1. Introduction
1.1 Orderable Part Numbers
Orderable Device
Description
Carrier
Network
Type
NL-SW-LTE-WM14
Skywire CAT1 LTE GSM
AT&T/T-Mobile
LTE
NL-SW-LTE-WM14-B
Skywire CAT1 LTE GSM
AT&T/T-Mobile
LTE
NL-SW-LTE-WM14-C
Skywire CAT1 LTE GSM
AT&T/T-Mobile
LTE
NL-AB-BBBC
Skywire BeagleBone Black Cape
Any
Any
1.2 Overview
The Skywire® CAT1 LTE modem supports CDC_ETHER, an Ethernet over USB
protocol that allows for an easy data connection. This application note provides a
working example of setting up the CDC_ETHER connection on a BeagleBone Black.
1.3 A Note on CDC_ETHER
For CDC_ETHER to work, the Linux kernel needs to have support for the CDC_ETHER
USB device class built in. If it does, then when the modem is connected via USB, an
ethernet device will simply appear (usually as “eth1”, “eth2”, etc.). If it does not appear,
then chances are the Linux kernel version you have does not support CDC_ETHER.
1.4 Testing
This procedure was tested on the following OSs and hardware:
Hardware
BeagleBone Black Rev. 3
Operating Systems
Debian 8.6 (Kernel 4.4.36-ti-r72)
PN 30262 rev 4
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