But, Once I get router under control, I can switch an USB modem and replace it and it works.

When a router is working, I save configuration and reload it if I need to switch to and away from USB modems. I reload saved configuration If I need to switch to the regular (non-usb) modem as that proved to be pain.