People who have a Macs in India are really troubled with the newly introduced EVDO cards from BSNL. These cards are manufactured by one pathetic ZTE company from China and they do not even provide drivers for other OSes except Windows.
Anyway, good news is that we can use it with Mac OS X also, as I have found out from some blogs. So this is not an original discovery or invention by me.
There are two ways of doing that - 1. using PL 2303 Drivers and doing some tweaking with the OS X Kernel etc etc. and
2. the easier way is to do it the way I am describing now.
NOTE:
If you have installed the pl2303 drivers, then remove them before you proceed.
A. Removal Code: (Run in Terminal)
~$ sudo -s
bash-3.2# kextunload /System/Library/Extensions/osx-pl2303.kext/
bash-3.2# rm -r /System/Library/Extensions/osx-pl2303.kext/
bash-3.2# rm -r /Library/Receipts/osx-pl2303.pkg/
Reboot the System.
Setting up the EVDO Card
1. Download this file from mediafire.
Link:
http://www.mediafire.com/?dgnemnmw3mm
2. Extract to your root partition, which is usually Macintosh HD. Execute these command in the terminal.
~$ sudo -s
bash-3.2# cd /
bash-3.2# ls
3. You should see the Install folder here.
bash-3.2# cd Install
bash-3.2# sh Install.sh
4. Reboot.
5. Open Network preferences, you should be able to see ZTE CDMA Tech as one the connections. Enter your BSNL (this usually 165 and password is 165) number and select Vendor (for hardware) as “Novatel” and Model as “CDMA” from advanced tab. The script is for ZTE AC8700 modems with hardware id 0c56:6000. The numbers 24576 and 1478 in the script correspond to the above id. You would have to change it if you have a different hardware id.
6. Connect and surf!
By the way, I am getting 1190 kbps download speed with my EVDO. How much you people are getting?
2 comments:
they do no even provide drivers for other OSes except Windows.
Should it be "do not" ?
My apologies Mr. Prasanta.
And thank you so very much for pointing out that. I will be more careful about it henceforth.
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