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172-huawei-e3372-macos #1

Open retifrav opened 5 years ago

retifrav commented 5 years ago

Huawei E3372 modem on Mac OS comments.

zs-stpa commented 5 years ago

does no longer work in macOS 10.15 catalina. any ideas there?

retifrav commented 5 years ago

Haven't installed it yet, so I cannot check. But if it's because of the driver, then the only way would be to get an updated driver, which hopefully will be released by vendor (Huawei) at some point.

mattsson commented 4 years ago

How do you send AT commands using the Terminal and screen? I feel like I'm pretty well-versed in using the Terminal, but I'm having a hard time finding any information on how to do this.

retifrav commented 4 years ago

Like it's said in the article, if the modem is connected and recognized in the system (ls -l /dev/tty.HUA*), then you just launch screen /dev/tty.HUAWEIMobile-Pcui (or whatever ID it has in your device tree) and then you can execute AT commands.

mattsson commented 4 years ago

I do have the screen session running, but how do I send commands? Simply entering the letters AT and pressing return in the Terminal does nothing.

retifrav commented 4 years ago

I don't remember having issues with that, but let me check it once I'm home. I'll let you know.

mattsson commented 4 years ago

Ah, never mind. The command doesn't appear when I write it put it does actually get input. So, writing AT does give me an OK. However, inputting AT^SETPORT="A1;10,12,16" just gives me an ERROR back.

retifrav commented 4 years ago

@zs-stpa, if you are still looking for Catalina driver, here it is.

mattsson commented 4 years ago

@retifrav Awesome, thank you!

kate-is-great commented 3 years ago

I have also arrived in this dark place (Catalina). Directly after installing the device works (e.g., internet connection, can check it via 192.168.8.1, shows up in network connections). However, if I unplug and plug again it does not connect anymore.

/Library/Extensions/HuaweiDataCardDriver_10_9.kext is in place.

Right after the installation (when it works) it cannot find the device with $ ls -l /dev/tty.HUA* and hence I cannot complete the steps thereafter described above.

Any ideas? Have spent 8+ hours with Huawei Support, Apple Support...

retifrav commented 3 years ago

That sounds weird, it wouldn't be able to connect if driver wasn't working. Unplugging and plugging pack should not affect anything. I don't know what could be wrong here. Perhaps, try good-old reboot, if you haven't yet rebooted since installing the driver.

kate-is-great commented 3 years ago

Thanks for your quick feedback. It is weird. I did reboot and even cleared NVRAM and SMC. No success.

Is the linked version 6.00.06.00 the latest version of this or is there a newer one?

It is really amazing how this can be so damn hard. There must be 100 m of these things in use and a decent share with Catalina...

retifrav commented 3 years ago

These two drivers that I've uploaded here (one x32 for pre-Catalina and another x64 for Catalina) are the only ones I've got, I don't know if they had more updates since then. But given the Mac share among their users (I think it's super small), Huawei just doesn't care that much, I guess.

DnyaneshwarWagh commented 3 years ago

For macOS Big Sur (11.0.1) Refer

https://consumer.huawei.com/en/support/content/en-us15773565/

Instead of disabling master SIP you can disable partial SIP by using

csrutil enable --without kext

retifrav commented 3 years ago

Thank you for the information! Looks like the driver is the same (MobileConnectDriver.pkg from Mobile Partner.app contents, the size is equal), but apparently on Big Sur it now requires disabling SIP (or at least kext). Sadly, I couldn't test it in my VM (Parallels refuses to boot it in Recovery mode), so I'll have to wait till I get a physical machine with Big Sur.

DnyaneshwarWagh commented 3 years ago

I have tested Huawei E3276 on MacBook Pro with macOS Big Sur (11.1) and it is working. For Parallels recovery mode this might help you. https://kb.parallels.com/cn/116526

retifrav commented 3 years ago

Yeah, saw that one already, and a couple of other KBs and forum posts - nothing works: it either boots to regular mode or never boots at all. But it's good that you can confirm that modem and driver work fine on your machine with Big Sur.

joscelyn commented 3 years ago

Thanks for the sharing ! Tried with my E5372 on macOS Big Sur (11.1) by using the DnyaneshwarWagh link: kexts are installed but nothing in /dev/ and nothing in "Network"

DnyaneshwarWagh commented 3 years ago

Thanks for the sharing ! Tried with my E5372 on macOS Big Sur (11.1) by using the DnyaneshwarWagh link: kexts are installed but nothing in /dev/ and nothing in "Network"

  1. Disable SIP as explained in 'Driver Installation Guide for MAC 11_2.docx'
  2. After Every System Reboot, need to load kext by using following command. sudo kextload /Library/Extensions/HuaweiDataCardDriver_10_9.kext/Contents/PlugIns/*.kext
joscelyn commented 3 years ago

