Mac OS X Leopard 10.5 and EVDO Card Support

Michael

Mac OS X Leopard 10.5 will be available next month.

This thread will discuss EVDO Card compatibility with Leopard.

Before upgrading to Mac OS X 10.5, please visit this thread to see if your card is supported. OR, check this thread, as it looks like Apple will be adding support for additional cards?

Like they did with 10.4.7 and WWAN drivers support

There many be compatibility issues or perhaps none.

More info in the coming weeks to be posted.
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Michael · Posted: Wed Sep 26, 2007 7:03 am Post subject:

Looks like Leopard (10.5) will have the following built-in EVDO / HSDPA support:

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Michael · Posted: Tue Oct 16, 2007 10:32 pm Post subject:

Looks like Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard will be shipping October 26th.

We will have be testing different cards after Leopard ships.
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editor1 · EVDO User Joined: 26 Jan 2007 Posts: 81

Thanks, mods, for getting this thread up. I am hopeful that Leopard has good support for EVDO and will make the decision to upgrade at least partly on that basis.

Michael · Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2007 8:19 pm Post subject:

We have 3 people here 'playing' with Leopard over the coming days and we plan on testing all cards from Verizon & Sprint and have a better idea on compatibility.
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Michael · Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2007 8:45 pm Post subject:

By the way, if anyone does some early reporting on success/failure, please include:

- did you do a clean install of Mac OS X 10.5 or an upgrade (<- very important)

- Make & Model Mac you used

- Card tested

- Used Native 10.5 WWAN drivers or Verizon VZAccess Manager version or manufacturer connection software.
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Tom Peterson · EVDO Newbie Joined: 12 Jun 2005 Posts: 5

I just installed Mac OS 10.5 on my PowerBook G4 with a Verizon USB 727 REV "A" EVDO modem, and so far so good.

500 +/- down 500+/- up using WWAN modem script.

Jager · EVDO Newbie Joined: 20 Jun 2007 Posts: 4

Just finished installing Leopard (upgrade) on my MacBook Pro, using a Verizon (Novatel) V740. Upon completing the install my card no longer worked. Ended up having to go into Network Preferences and deleting the several old Novatel CDMA port definitions there. Then re-booting prompted a fresh reconfiguration of the Novatel card. Worked fine after that. But...

interestingly, the icon in the menu bar at the top has changed. It no longer has the inside-out umbrella on the left side, nor the dual-paragraph thingies on the right side that indicate a connection. The actual icon selections, when you click on it (Turn Card Off, Connect/Disconnect, About Verizon Card, Open Network Preferences), are the same.

Now off to take a look at the rest of Leopard...

Jeff

Tom Peterson · EVDO Newbie Joined: 12 Jun 2005 Posts: 5

I just changed my Modem pref's for my Verizon USB 727 in Leopard to

Vendor: Other

Model: EVDO Support

1800 down
350 up

opg4759 · EVDO User Joined: 06 Dec 2006 Posts: 36

Success

Upgrade from 10.4.10

macbook pro 2.16 2gig ram

Sprint U727

Novatel - EVDO support

I"m not getting the signal strength bars like I had in 10.4.10 also I have to go in to network setting to connect/ disconnect

Speeds are the same as before

Avg ping 92 870 - 1200 Down 500-600 up

Michael · Posted: Sat Oct 27, 2007 10:33 pm Post subject:

We are putting together some notes on all the different devices.

Briefly....

No problems with Sprint EX720 and Verizon V740 ExpressCards (Apple WWAN driver recognized and we see signal strength)

USB727/U727 - works with proper drivers and changing some settings (No WWAN Driver support)

U720/USB720 - works with proper drivers and changing some settings (No WWAN Driver support - previously HAD WWAN driver support, other techs here will confirm if they are seeing the same thing).

Franklin CDU-680. Some issues. We had to re-install Franklin Installer and change some settings. We are putting together a Leopard 10.5 Setup Guide for our customers. Wait until we have this available BEFORE installing 10.5.

Problems with VZAccess Manager recognizing any devices, however, this may not be too big a problem.

We are finishing our testing with AC597E / AC595 and others...

Here are speeds we got with a Sprint EX720 with 10.5 with 3 our of 5 bars of service:

Here is the native Leopard WWAN icon support that you will see in the menu bar:

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Joel Schmidt · EVDO User Joined: 30 Jan 2007 Posts: 38

Michael · Posted: Sat Oct 27, 2007 11:22 pm Post subject:

Joel Schmidt · EVDO User Joined: 30 Jan 2007 Posts: 38

jackrodgers · EVDO Addict Joined: 23 Mar 2006 Posts: 1131

If you do a clean install, Apple's WWAN items are there to be used but there is no port setup for the modem. When you insert the card, Apple's software should begin to install the port for you. I may be incorrect a bit if you are required to install the WWAN software separately rather than Leopard doing it automatically.

There are two icons you may see, the tower with 4 bars and the telephone with the 2 dots. The telephone icon will not appear unless you select the option to show it.

If you prefer the telco software, it will not be installed and you will have to use its cd.