RM520N-GL T-Mobile / No IP / No Internet

Anyone got any idea of why I'm not getting an internet connection even though the modem is connected?

Freshly factory reset GL-AXT1800
RM52N-GL freshly flashed but I have noticed that reflashing does reset the configuration. I also tried AT&F0.
Connected via an M.2 to USB.
Works just fine in Windows.

Modem debug export:

{
"msgs": [
{
"cmd": "AT",
"result": "\r\nOK\r\n"
},
{
"cmd": "ATI",
"result": "\r\nQuectel\r\nRM520N-GL\r\nRevision: RM520NGLAAR03A04M4G\r\n\r\nOK\r\n"
},
{
"cmd": "AT+GMI",
"result": "\r\nQuectel\r\n\r\nOK\r\n"
},
{
"cmd": "AT+CIMI",
"result": "\r\n31026003815####\r\n\r\nOK\r\n"
},
{
"cmd": "AT+CPIN?",
"result": "\r\n+CPIN: READY\r\n\r\nOK\r\n"
},
{
"cmd": "AT+CREG",
"result": "\r\nOK\r\n"
},
{
"cmd": "AT+CSQ",
"result": "\r\n+CSQ: 99,99\r\n\r\nOK\r\n"
},
{
"cmd": "AT+GSN",
"result": "\r\n35941478881####\r\n\r\nOK\r\n"
},
{
"cmd": "AT+COPS?",
"result": "\r\n+COPS: 0,0,"Metro by T-Mobile",11\r\n\r\nOK\r\n"
},
{
"cmd": "AT+QGMR",
"result": "\r\nRM520NGLAAR03A04M4G_01.202.01.202\r\n\r\nOK\r\n"
},
{
"cmd": "AT+QMBNCFG="list"",
"result": "\r\n+QMBNCFG: "List",0,1,1,"Commercial-TMO",0x0A01050F,202402061\r\n+QMBNCFG: "List",1,0,0,"TEF_Spain_Commercial",0x0A010C00,202302071\r\n+QMBNCFG: "List",2,0,0,"FirstNet",0x0A015300,202206171\r\n+QMBNCFG: "List",3,0,0,"Rogers_Canada",0x0A014800,202303141\r\n+QMBNCFG: "List",4,0,0,"Bell_Canada",0x0A014700,202111051\r\n+QMBNCFG: "List",5,0,0,"Telus_Jasper_Canada",0x0A01F900,202304281\r\n+QMBNCFG: "List",6,0,0,"Telus_Consumer_Canada",0x0A01FA00,202304281\r\n+QMBNCFG: "List",7,0,0,"Commercial-Sprint",0x0A010204,202111051\r\n+QMBNCFG: "List",8,0,0,"VoLTE-ATT",0x0A010335,202206171\r\n+QMBNCFG: "List",9,0,0,"CDMAless_Private-Verizon",0x0A01FD28,202304271\r\n+QMBNCFG: "List",10,0,0,"CDMAless-Verizon",0x0A010126,202304251\r\n+QMBNCFG: "List",11,0,0,"Swiss-Comm",0x0A010411,202304261\r\n+QMBNCFG: "List",12,0,0,"Telia_Sweden",0x0A012400,202111051\r\n+QMBNCFG: "List",13,0,0,"TIM_Italy_Commercial",0x0A012B00,202111051\r\n+QMBNCFG: "List",14,0,0,"France-Commercial-Orange",0x0A010B21,202401081\r\n+QMBNCFG: "List",15,0,0,"Commercial-DT-VOLTE",0x0A011F1F,202403221\r\n+QMBNCFG: "List",16,0,0,"Germany-VoLTE-Vodafone",0x0A010449,202401201\r\n+QMBNCFG: "List",17,0,0,"UK-VoLTE-Vodafone",0x0A010426,202401201\r\n+QMBNCFG: "List",18,0,0,"Commercial-EE",0x0A01220B,202403131\r\n+QMBNCFG: "List",19,0,0,"Optus_Australia_Commercial",0x0A014400,202111051\r\n+QMBNCFG: "List",20,0,0,"Telstra_Australia_Commercial",0x0A010F00,202311071\r\n+QMBNCFG: "List",21,0,0,"Commercial-LGU",0x0A012608,202111051\r\n+QMBNCFG: "List",22,0,0,"Commercial-KT",0x0A01280B,202308031\r\n+QMBNCFG: "List",23,0,0,"Commercial-SKT",0x0A01270A,202111051\r\n+QMBNCFG: "List",24,0,0,"Commercial-Reliance",0x0A011B0C,202210211\r\n+QMBNCFG: "List",25,0,0,"Commercial-SBM",0x0A011C0B,202407111\r\n+QMBNCFG: "List",26,0,0,"Commercial-KDDI",0x0A010709,202401191\r\n+QMBNCFG: "List",27,0,0,"Commercial-DCM",0x0A010D0D,202312201\r\n+QMBNCFG: "List",28,0,0,"VoLTE-CU",0x0A011561,202310181\r\n+QMBNCFG: "List",29,0,0,"VoLTE_OPNMKT_CT",0x0A0113E0,202312141\r\n+QMBNCFG: "List",30,0,0,"Volte_OpenMkt-Commercial-CMCC",0x0A012010,202209221\r\n+QMBNCFG: "List",31,0,0,"ROW_Commercial",0x0A010809,202401151\r\n\r\nOK\r\n"
},
{
"cmd": "AT+QENG="servingcell"",
"result": "\r\n+QENG: "servingcell","NOCONN","NR5G-SA","TDD",310,260,18912212E,437,844500,501390,41,12,-105,-12,3,1,12\r\n\r\nOK\r\n"
},
{
"cmd": "AT+QENG="neighbourcell"",
"result": "\r\nOK\r\n"
},
{
"cmd": "AT+QCFG="usbnet"",
"result": "\r\n+QCFG: "usbnet",0\r\n\r\nOK\r\n"
},
{
"cmd": "AT+QNWPREFCFG="mode_pref"",
"result": "\r\n+QNWPREFCFG: "mode_pref",LTE:NR5G\r\n\r\nOK\r\n"
},
{
"cmd": "AT+QNWPREFCFG="nsa_nr5g_band"",
"result": "\r\n+QNWPREFCFG: "nsa_nr5g_band",1:2:3:5:7:8:12:13:14:18:20:25:26:28:29:30:38:40:41:48:66:70:71:75:76:77:78:79\r\n\r\nOK\r\n"
},
{
"cmd": "AT+QCFG="pcie/mode"",
"result": "\r\n+QCFG: "pcie/mode",1\r\n\r\nOK\r\n"
},
{
"cmd": "AT+QCFG="data_interface"",
"result": "\r\n+QCFG: "data_interface",1,0\r\n\r\nOK\r\n"
},
{
"cmd": "AT+QCAINFO",
"result": "\r\n+QCAINFO: "PCC",501390,12,"NR5G BAND 41",437\r\n\r\nOK\r\n"
},
{
"cmd": "AT+CEREG?",
"result": "\r\n+CEREG: 0,0\r\n\r\nOK\r\n"
}
]
}

