Mac OSX 10.6 Snow Leopard and EVDO: will it blend?

n6mod · EVDO Newbie Joined: 21 Feb 2007 Posts: 1

While the built-in support in 10.6 is very nice, the problem remains that every time you insert the U760 (reportedly U727 as well), it mounts the installer image. You have to eject the installer image before the device will be recognized by the system as a WWAN card.

There's a relatively simple solution to this using Pacifist. What we're about to do is install only the extension that supresses mounting the installer image, without any of the rest of the Sprint/Novatel software.

1. Insert the U760 and wait for the Sprint SmartView image to mount.
2. Launch Pacifist, and open the Installer.mpkg
3. In 'Contents of 3G_Drivers_v2.2.8-PS.pkg', select NovatelWirelessFilter.kext and click Install in the toolbar.
4. Reboot

I've only tested this with my Sprint U760, but it's based on a method a colleague found for his Sprint U727. As that's a Novatel .kext, I suspect the same will apply to Novatel modems on Verizon

PS:
If you want to skip the reboot, you can eject the SmartView image and utter the following chant in terminal:

daddyto9 · EVDO Newbie Joined: 12 Sep 2009 Posts: 3

Jamus, I have tried to follow your instructions to the letter, however I don't know what to do with the script. in your video the script looks like a black icon almost like a .exe file, on my desktop the postflight.sh looks like a sheet of paper, did I do something wrong? when i open terminal, I can cd ~/desktop but i cant sudo bash postflight. it says no such directory, like I said, it may have something to do with the fact that I have no idea what i'm doing. could you please dumb it down a little? also, what it run it as a superuser mean?? and how do I run the script??

daddyto9 · EVDO Newbie Joined: 12 Sep 2009 Posts: 3

Jamus, you seem very knowledgeable, and I admired your information (both, the video & the script?) I tried to follow your instruction to the letter, but i have encountered the following trouble:

I did everything you suggested,

I alt + clicked the script, it downloaded and I moved it to the desktop it is different from the icon in your video. In your video it appeared as a dark gray icon as if it were a windows .exe file (please excuse my ignorance, I am new to both Mac and EVDO) however on my desktop it looks like a sheet of paper and it is "postflight.sh" anyway, when I ran the installer, I was able to keep up with the video, until I got to the second line. I was able to
"cd ~/desktop", the when I typed in " sudo bash postflight " it said no such file or directory. I suspect this has something to do with the script. Perhaps I am not executing it, or formatting it properly. Could you please explain what I am doing wrong? How do I turn the postflight.sh into the right file like your icon in the video? Thanks in advance.

mrogers641 · EVDO Newbie Joined: 10 Sep 2009 Posts: 1 Location: MO

I went to the VZ site and check for SL software for my USB 720 but no joy. However, they did update the USB 760. Does this mean I need to upgrade to the 760 because SL won't support my older 720 or does it mean I'm fine the way I am?

Alex · Posted: Tue Sep 15, 2009 9:26 am Post subject: Re: VZ USB 720 and SL

jamus · EVDO User Joined: 24 Oct 2006 Posts: 34

daddyto9 · EVDO Newbie Joined: 12 Sep 2009 Posts: 3

Thank you so much. Your instructions worked like a charm! Now if I could only improve my connection speed, the speedtest.net results were a sad 0.10mbps average Sad

Nevertheless, Thank you for helping me out.

dballing · EVDO Newbie Joined: 16 Sep 2009 Posts: 1

I have a Verizon Wireless V740 EVDO card. It works "great" out of the box using the built-in drivers (I upgraded from 10.5.x to 10.6.0 and now to 10.6.1).

However, what I've noticed is that, every so often, my EVDO card will just drop. Worse, something dies deep inside my Mac and I have to power-cycle it (well, reboot probably) to get it functional again...

/var/log/system.log shows:

im_electronic · Posted: Fri Sep 18, 2009 8:23 pm Post subject:

I posted it somewhere else here too, for sprint and my 598U I just installed the SSV app on 10.6, took care of the TRU-Install mounting, but app doesn't work, apples WWAN does.

chadderboxer · EVDO Newbie Joined: 24 Sep 2009 Posts: 1

First, thanks for the help. I've tried your method of resolving the A600 issue for Cricket, and definitely made progress. That said, when it's go time, launching from the Cricket Broadband application goes from "Dialing" immediately to a "Disconnected" state. Any ideas? I've followed the same steps and have the same output prior to that final moment of truth.

Alex

Sprint Smartview is now Snow Leopard compatible:

http://www.evdoforums.com/thread12674.html
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svmodica · EVDO Newbie Joined: 03 Oct 2009 Posts: 1

You have to bring it up on windows first with the verizon software. Then it updates firmware and tower map and it's happy. It came right up on my mac with the UM175 software for the older panatek

osxfr33k · EVDO Newbie Joined: 16 Nov 2009 Posts: 1

Jamus I ran the script and followed exactly as the youtube shows it. Get the usual Terminal warnings etc just as your youtube shows it.

My device is still not seen?

I am on a hackentosh Dell Laptop XPS M1530 but its 100% clone but running an Chameleon EFI. Could the difference in the booloader and or EFI be the issue?

I have no issues with any other devices such as USB wireless or just USB period.

It mounts fine but I don't get the network preferences new connection at all.

Any other ideas?

jamus · EVDO User Joined: 24 Oct 2006 Posts: 34