Huawei E220 Modem and Snow Leopard

Shardie

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Hi all

Anyone got 64-bit drivers for this modem. Works fine in 32bit mode but not in 64bit mode.

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E220 Replacement on Macs - Compass 885

Just thought I should share this bit of info. The E220 is not made for OSX. Plenty of hangups on SL. The plug and play memory is not readable by Macs so the patch application that comes with it is just that, a patch.

I bought a Sierra Wireless Compass 885 and it works 100%. I plugged it into the USB and it loaded the application without a single problem. Even the Console messages disappeared!!

HUAWEI on Mac suck.
 
Shardie

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Frok said:
Just thought I should share this bit of info. The E220 is not made for OSX. Plenty of hangups on SL. The plug and play memory is not readable by Macs so the patch application that comes with it is just that, a patch.

I bought a Sierra Wireless Compass 885 and it works 100%. I plugged it into the USB and it loaded the application without a single problem. Even the Console messages disappeared!!

HUAWEI on Mac suck.
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Hi, My E220 works like a dream, NO HANGUPS at all. Been connected for over 12hours already. Yes i'm running SL in 64bit mode as well.
 
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What's the point of running SL in 64 bit if you don't have more than 32Gb RAM? It's not going to run any faster since all the apps run in 64 bit mode even if you startup in 32 bit...
 
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Shardie said:
Hi, My E220 works like a dream, NO HANGUPS at all. Been connected for over 12hours already. Yes i'm running SL in 64bit mode as well.
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You using the new v3 Vodafone Mobile Broadband or what software you using?
 
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Frok said:
Just thought I should share this bit of info. The E220 is not made for OSX..
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I love statements like these. What a load of bollocks. Any hardware can work with any OS as long as there are DRIVERS for it.
 
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hammell said:
What's the point of running SL in 64 bit if you don't have more than 32Gb RAM? It's not going to run any faster since all the apps run in 64 bit mode even if you startup in 32 bit...
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On point of correction here. Im running a hackintosh in 64bit mode with all kexts loaded as 64bit. You dont need more than 32GB Ram for 64bit to have and improvement of speed over 32bit. There has been an improvement in speed and a noticeable one too - programs start quicker, are much more snappier and it literally takes less than 3 seconds to shutdown.

Im running a 2.8Ghz core 2 duo with a 9800GT 1GB VGA and it beats my old Core 2 quad 2.4 hands down (did a bench mark test using Geekbench) - Snow Leopard 64bit VS Leopard

So, with only 4GB of Ram, just by changing over to 64bit DOES improve the speed drastically. If you are running a Mac you wont see a difference. Remember running a hackintosh also disables the "handshake" between the OS and hardware.
 
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rapidblue said:
You using the new v3 Vodafone Mobile Broadband or what software you using?
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Im using the software in the links I posted above AND the original Vodafone Installer v3.2.

The Vodafone 3.2 software was still able to run and activate the modem after I installed the new 64bit drivers. Believe me its stable.
 
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Shardie said:
Im using the software in the links I posted above AND the original Vodafone Installer v3.2.

The Vodafone 3.2 software was still able to run and activate the modem after I installed the new 64bit drivers. Believe me its stable.
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Vodafone has a 3.2 out? Can only find 3.04.07 on the Vodafone website (http://support.vodafone.com)

They link looks like it's for Mobile Connect by Huawei themselves?
 
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Frok said:
Just thought I should share this bit of info. The E220 is not made for OSX. Plenty of hangups on SL. The plug and play memory is not readable by Macs so the patch application that comes with it is just that, a patch.

HUAWEI on Mac suck.
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Disagree *STRONGLY*

E220, K3715, E170 (i think) all worked BEAUTIFULLY!!!

Advice: Don't use the Mobile Partner software, at least on my MacAir it sucked the battery dry as it ran 100% CPU (VodaFone shipped version). Rather get the Vodacom/fone VMCLite, use that to configure the device, and then use the pull down menu to connect (when you've selected the show status in menu bar option inside network preferences)
 
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