Thanks DnyaneshwarWagh. Even with that, nothing appends, it only prints: Executing: /usr/bin/kmutil load -p /Library/Extensions/HuaweiDataCardDriver_10_9.kext/Contents/PlugIns/HuaweiDataCardACMControl.kext -p /Library/Extensions/HuaweiDataCardDriver_10_9.kext/Contents/PlugIns/HuaweiDataCardACMData.kext -p /Library/Extensions/HuaweiDataCardDriver_10_9.kext/Contents/PlugIns/HuaweiDataCardDMM.kext -p /Library/Extensions/HuaweiDataCardDriver_10_9.kext/Contents/PlugIns/HuaweiDataCardECMControl.kext -p /Library/Extensions/HuaweiDataCardDriver_10_9.kext/Contents/PlugIns/HuaweiDataCardECMData.kext -p /Library/Extensions/HuaweiDataCardDriver_10_9.kext/Contents/PlugIns/HuaweiLogLevel.kext -p /Library/Extensions/HuaweiDataCardDriver_10_9.kext/Contents/PlugIns/MBBACMData.kext -p /Library/Extensions/HuaweiDataCardDriver_10_9.kext/Contents/PlugIns/MBBActivateDriver.kext -p /Library/Extensions/HuaweiDataCardDriver_10_9.kext/Contents/PlugIns/MBBEthernetData.kext

DnyaneshwarWagh commented 3 years ago

Thanks DnyaneshwarWagh. Even with that, nothing appends, it only prints: Executing: /usr/bin/kmutil load -p /Library/Extensions/HuaweiDataCardDriver_10_9.kext/Contents/PlugIns/HuaweiDataCardACMControl.kext -p /Library/Extensions/HuaweiDataCardDriver_10_9.kext/Contents/PlugIns/HuaweiDataCardACMData.kext -p /Library/Extensions/HuaweiDataCardDriver_10_9.kext/Contents/PlugIns/HuaweiDataCardDMM.kext -p /Library/Extensions/HuaweiDataCardDriver_10_9.kext/Contents/PlugIns/HuaweiDataCardECMControl.kext -p /Library/Extensions/HuaweiDataCardDriver_10_9.kext/Contents/PlugIns/HuaweiDataCardECMData.kext -p /Library/Extensions/HuaweiDataCardDriver_10_9.kext/Contents/PlugIns/HuaweiLogLevel.kext -p /Library/Extensions/HuaweiDataCardDriver_10_9.kext/Contents/PlugIns/MBBACMData.kext -p /Library/Extensions/HuaweiDataCardDriver_10_9.kext/Contents/PlugIns/MBBActivateDriver.kext -p /Library/Extensions/HuaweiDataCardDriver_10_9.kext/Contents/PlugIns/MBBEthernetData.kext

  1. Can you post output of csrutil status command.
  2. After sudo kextload /Library/Extensions/HuaweiDataCardDriver_10_9.kext/Contents/PlugIns/*.kext command, reconnect E5372, wait few seconds then execute ls -l /dev/tty.HUA*
joscelyn commented 3 years ago

It works ! I needed to unplug the modem, thanks DnyaneshwarWagh :)

driversat commented 3 years ago

works great on BigSur 11.1 hackintosh with opencore 0.6.4 after adding HuaweiDataCardDriver_10_9.kext to EFI/OC/Kext and injecting it to config.plist with opencore-configurator

OneWhiteSpirit commented 3 years ago

Is it work on arm64 with Rosetta on BigSur?

BIGmakus1980 commented 2 years ago

Hi, someone fixed the problems with this router after the recent Mac BigSur updates (10 / 11.2021)? My version is 11.2.3.

retifrav commented 2 years ago

Mac OS 11.2.3 is from March 2021, so it's not very recent. I currently have 11.6.1, and the modem is working fine there.

BIGmakus1980 commented 2 years ago

Mac OS 11.2.3 is from March 2021, so it's not very recent. I currently have 11.6.1, and the modem is working fine there.

Have you made any changes to SIP settings etc?

retifrav commented 2 years ago

Yes, and I described it in the post, you might have missed the latest update from 28.10.2021.

BIGmakus1980 commented 2 years ago

Thanks, I upgraded to 11.6.1 and did what I needed to do, but still something doesn't work...

Last login: Fri Nov 26 14:23:35 on ttys000 piotrsobkowiak@MacBook-Pro-Piotr ~ % ls -L1 /dev/tty.HUA* /dev/tty.HUAWEIMobile-Diag /dev/tty.HUAWEIMobile-Modem /dev/tty.HUAWEIMobile-Pcui piotrsobkowiak@MacBook-Pro-Piotr ~ % csrutil status System Integrity Protection status: unknown (Custom Configuration).

