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  • derrick0799D derrick0799

    @tom, sure. It will be later this evening before I am able to do so.

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    @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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      @derrick0799 Can you disable the voxl-modem service from running with systemctl disable voxl-modem and reboot your voxl.

      Then run voxl-modem-start.sh manually so I can see the full output?

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      @tom I ran 'systemctl disable voxl-modem' and reboot voxl then...
      yocto:~$ voxl-modem-start.sh

      VOXL detected...

      Initializing v2 modem...

      Waiting for ttyUSB2...
      ttyUSB2

      Initalizing cellular connection...
      Configuring GPIO to pull modem out of reset
      Waiting for the diag serial port(/dev/ttyUSB0) to activate
      checking for serial port: /dev/ttyUSB0
      /dev/ttyUSB0 is available
      Verifying existence of QMI port(/dev/cdc-wdm0)
      checking for serial port: /dev/cdc-wdm0
      /dev/cdc-wdm0 is available
      Unstick QMI countdown: 10
      Unstick QMI countdown: 9
      Unstick QMI countdown: 8
      Unstick QMI countdown: 7
      Unstick QMI countdown: 6
      "12253379280"
      Checking for system registration
      Attempt: 1
      {
      "registration": "registered",
      "plmn_mcc": 311,
      "plmn_mnc": 480,
      "plmn_description": "Verizon ",
      "roaming": false
      }

      response: [{
      "registration": "registered",
      "plmn_mcc": 311,
      "plmn_mnc": 480,
      "plmn_description": "Verizon ",
      "roaming": false
      }
      ]
      Successfully registered with the network
      Starting network
      "No effect"
      Checking connection status
      Connection is up
      Using the DHCP client to get an IP address
      udhcpc (v1.23.2) started
      Sending discover...
      Sending select for 100.68.239.240...
      Lease of 100.68.239.240 obtained, lease time 7200

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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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                  @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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                                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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