ifconfig --View the network port name generated by the modem

ping www.google.com -I wwan0
wwan0 is mine, yours may not be, please change it yourself

I do not understand what you are telling me to change and now it's doing this which makes no sense at all:

ifconfig shows nothing for wwan.

Th sim card is installed and after a few reboots it will detect it. I think I have a bad modem and/or carrier card.

I dont think this helps but as you can see, no wwna

root@GL-AXT1800:~# ifconfig
br-lan Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 94:83:C4:4D:6C:EB
inet addr:192.168.8.1 Bcast:192.168.8.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:4224 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:2569 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:440909 (430.5 KiB) TX bytes:898702 (877.6 KiB)

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 94:83:C4:4D:6C:EA
inet6 addr: fe80::9683:c4ff:fe4d:6cea/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:113 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:34782 (33.9 KiB)
Base address:0x1000

eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 94:83:C4:4D:6C:EB
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
Base address:0x1200

eth2 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 94:83:C4:4D:6C:EB
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
Base address:0x1400

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:65536 Metric:1
RX packets:742 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:742 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1
RX bytes:47785 (46.6 KiB) TX bytes:47785 (46.6 KiB)

wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 7E:FC:06:52:04:49
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:4226 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:3297 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:4096
RX bytes:500501 (488.7 KiB) TX bytes:1034203 (1009.9 KiB)

wlan1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 8E:E5:30:36:0E:B7
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:528 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:4096
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:72481 (70.7 KiB)

root@GL-AXT1800:~#

Try ifconfig -a

wwan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr EA:B0:B8:DF:CA:C8
BROADCAST NOARP MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

There is no ethernet plugged in, not sure where that came from, is the modem may be in the wrong mode?

Thank you for your help BTW!

Would you please post the entire output of ifconfig -a?

ApNos-aa519665-devel
OpenWrt 21.02-SNAPSHOT, r16399+171-c67509efd7

root@GL-AXT1800:~# ifconfig -a
bond0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr C6:0A:85:15:5A:E5
BROADCAST MASTER MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

br-lan Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 94:83:C4:4D:6C:EB
inet addr:192.168.8.1 Bcast:192.168.8.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:5702 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:4303 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:596940 (582.9 KiB) TX bytes:1151494 (1.0 MiB)

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 94:83:C4:4D:6C:EA
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:162 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:51736 (50.5 KiB)
Base address:0x1000

eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 94:83:C4:4D:6C:EB
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
Base address:0x1200

eth2 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 94:83:C4:4D:6C:EB
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
Base address:0x1400

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:65536 Metric:1
RX packets:3212 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:3212 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1
RX bytes:213025 (208.0 KiB) TX bytes:213025 (208.0 KiB)

wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 7E:FC:06:52:04:49
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:5706 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:5331 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:4096
RX bytes:677680 (661.7 KiB) TX bytes:1375216 (1.3 MiB)

wlan1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 8E:E5:30:36:0E:B7
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:1417 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:4096
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:162064 (158.2 KiB)

wwan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr EA:B0:B8:DF:CA:C8
BROADCAST NOARP MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

root@GL-AXT1800:~#

Ok, just wanted to make sure there were no other interfaces that might be down or odd.

Uhg, palm to forehead, was the wrong APN. 3 days flushed because I did not notice the APN was set to T-Mobile, not Metro by T-Mobile: fast.metropcs.com I set the TTL and all that jazz but it wasn't clicking that they have different APNs.