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    Connecting 4/3G USB Modem With Raspberry PI B+ Model

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    This document provides steps to connect a Raspberry Pi 2 Model B to a ZTE MF823 4G modem. It involves increasing the USB current limit, selecting an appropriate power supply, plugging in the modem, checking that it is detected in lsusb, configuring the network settings, and connecting. The tutorial aims to make the process straightforward by consolidating the key steps.

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    Connecting 4/3G USB modem with Raspberry PI B+ Model

    muhammad.imran@miun.se, Mid Sweden University, Sweden. June 2015

    This tutorial is about connecting a Raspberry PI 2 Model B with ZTE MF823 4G-modem. This is a
    quite straight forward task but people could get confuse because of huge online material. Here are the
    few steps for making the PI setup working with mobile broadband.

    USB current increase


    First thing to do is increase the USB default current which is 600 mA. This could be increased to 1.2
    A by using one of the two methods for the Raspberry Pi 2 Model B.
    In first method for to /boot/config.txt and add max_usb_current=1. Reboot the system in order to get
    new configuration.
    In second method, a software wiringPi is used for making the changes. Writing 0 means default
    values (600 mA) and 1 means increased values (1 A). First command shows that you make sure it is
    default and now going to increase it. For setting the values to default, reverse the first and third
    command.

    gpio -g write 38 0
    gpio -g mode 38 out
    gpio -g write 38 1

    Power supply selection


    Important thing is to select a right power supply which gives required current for the load.
    My own experiment showed that together with PI visual, FLIR one thermal cameras, ZTE USB
    device, USB Bluetooth and HDMI the current even went up to 900 mA.

    Plug in ZTE USB modem to PI


    When you plug in the ZTE USB modem, you would see RED and perhaps green LEDs on the modem.
    Enter in the terminal
    $ lsusb

    And you would see the ZTE model listed in the device list which show that device is detected. Now
    enter the command

    $ Ifconfig

    And you would see usb0 without any IP address


    usb0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 36:4b:53:b7:e3:6e
    UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
    RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
    TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
    collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
    RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

    Open any browser (Midori) in raspberry PI and enter http://192.168.0.1/index.html#home. You


    would be shown a message No USIM card or Card Invalid. Insert card and reboot the system.

    Enter the command again

    $ Ifconfig

    And you would see usb0 with any IP address


    usb0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 36:4b:53:b7:e3:6e
    inet addr:192.168.0.131 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
    UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
    RX packets: 6090 errors:0 dropped:3 overruns:0 frame:0
    TX packets:5593 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
    collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
    RX bytes:2973105 (2.8 KiB) TX bytes:538500 (525.8 KiB)

    Now open the browser again and go to the connection tab and then go to Network tab. In the
    Network Mode select 4G Prefer. This is important as if there is no 4G coverage in the area.

    The last thing to do is to press connect in the Home button.

    I would like to thank Skerved Vincent for being part of the discussion and debugging processes.

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