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  • tomT tom

    @derrick0799 @vmassague Another thing for both of you to check is to see if the APN is indeed set correctly, you can do this with the following command:

    / # echo -ne "AT+CGDCONT?\r" | busybox microcom -t 1000 /dev/ttyUSB2
    AT+CGDCONT?
    +CGDCONT: 1,"IP","h2g2","0.0.0.0",0,0,0,0
    +CGDCONT: 2,"IPV4V6","ims","0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0",0,0,0,0
    +CGDCONT: 3,"IPV4V6","sos","0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0",0,0,0,1
    

    In this case, my APN is h2g2 for GoogleFi

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    @tom said in LTE - Modem Works But Cannot Ping:

    echo -ne "AT+CGDCONT?\r" | busybox microcom -t 1000 /dev/ttyUSB2

    yocto:~$ echo -ne "AT+CGDCONT?\r" | busybox microcom -t 1000 /dev/ttyUSB2
    AT+CGDCONT?
    +CGDCONT: 1,"IP","vzwinternet","0.0.0.0",0,0,0,0
    +CGDCONT: 2,"IPV4V6","ims","0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0",0,0,0,0
    +CGDCONT: 3,"IPV4V6","sos","0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0",0,0,0,1

    OK

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      @derrick0799 Do you have WiFi connected? If so, try disabling it with ifconfig wlan0 down and seeing if you can then ping.

      Also, can I see the output of route -n?

      Same for you @vmassague something to try.

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      • derrick0799D derrick0799

        @tom said in LTE - Modem Works But Cannot Ping:

        echo -ne "AT+CGDCONT?\r" | busybox microcom -t 1000 /dev/ttyUSB2

        yocto:~$ echo -ne "AT+CGDCONT?\r" | busybox microcom -t 1000 /dev/ttyUSB2
        AT+CGDCONT?
        +CGDCONT: 1,"IP","vzwinternet","0.0.0.0",0,0,0,0
        +CGDCONT: 2,"IPV4V6","ims","0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0",0,0,0,0
        +CGDCONT: 3,"IPV4V6","sos","0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0",0,0,0,1

        OK

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        @derrick0799 Looks like APN is setting correctly so that's good

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        • tomT tom

          @derrick0799 Do you have WiFi connected? If so, try disabling it with ifconfig wlan0 down and seeing if you can then ping.

          Also, can I see the output of route -n?

          Same for you @vmassague something to try.

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          @tom after disabling wlan0,
          / # ping 8.8.8.8
          connect: Network is unreachable

          / # route -n
          Kernel IP routing table
          Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
          172.17.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.0.0 U 0 0 0 docker0
          / #

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            @derrick0799 What does ifconfig show?

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            • tomT tom

              @derrick0799 What does ifconfig show?

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              @tom
              / # ifconfig
              docker0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 02:42:77:DF:4E:80
              inet addr:172.17.0.1 Bcast:0.0.0.0 Mask:255.255.0.0
              inet6 addr: fe80::42:77ff:fedf:4e80/64 Scope:Link
              UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
              RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
              TX packets:2 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
              collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
              RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:140 (140.0 B)

              lo Link encap:Local Loopback
              inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
              inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
              UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:65536 Metric:1
              RX packets:609376 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
              TX packets:609376 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
              collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
              RX bytes:65142775 (62.1 MiB) TX bytes:65142775 (62.1 MiB)

              / #

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                @derrick0799 Is that the output after running voxl-modem-start.sh?

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                  At that point, you should be seeing something similar to:

                  wwan0     Link encap:UNSPEC  HWaddr 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00  
                            inet addr:30.60.23.115  P-t-P:30.60.23.115  Mask:255.255.255.248
                            UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
                            RX packets:33 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
                            TX packets:55 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
                            collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
                            RX bytes:3214 (3.1 KiB)  TX bytes:4672 (4.5 KiB)
                  
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                  • tomT tom

                    At that point, you should be seeing something similar to:

                    wwan0     Link encap:UNSPEC  HWaddr 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00  
                              inet addr:30.60.23.115  P-t-P:30.60.23.115  Mask:255.255.255.248
                              UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
                              RX packets:33 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
                              TX packets:55 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
                              collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
                              RX bytes:3214 (3.1 KiB)  TX bytes:4672 (4.5 KiB)
                    
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                    @tom I think my problem was that the wifi was connected when I ran the voxl-modem-start.sh
                    Now that I am connect with adb everything started working when I re-ran voxl-modem-start.sh. It is pinging as it should.

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                    • tomT tom

                      At that point, you should be seeing something similar to:

                      wwan0     Link encap:UNSPEC  HWaddr 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00  
                                inet addr:30.60.23.115  P-t-P:30.60.23.115  Mask:255.255.255.248
                                UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
                                RX packets:33 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
                                TX packets:55 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
                                collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
                                RX bytes:3214 (3.1 KiB)  TX bytes:4672 (4.5 KiB)
                      
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                      @tom
                      / # ifconfig
                      docker0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 02:42:77:DF:4E:80
                      inet addr:172.17.0.1 Bcast:0.0.0.0 Mask:255.255.0.0
                      inet6 addr: fe80::42:77ff:fedf:4e80/64 Scope:Link
                      UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
                      RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
                      TX packets:2 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
                      collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
                      RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:140 (140.0 B)

                      lo Link encap:Local Loopback
                      inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
                      inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
                      UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:65536 Metric:1
                      RX packets:1472332 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
                      TX packets:1472332 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
                      collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
                      RX bytes:155328799 (148.1 MiB) TX bytes:155328799 (148.1 MiB)

                      wwan0 Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
                      inet addr:100.76.95.21 P-t-P:100.76.95.21 Mask:255.255.255.252
                      UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
                      RX packets:2 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
                      TX packets:2713 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
                      collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
                      RX bytes:612 (612.0 B) TX bytes:1304344 (1.2 MiB)

                      / # ping 8.8.8.8
                      PING 8.8.8.8 (8.8.8.8) 56(84) bytes of data.
                      64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_req=1 ttl=113 time=34.3 ms
                      64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_req=2 ttl=113 time=35.1 ms
                      64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_req=3 ttl=113 time=34.0 ms
                      64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_req=4 ttl=113 time=27.1 ms
                      64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_req=5 ttl=113 time=31.1 ms
                      64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_req=6 ttl=113 time=36.5 ms
                      64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_req=7 ttl=113 time=24.0 ms

                      Thanks @Tom

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                        @derrick0799 Great to hear!

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                          Problem solved for me too! I think it was also the wlan0 being up. Thanks a lot for the support @tom

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                          • vmassagueV vmassague

                            Problem solved for me too! I think it was also the wlan0 being up. Thanks a lot for the support @tom

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                            @vmassague Awesome!

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