Mobile Broadband Set-up on OSX 10.7

You know the part before the upgrade where they tell you to check all of your applications before you upgrade? Well, last night I decided that it would be a great idea to upgrade my Mac from Snow Leopard to Lion. Turns out that perhaps wasn’t so great an idea after all when my Huawei USB 3G modem dongle decided that it wasn’t going to work since it wasn’t relevant for the new 64-bit only kernel. Oops, I should have checked first. But it isn’t a complete disaster!

After frantically using Google to find a new driver to install and digging around the Huawei site trying to find a replacement driver I was getting to the point of doing some modifications to the com.apple.boot.plist file and restart my Mac with the i386 kernel instead of the x86-64 one that appears to now be the default.

But I found a Gem.... After searching the darkest, deepest parts of the internet, I found what I needed, and now, I will tell you how to Install Mobile Broadband on OSX 10.7 - Lion

As I am a T-Mobile Customer, I will be using a T-Mobile E170 dongle, but this should work on any Huawei modem. 

1) 1st, plug the dongle in to the Mac

2) Double Click 'T-Mobile Internet Manager'

3) Follow the on-screen instructions to install the manager

4) The T-Mobile Internet Manager will open & warn you the Device is disconnected. Ignore this & close the Manager.

5) Download THIS. It is the latest 64bit drivers from HUAWEI.

6) Install the huawei_universal_425_05.pkg

7) Restart the mac. When its back on, fire up the T-Mobile Manager & Hit connect :)

So if you’ve just upgraded to Lion and are trying to work out how to get your Huawei modem working properly with it, those instructions worked for me and I’m using it to write this post.

Could Microsoft own the OS..... Again?

Ok, this is a rather geeky post, so the fain hearted should STOP........

Ok, here we go.

Some 25 years ago (Infact, just a few days over 25 years ago), Bill Gates Created Microsoft, who in turn created Windows 1.0.1

Since then, Microsoft have gone on to dominate the computer operating system market. Over 91% of PC users are estimated to be Windows users. I myself own a Windows PC (Although its only ever used for Gaming, everything else is done in OS X).

Now, don't quote me on this, but I believe that before Windows was even thought about, another operating system existed called UNIX.

Now, I wont bore you with the history of the 2 (UNIX Wiki - Windows Wiki), but basically Windows went on to win the battle & the war.

But UNIX still lives on to this day, powering Linux, OSX, Android & Palm Webos (if im wrong, please correct me), and accounts for around 9% of the PC market share

Ok, thats the history done (I would have made a great teacher!!), now on with my rant.

Today, Attachmate announced they were acquiring Novel, owners of the rather popular Linux distro, SUSE Linux. Novel also own UNIX......

Now, to help raise the cash to buy Novel (for $2.2Billion), they are selling some IP's to Microsoft. Now Attachmate have not anounced what IP's will sold to MS, there is a fear that they may sell the rights to UNIX to MS. This would be bad....... Real bad.

Remember the history lesson I gave you? UNIX is the backbone of Linux, MAC OSX, Android & the iPhone.....

This could lead to MS strangling UNIX to death, or pricing UNIX out of the market & kill off the competition. For a few measly quid ($450Million), MS could dominate the desktop OS & the mobile OS market once again.....

This could be bad.

I may be on the wrong track completely here, and if I am, please correct me & educate me, but if I am right, it's going to be a MS world...

Source(s)
http://www.linux-watch.com/news/NS4446359842.html
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/11/22/attachmate_eats_novell/
http://www.computerhope.com/history/unix.htm