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[ssimon]

I was poking around in the 10.4.8 (8L2127) Jas install w/ 8.8.1 kernel, on my ThinkPad T60p, and under System Profiler I looked at recognized hardware. Going to the Hardware/USB section I noticed that OSX is recognizing my miniPCIExpress Sierra Wirelesss EvDO card under USB devices as "Sierra Wireless MC5720 Modem"!!!

Here is the info reported by System Profiler under Hardware/USB Bus:

Version: 0.01
Bus Power(mA): 500
Speed: Up to 12 Mb/sec
Manufacturer: Sierra Wireless
Product ID: 0x0218
Vendor ID: 0x1199

For it to be visibe/enabled, you must 1st press Fn+F5 and the Bluetooth and WWAN lights will go on. WWAN light will go out, but it will still be ON

There is an Apple OSX Sierra Wireless program for the 595 cards HERE who's windows counterpart works great with the MC5720 card. Alas, even though it installs correctly it seems unable to find the card as it is looking for PCMCIA devices.

Since the card is obviously recognized I am wondering if an enterprising OSX expert might not be able to "point" the utility in the right direction or maybe make OSX see it natively in the Networking Utility...

Any ideas/solutions?

Edited by ssimon, 03 April 2007 - 03:56 AM.

[ssimon]

Someone / Anyone?

[nonlucent]

Someone / Anyone?

Same situation here... done some research and the chipset is a Qualcomm MSM6500

productid 0x0218
vendorid 0x1199

I've tryed putting these in /System/Library/Extensions/SMSIWirelessUSB.kext/Contents/Info.plist for the Kyocera KCP650 entry (supposedly uses the same chipset), but no luck... then again the Kyocera is PCMCIA and I don't have that working (anyone know what type of PCMCIA controller is in the z61t?) I believe the IBM card is on the PCI-X bus so my thought is that it just can't work so easily... I will keep trying though.

If anyone knows of other cards with builtin driver support in OS X (or patches?) using MSM6500 chipset, especially if a PCI-X card, please let me know and I will try modifying those entries...

Thanks for any help.

** 10.8.4 JAS PPF1 semthex ** IBM z61t FRU 9442-AZ6 **

[steadybootleggin]

same here ... app runs fine but, it can't find device and sys. profiler list it... verizon usb720.. any help please!!!

[steadybootleggin]

i actually got it working ... i don't know how but , it is working..... i will say this , it started to work right after i finally got my sound going( noob that i am ) ???????

[ssimon]

What App are you using? What changes did you make?

Can you please let us know?

Thanks!

[durpan]

Hi...some thread for my DeLL WWAN 5520?!
It's on a DeLL XPS M1210 and a KalyWay 10.5.1
Shown in SystemProfiler as:

Novatel Wireless HSDPA Modem:

Version: 0.00
Bus Power (mA): 500
Speed: Up to 12 Mb/sec
Manufacturer: Novatel Wireless
Product ID: 0x8137
Serial Number: Novatel Wireless HSDPA Modem
Vendor ID: 0x413c



Thanks