OpenWRT with Huawei E367 and TP-Link TL-WR1043ND

The ability to connect a 3G modem to a wireless router to form a Internet connected ad-hoc network of machines is very powerful. I’ve done this many times and have written about it before (e.g., see my OpenWRT writeup page) but I recently did it with modern hardware again. Here I will use the TP-Link TL-WR1043ND wireless router (available here for around $50) together with the Huawei E367 3G UMTS/HSDPA modem. Other wireless routers and modem should work fine. The software is OpenWRT 10.03 although I hope to redo this with LibreWRT eventually. My writeup is mostly focused around what is happening around the prompt, so it is mostly a cut’n’paste terminal session with a comment interlined.

TL-WR1043ND and Huawei 367
Router and modem

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OpenWRT 10.03 “Backfire”

Earlier I have written about OpenWRT configuration for two routers in a home network and OpenWRT configuration for 3G dial-up (which succeeded my summerhouse OpenWRT writeup) before. The OpenWRT project recently announced a new release, OpenWRT 10.03 Backfire. Thus, this appeared like a good opportunity to wipe out the old configurations on my routers and rewrite the articles using the latest software. I have two articles: