Philip Oakley's blog » Mac http://philipoakley.org Philip Oakley's Blog - Open Source and Web mostly Sun, 05 Feb 2012 11:28:31 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Huawei T-Mobile Dongle support in Mac OSX 10.5+ Snow/Leopard http://philipoakley.org/2009/09/27/mac/huawei-t-mobile-dongle-support-in-mac-osx-10-5-snowleopard/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=huawei-t-mobile-dongle-support-in-mac-osx-10-5-snowleopard http://philipoakley.org/2009/09/27/mac/huawei-t-mobile-dongle-support-in-mac-osx-10-5-snowleopard/#comments Sun, 27 Sep 2009 21:13:35 +0000 Phil http://philipoakley.org/?p=309

Dongle
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I have a Huawei 3G Dongle from T-Mobile. I got this one mainly because it had cross platform support and would work for all of my machines – Ubuntu Linux, Apple Mac and Windows, I have recently upgraded my Macbook from Tiger OSX 10.4 to Snow Leopard OSX 10.6. The upgrade went smoothly enough and until now I have had no issues with it but today found that the T-Mobile web n walk software does now not work (actually from looking around it did not work properly under Leopard OSX 10.5 either).

After  a little searching I can came across this excellent post from Ben Vallak

Quoting from Ben’s post follow these instructions to get it working:

  1. Plug the Web ‘n’ Walk stick into your mac.
  2. Open System Preferences and then ‘Network’
  3. You should see a message about new connection devices (I think two are added for some reason: ‘DIAG’ and ‘HUAWEI Mobile’)
  4. Select the ‘HUAWEI Mobile’ device in the left column
  5. Enter *99# into ‘Telephone Number’
  6. Click ‘Apply’ and then ‘Connect’
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