o2 Mobile Broadband and Snow Leopard

[sparkyms]

If anyone, like me, experienced complete disaster after updating to Snow Leopard and their Mobile Broadband stopped working... I have a solution..

Firstly, unplug the dongle from the computer...

uninstall everything to do with the drivers you currently have:
/Applications/mobileconnect
/System/Library/Extensions/HuaweiDataCardDriver.kext
/Library/Modem Scripts/HUAWEI Mobile Connect - 3G Modem

Reboot your Mac.

Then go here:

http://blog.evandavey.com/2008/02/how-to-connect-huawei-e220-usb-modem.html and download and install the drivers...

Plug in the dongle and open up Network Preferences.
Hit the + and select HUAWEI MOBILE..
and enter the following info in the fields:
Configuration: Default
Tel Number: *99#
Account: o2bb
pass: password

hit apply and connect and all should be fixed!

 

[otis123]

my AT&T 3G modem is working fine with SL, but i can't get WWAN status to show up in the menu bar, i check the box, and it unchecks its self! would this fix that?

 

[sparkyms]

I've got absolutely no idea.

What network card/dongle are you using (i.e. manufacturer).. this fix will only work on Huawei cards/dongles.

 

[otis123]

its a sierra wireless usb mercury, so your fix won't work. Its really irritating that i could get it to work in 10.5 but not SL, i dont know how many bars i have!

 

[jeme]

can't get my Mercury connect USB to work at all in Snow Leopard. Unbelievable...

 

[NATO]

I was about to throw my O2 dongle out the window because I just couldn't get OS X to display the HUAWEI network interface until I realised I had my MacBook Pro set to boot with the 64-bit kernel. As soon as I switched back to the 32-bit kernel it worked immediately - the kext for the dongle obviously isn't 64-bit

So thanks to the OP for the helpful instructions and a piece of info for anyone else running the 64-bit kernel wondering why their mobile broadband dongle isn't working!

 

[AuroraProject]

For those with Sierra Wireless issues, try this:

http://blog.rosshollman.com/2009/09/get-usbconnect-mercury-to-work-with.html

 

[Rubyjones]

Could you tell me if this works if you have not already been using the broadband mobile. I have installed snow leopard and did not know this problem existed, since then i have bought an o2 dongle and cannot get it to work.

 

[Shuggyx]

If anyone, like me, experienced complete disaster after updating to Snow Leopard and their Mobile Broadband stopped working... I have a solution..

Firstly, unplug the dongle from the computer...

uninstall everything to do with the drivers you currently have:
/Applications/mobileconnect
/System/Library/Extensions/HuaweiDataCardDriver.kext
/Library/Modem Scripts/HUAWEI Mobile Connect - 3G Modem

Reboot your Mac.

Then go here:

http://blog.evandavey.com/2008/02/how-to-connect-huawei-e220-usb-modem.html and download and install the drivers...

Plug in the dongle and open up Network Preferences.
Hit the + and select HUAWEI MOBILE..
and enter the following info in the fields:
Configuration: Default
Tel Number: *99#
Account: o2bb
pass: password

hit apply and connect and all should be fixed!

Thanks SparkyMS, that sorted me out brilliantly. My issue was slightly different in that I had bought a new MacBook Pro running 10.6 after my old MacBook (10.4) was stolen. I found that the O2-supplied Huawei connection application wouldn't run at all. I didn't have to delete any files as they weren't there on my new machine, but the new drivers worked absolutely fine first time.

Thanks again - brilliant!