Configuration: Apple Internal: disabled Kext Signing: disabled Filesystem Protections: enabled Debugging Restrictions: enabled DTrace Restrictions: enabled NVRAM Protections: enabled BaseSystem Verification: enabled

This is an unsupported configuration, likely to break in the future and leave your machine in an unknown state. piotrsobkowiak@MacBook-Pro-Piotr ~ % sudo kextload /Library/Extensions/HuaweiDataCardDriver_10_9.kext/Contents/PlugIns/*.kext Executing: /usr/bin/kmutil load -p /Library/Extensions/HuaweiDataCardDriver_10_9.kext/Contents/PlugIns/HuaweiDataCardACMControl.kext -p /Library/Extensions/HuaweiDataCardDriver_10_9.kext/Contents/PlugIns/HuaweiDataCardACMData.kext -p /Library/Extensions/HuaweiDataCardDriver_10_9.kext/Contents/PlugIns/HuaweiDataCardDMM.kext -p /Library/Extensions/HuaweiDataCardDriver_10_9.kext/Contents/PlugIns/HuaweiDataCardECMControl.kext -p /Library/Extensions/HuaweiDataCardDriver_10_9.kext/Contents/PlugIns/HuaweiDataCardECMData.kext -p /Library/Extensions/HuaweiDataCardDriver_10_9.kext/Contents/PlugIns/HuaweiLogLevel.kext -p /Library/Extensions/HuaweiDataCardDriver_10_9.kext/Contents/PlugIns/MBBACMData.kext -p /Library/Extensions/HuaweiDataCardDriver_10_9.kext/Contents/PlugIns/MBBActivateDriver.kext -p /Library/Extensions/HuaweiDataCardDriver_10_9.kext/Contents/PlugIns/MBBEthernetData.kext Password: Executing: /usr/bin/kmutil load -p /Library/Extensions/HuaweiDataCardDriver_10_9.kext/Contents/PlugIns/HuaweiDataCardACMControl.kext -p /Library/Extensions/HuaweiDataCardDriver_10_9.kext/Contents/PlugIns/HuaweiDataCardACMData.kext -p /Library/Extensions/HuaweiDataCardDriver_10_9.kext/Contents/PlugIns/HuaweiDataCardDMM.kext -p /Library/Extensions/HuaweiDataCardDriver_10_9.kext/Contents/PlugIns/HuaweiDataCardECMControl.kext -p /Library/Extensions/HuaweiDataCardDriver_10_9.kext/Contents/PlugIns/HuaweiDataCardECMData.kext -p /Library/Extensions/HuaweiDataCardDriver_10_9.kext/Contents/PlugIns/HuaweiLogLevel.kext -p /Library/Extensions/HuaweiDataCardDriver_10_9.kext/Contents/PlugIns/MBBACMData.kext -p /Library/Extensions/HuaweiDataCardDriver_10_9.kext/Contents/PlugIns/MBBActivateDriver.kext -p /Library/Extensions/HuaweiDataCardDriver_10_9.kext/Contents/PlugIns/MBBEthernetData.kext zsh: command not found: Executing: piotrsobkowiak@MacBook-Pro-Piotr ~ %

retifrav commented 2 years ago

Can't say what could be wrong here, the only thing I can guess is that you seem to be running Zsh, while I am still using Bash, so I would suggest you to run this from Bash as well. Might be a silly idea, but that's the only guess I got.

Also just in case check that kmutil is available:

/usr/bin/kmutil --help
BIGmakus1980 commented 2 years ago

piotrsobkowiak@MacBook-Pro-Piotr ~ % /usr/bin/kmutil --help OVERVIEW: kmutil: KernelManagement Utility (KernelManagement_executables-102.120.15)

USAGE: kmutil

OPTIONS: -h, --help Show help information.

SUBCOMMANDS: create Create one or more new artifacts based on the arguments provided. load Load one or more extensions based on the arguments provided. unload Unload the named kexts and all personalities. log Display logging information about the KernelManagement subsystem. libraries Search for library kexts that define symbols needed for linking by a kernel extension. dumpstate Dumps kernelmanagerd(8) state for debugging inspect Inspect & display a kext collection's contents according to the options provided. clear-staging Clears all contents of the kext staging locations on the system configure-boot Configure custom boot object policy (recovery-mode only) find Find kexts available on the operating system. showloaded Show the loaded state of the extensions on the system, according to the options provided. trigger-panic-medic Delete and disable loading of third party kexts in order to safely boot into a target volume. (can only be triggered in Recovery mode) eg usage: kmutil trigger-panic-medic --volume-root /Volumes/<VolumeName> check Check the consistency of kext collections against each other and/or load information in-kernel. print-diagnostics Perform all possible tests on a specified kext, and indicate whether the kext is loadable.

See 'kmutil help ' for detailed help.