Poor man Tablet Wimax Yes 4G... (Probably the first one in Malaysia)

Note: Just because i criticized YES services, doesn’t mean that I hate em. . In fact their network performance would make P(2-1) looks like pea one.. But there’s always room for improvement. After all real hacker  innovate , mutate, making bidaah hasanah for the greater good and fun.

After the PoC of turning your rasp pi into a fullblown Yes Zoom.^[1]  I just browse one day to see what the YTl/Yes Guys are up to.

It’s great they are giving free *(with conditional surrender/subscribtion)  tablet for 99 lucky people. However those tablet doesn`t come with a built-in WIMAX features which is a sad thing. We have 3g, 4g but meany capitalistic industrialist make Wimax as a foster child ..

So my favpurite guru poisoned me with the idea , make it work with tablet.

Hardware Requiremnet

1. Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 P7500

2. Yes4G Dongle

3. OTG cable with External Power (5V 2A) type explain later.

1. You can us any ROM that you like but my choice would be plain stock cynogen with tun enabled and also access to libusb. This is important as gctwimax driver require user space.

2. According to OTG 1.0^[2] specification the device  plugged in are using current between  8ma to 100mA . It couldn`t drive more power due to design/current limit (*on nexus 7 it’s the kernel)  … And unfortunely Yes4G Dongle use at least 500mA . We can verified this by going to Device Manager and check the power.

3. So yeah we need an OTG cable with extra power. a simple powerbank should be sufficient.

4. I`m using linuxonandroid ^[3]to ease the development . Compiling gctwimax is straightforward once u chroot into it.. but problem occured  when you try to run the gctwimax dialer.

5. The solution that i used is a very one hell bad hack.

$bbox mount –bind /dev/bus $mount/dev/bus

$bbox mknod  $mnt/dev/net/tun c 10 200

6. You also need to run dhcpd wimax0 outside of the chroot enviroment. If nesscary dns server can be set using setprop command.. If everything goes well!! Congratulation  u r one of the luckiest bast&^d using wimax on a tablet natively.

Everything works perfectly. U can see Wifi is turned off and of course i didn`t have any sim card.

USB Device are detected correctly and Intepret correctly as a Modem instead of Mass Storage.

IP are being deligated properly.

Yeap it’s working..

P/S: This is probably the first Tablet with Yes4G powered natively in Malaysia. Can someone submit it to the Malaysia book of Record (Do we still have that crap? ) Lolz.

List To DO:

1. Make this thing cleaner.

2. Using ScriptManager to automate stuff.

References

1. ^{^} PoC of turning your rasp pi into a fullblown Yes Zoom. (y0nd13.blogspot.com)
2. ^{^} OTG 1.0 (www.usb.org)
3. ^{^} linuxonandroid (linuxonandroid.org)

Sumber: http://y0nd13.blogspot.com

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