Gargoyle 1.5.1 and above now supports 3g/UMTS USB Dongles for WAN access to the internet from your wireless ISP provider.

To be able to use a 3g with Gargoyle

• Your Gargoyle router must have a free USB port.
• You need 3g/UMTS USB Dongle
• An active account with you 3g provider

In your router configuration select

–» Connection –» Basic –» Internet/WAN –» Connect via:

Select 3g (GSM) from the pull down box

If 3g (GSM) is not displayed you will need to plug in your 3g/UMTS USB Dongle wait a couple of minutes then refresh your browser.

You can either manually enter your provider details or select your provider from the drop down “Mobile ISP:” box

service depends on the services (eg Orange in Poland allows you to connect GSM/UMTS (HSPA) and CDMA).

Select USB port

• /dev/ttyUSB0
• /dev/ttyUSB1
• /dev/ttyUSB2
• /dev/ttyUSB3

If you don't have SSH access to your router you will have to guess which port your modem manufacture uses

PIN is on the sim card. This may or may not be used.

Manual or select your provider

Access Point Name (APN) is a computer protocol that typically allows a user's computer to access the Internet using the mobile phone network.

optional, provider dependant

optional, provider dependant

When using 3g select which option for your spare WAN Ethernet port

From command line install picocom

<shell> opkg update opkg install picocom </shell>

Connect to your 3g dongle

<shell> picocom -b 115200 /dev/ttyUSB0 </shell>

Change to your 3g port (USBx). If you get he wrong port you will get this error at he end when you type anything.

<shell> Terminal ready

FATAL: write to term failed: Resource temporarily unavailable root@Gargoyle:~$ </shell>

or when nothing is plugged in (3g dongle) <shell> FATAL: cannot open /dev/ttyUSB2: No such file or directory

</shell>

success will look something like this

<shell> +ZDONR: “Telecom NZ”,530,5,“CS_ONLY”,“ROAM_OFF”

+ZPASR: “HSUPA”

+ZDONR: “Telecom NZ”,530,5,“CS_PS”,“ROAM_OFF”

+ZPASR: “UMTS” </shell>