Help Me, 3 mobile broadband on my mbp

I have a 13" macbook pro running latest snow leopard. I bought a 3 mobile broadband dongle, model number e1550. This is not being recognised on my mac.

It works perfectly on my windows netbook and windows desktop. I have googled this and it seems to be a common problem to do with drivers. Does anyone have the right drivers.

Hello,

Yes, I have the solution and am running a 3 Huawei E160 (pre-cursor to yours) dongle on my MacBook with Snow Leopard.

After wiping my hard drive to install Snow Leopard, I plugged in my Huawei E160G modem and tried to install it using the 3 Mobile software provided.
It turns out the installer will not work in 10.6, so I found this after a search

Fixing 3 Mobile Broadband E168G on Snow Leopard James Whittaker

Now, the instructions for installing did not work, as I discovered the package will not actually install the drivers, so next I searched for and managed to find the correct kext (driver) which should cover most Huawei models

As soon as I installed the kext using KextHelper, and before I managed to do a restart, the modem was detected. I restarted anyway to be on the safe side and set the modem up as per the instructions near the bottom of the linked page.

The point is, I know this is meant to be specific for an E168G on 3 UK, but it can be adapted for whatever Huawei modem / ISP combination you have.

As I don't have the means to attach the files to this post, please pm me with an email address and I'll send them to you.

Hope this helps,

Cheers

Hugh

Thank you so much, pm sent......

Hi mrblue,

Could you please let us all know how you got on; it could help others in the same situation.

Cheers

Hugh