CellC USB modem & Apple macs?

[clasqm]

What the topic says. Anyone managed to get an EDGE/GPRS connection going on a recent Apple computer running OSX, using one of these modems?

The marketing droids on 140 get no further than "Yahhh ... it will work". I'd like something more specific before I lay down the moolah.

Ta in advance
clasqm

 

[C for yourself]

Hi clasqm

Although the Cell C mobile USB modem is only shipped with drivers for Windows. The manufacturers, Thetalogix, have available drivers for both Apple and Linux.

Please request the Apple drivers directly from the manufacturer. This can be done via their website http://www.thetalogix.com/. Please use the the "Support -> Ask us a question" section to make the request.

Cheers

C for yourself

 

[clasqm]

Well, I took C for yourself's advice (thanks) and requested drivers from thetalogix. Two weeks later, and not a peep from them.

Oh well, there's always iBurst.

 

[C for yourself]

Hi Clasqm

I'm really sorry to hear that Thetalogix have not contacted you. Please can you PM me an email address I'll get them through to you.

Cheers

C for yourself

 

[rehd]

Hi Clasqm

I'm really sorry to hear that Thetalogix have not contacted you. Please can you PM me an email address I'll get them through to you.

Cheers

C for yourself

Any chance of you sending those driver to me as well......??

 

[C for yourself]

Any chance of you sending those driver to me as well......??

Sure no problem - please PM me an email address I can send them to.

Cheers C for yourself

 

[native]

Ship the next batch with Mac drivers

 

[clasqm]

OK, fair's fair, a reply from Thetalogix arrived yesterday:

"Hi, I don’t know if anybody replied yet, I might even have done that, but any way, the sharkpod should work fine on the intel based iMac since I developed on the intel based mini Mac."

Does he mean it works *without any drivers?* I'll keep you posted.

 

[brandrock]

ThetaLogix site broken/buggy

Hi clasqm

Although the Cell C mobile USB modem is only shipped with drivers for Windows. The manufacturers, Thetalogix, have available drivers for both Apple and Linux.

Please request the Apple drivers directly from the manufacturer. This can be done via their website http://www.thetalogix.com/. Please use the the "Support -> Ask us a question" section to make the request.

Cheers

C for yourself

Don't bother using the URL quoted above - it posts all queries to www.ukjoblink.com (???!!!) - including your email address! No wonder you didn't get a reply. I have contacted them to fix their site. Their download page link to the drivers is also broken - it dumps a copy of an INF file - WTF?

 

[clasqm]

success!

Sorry to take so long to report back, but I can now report that the driver (script, actually) I got from Thetalogix works just fine. The pdf inside the package tells you exactly what to do, in fact, I am posting from the iMac now. (CellC, would it kill you to put that little zip file on the CDROM?)

One little hiccup, the guy in the CellC store put the simcard in his own phone and activated GPRS for me. Cool. But he forgot to deactivate the startup request for a PIN. So I spent an hour trying to work out why the modem wouldn't get onto the network. Popped the card into my own phone, told it not to ask for a PIN any more, and everything worked from there.

mail me at (clasqm AT gmail.com) if you need a copy of the script and pdf.

It's not forever - It's a stopgap measure while we renovate the house and in the fond hope that the SNO will get its act together and make ADSL prices go down and caps go up. Well, I can dream, can't I?

 

[jasonbot]

Wow, that's cool But does it only work on the intel based mac's? or are all macs supported? OS9?

 

[clasqm]

Wow, that's cool But does it only work on the intel based mac's? or are all macs supported?

The included pdf help file doesn't mention processor architectures at all, but it's a script, not a binary driver, so I guess PPC's would work

OS9?

Now that might be pushing it!