Cricket A600 USB Broadband Modem and Snow Leopard

I found this on a forum which worked for me : http://www.evdoforums.com/thread12573.html


ricket kinda works, but not by using their connection software (but using their drivers). This is what I had to do from a fresh install of SL (I may be missing some steps).

Install the software. Mac OS will complain that the installer installed stuff incorrectly.

Move the CDFree* and DevGuruVsp* kexts from /System/Library/Extensions to the desktop.

Delete the panther versions

Rename the tiger versions to CDFree.kext and DevGuruVsp.kext

Copy them to /Library/Extensions

Go into terminal, and fix permissions in the the /Library/Extensions directory:

cd /Library/Extensions
sudo chown -R root:wheel *
sudo chmod -R 0644 *

Load the driver:

sudo kextload -v *

Then at some point, either by removing and inserting the USB adapter, or playing around with the Software, I got a popup saying that a new network adapter was detected.

Then, I went into System Preferences, and to the first A600 device, added #777 as the phone number, cricket as the username, and my last 7 digits of my phone number as the password. I was then able to use this device to connect.

HI,

Go to the manufacture web site and make sure it's Mac OS X 10.6 compatible. If it came with software, you may need to download and install updates for 10.6.





Carolyn 🙂

I'm having the same problem. The drivers embedded on the modem appear to not very happy with 10.6

I'm also having this problem. My Cricket modem worked fine before I upgraded to Snow Leopard, but now it doesn't work at all. The device isn't recognized and each time I insert the modem into the USB port, the image shows up with the install package, as if it's not been recognized as installed. Very frustrating! There is absolutely nothing on the Cricket website about this.

I saw that post and attempted to follow those steps, but they are not specific and I got errors, probably used incorrect syntax. If anyone has had luck with that set of instructions and would like to post a more detailed, concise version, that would be great!

At the evdoforums link above, there's a new post which has a link to a script and a screencast I did to show the procedure. Good luck!

Alt-Click on the link to save it to the download folder, then move it to the desktop.

1) cd ~/Desktop
2) sudo bash postflight

It's clearer on youtube if you view in "HD" mode and expand the viewer. I've also added an annotation that spells it out, too.

Jamus

Make sure to use safari, and move the file that you downloaded onto your desktop.

The best way I found for "native" Cricket support was to downgrade to 10.5.x, installing the modem software using the installer on the A600, then upgrading to 10.6. Make sure to preserve users and settings when downgrading.

What a pain. All of my 3G modems (VZ and Cricket) worked but the installers were legacy.

Jamus, Please help me "fix" my issue with the A600 + Snow Leopard, I tried to dl the script but it wont work when I sudo bash postflight. it says no such file or directory. I looked at the video and on it your icon for "postflight" looks like a .exe icon, on my desktop the file looks like a sheet of paper. I am assuming that's the problem. Please help I chasing you down on youtube, EVDO, Here I just need a dumbed down step by step. btw... What is a superuser? and how do I run the script? Thanks

Richard,

I followed all your steps and everything works...once. Every time I unplug the modem and plug it back in I have to follow the steps all over again. Is there any way to avoid this?