Poor man Yes4G Huddle.

Yes4g Huddle is bloody pricey . Anything that is more then RM300  is expensive in my own devices pricing schema … I do not know what’s the justification for that kind of price.

As a poor Malaysian living in a terrible times. What should I do? Relying on Facebook/KingJason/Politician  Photoshop/news is not going to help . Time to start our simple hacks!

Hardware Requirement

1. One Unit Raspberry Pi

2. Yes Go Dongle

3. TP Link MR3040 Portable 3G/4G Router  configurable as our wifi broadcaster + portable powerbank

4. 8GB Sdcard

5. RJ-45 cable .

6.  A Micro-Usb cabled to power up the USB Pi.

Software Requirement

1. Arch Linux as the OS

2. gctwimax  driver^[1]

3. dnsmasq

4. iptables rules

Instruction ..

1. Copy  Arch Linux ARM image to our sdcard … If you are using Windows . you can use Fedora ARM Installer.
^[2]

2. Compile gctwimax should be easy 

3. configure dnsmasq.. Quite easy in my case 4 lines .only

no-resolv
bind-interfaces
interface=eth0
dhcp-range= 192.168.150.10,192.168.150.100

U might also need to actually set the eth0 static on next boot. this can be accomplished by changing /etc/netctl/eth0 to  static and give it 192.168.150.1

4. sysctl net.ipv4.ip_forward =1 

5. Create two  systemd scripts seperately. First script is to lauch gctwimax code so that it will give us wimax0.. 

gctwimax will read configuration from /usr/share/gctwimax/gctwimax.conf like this

gctwimax -C /usr/share/gctwimax/gctwimax.conf

U need to change the following config to this config below

cert_nv=0

anonymous_identity=”RANDOM@yes.my”

username=”yourownusername@yes.my”

password=”yourownpassword”

6. Second script is to load dnsmasq configuration. We also need to add an iptables rule to forward all our request to wimax0. This can be accomplished by MASQUERADE it.

iptabes -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o wimax0 -j MASQUERADE.

6. Configure TP-LINk Portable router into a WAN Mode.

7.  You are ready.!!!

How much does this  cost compared to Yes Huddle?

Yes Huddle~RM399

Feeling~ Crap

Mine:

• Raspberry Pi ~ RM110
• YesGo ~ RM40
• TP-LINK MR3020 ~ RM99
• Random SD card class10 ~RM16
• Awesomeness ~ Priceless
• Total=  RM265
• Saved= RM134
• And we have HDMI output how f**&U* cool is dat?

Screenshots of success .

wimax0 is up and working correctly.

Infinite power cycle (Kididng)

Working perfectly at our secret mapley.

Rooms for improvement.

• Getting a good nano wifi card to setup as a hotspot.. Cables are messy.
• Implementing 16×2 LCD for lulz.
• Understanding conditional systemd. I miss sys-v/init but hey systemd is not dat bad in fact it’s easier.

I’ve already make a plain backup images but unfortunately the size of my backup image is 8GB which is quite big. I`m uploading it at mega. Once finished i update the links to my image here.

Cheers for No4G..

Update:

Here’s the link for my image archlinuxyes4g.bin^[3]

References

1. ^{^} gctwimax  driver (code.google.com)
2. ^{^} Fedora ARM Installer (fedoraproject.org)
3. ^{^} archlinuxyes4g.bin (mega.co.nz)

Sumber: http://y0nd13.blogspot.com

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