Hi Folks,

I picked up an N810 WE from ebay and have been tinkering with it to see if Wimax will work.

Clearwire recently expanded to the Austin area however speaking with the Clearwire rep... the service here is "Clear" which is not same as "Clearwire" or "Xohm" as available in other cities...

Anyways, the connectivty UI doesnt pickup any Wimax SSIDs in my area... I messed around w/ the cli and noticed a file called /etc/wimax.conf with a bunch of configs labled NorthAmerica_somenumber plans. Many of them were commented out, so I uncommented them all, rebooted and tried scanning for SSIDs... no luck.

Next I found a script called /usr/sbin/wimax-start.. that seemd to rely on iwtool which used a different conf file ie /etc/iwtool.ini so i tinkered with that a bit....

Long story short, by copying the configs from /etc/wimax.conf into /etc/iwtool.ini and modifying /etc/wimax/network.conf and setting the NAI to {sm=1}mywimaxmac@clearwire-wmx.net and then running wimax-start... i was able to get wimax to connect!

Howewver... the connectivity widget in the UI has now clue that this is going on... so it continues to think there is no connection...

Hence I can ping ips etc from the cmdline but nada from the UI... I did manage to hack it but connecting to a wifi access point, then connecting to wimax from the cli and then editing the route table to route everything via the wimax nic... however this is not a viable option as it requires wifi connectivity at least momentarily to be functional...

I would apprciate if any one can point me in the right direction from here...

I can see two possible paths to puruse:

1. figure out the DBUS calls to the connectivty layer (ICD2?) and after wimax-start finishes... make a dbus call that tells the UI that wimax is ready to go.

2. somehow fix /etc/wimax.conf such that ICD2 (which according to comments in that file is the consumer) works and wimax-start is not needed but rather it uses wimax-promotion? or wimaxd? to work.