On Sunday, 24 July 2011
You know the part before the upgrade where they tell you to check all of your applications before you upgrade? Well, last night I decided that it would be a great idea to upgrade my Mac from Snow Leopard to Lion. Turns out that perhaps wasn’t so great an idea after all when my Huawei USB 3G modem dongle decided that it wasn’t going to work since it wasn’t relevant for the new 64-bit only kernel. Oops, I should have checked first. But it isn’t a complete disaster!
After frantically using Google to find a new driver to install and digging around the Huawei site trying to find a replacement driver I was getting to the point of doing some modifications to the com.apple.boot.plist file and restart my Mac with the i386 kernel instead of the x86-64 one that appears to now be the default.
After frantically using Google to find a new driver to install and digging around the Huawei site trying to find a replacement driver I was getting to the point of doing some modifications to the com.apple.boot.plist file and restart my Mac with the i386 kernel instead of the x86-64 one that appears to now be the default.
But I found a Gem.... After searching the darkest, deepest parts of the internet, I found what I needed, and now, I will tell you how to Install Mobile Broadband on OSX 10.7 - Lion
As I am a T-Mobile Customer, I will be using a T-Mobile E170 dongle, but this should work on any Huawei modem.
1) 1st, plug the dongle in to the Mac
2) Double Click 'T-Mobile Internet Manager'
3) Follow the on-screen instructions to install the manager
4) The T-Mobile Internet Manager will open & warn you the Device is disconnected. Ignore this & close the Manager.
5) Download THIS. It is the latest 64bit drivers from HUAWEI.
6) Install the huawei_universal_425_05.pkg
7) Restart the mac. When its back on, fire up the T-Mobile Manager & Hit connect :)
So if you’ve just upgraded to Lion and are trying to work out how to get your Huawei modem working properly with it, those instructions worked for me and I’m using it to write this post.
Thank you!!!!!!!!!!
OMG Thank You so much. I spent 7 hours looking for this. Huawei has bad customer suporte
Thank you very much all, and i'm glad I could help :)
Thanks for that - just thought I would check my dongle before a little trip away and started to get worried!
I found the perfect place for my needs. Contains wonderful and useful messages. And looking forward for next article.
Android development
Many many thanks.
I have tried a number of 'solutions' to the problem with my 3G dongle after upgrading to Lion (including the one offered by Vodafone). This is the first one to work.
You're a star.
I think this is a wonderful blog.Thanks for giving this valuable information.
Elizabeth
Mobile Broadband
It is running! Thanks
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Pretty good post. I just stumbled upon your blog and wanted to say that I have really enjoyed reading your blog posts. Any way I'll be subscribing to your feed and I hope you post again soon.
Point to point wifi
Hi, I tried this and my dongle still isn't being detected. Are there any more solutions to this problem?
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