BRITISH USERS of Apple's latest Mac OS X, Snow Leopard, have been complaining that they can no longer use their broadband dongles in their fruity machines.
According to Electricpig.co.uk, many dongles of the broadband devices being flogged in Blighty are not compatible with Snow Leopard. It warns that punters have to be extremely careful and do shedloads of research before buying anything that plugs into their shiny expensive machines.
While some broadband dongles are advertised as working on a Mac, Snow Leopard doesn't recognize them because it does not have as many drivers as prior releases yet, the article warns.
http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1561947/snow-leopard-ate-broadband
I've just tried my 'Startup and Go' Vodafone BB dongle and it worked fine without further download.
In the installation book it only mentioned compatibility with Vista and XP SP2. No mention of Mac.
I'm really trying hard not to be enthusiastic about this weird OS. I shall have to try harder. ;)
Surely this is down to the hardware vendors not releasing drivers? It's the same as saying "my printer doesn't work since I updated to Vista."
Quote from: bobleslie on Nov 12, 2009, 21:57:19
I'm really trying hard not to be enthusiastic about this weird OS. I shall have to try harder. ;)
;D
The ZTE MF627 works fine now.
I had a problem with my Orange dongle when I upgraded to Snow Leopard., it wouldn't connect. I don't use the Orange packaged software I connect via the modem icon in the menu bar.
When it wouldn't work I tried the Orange Packaged Software and this crashed and wouldn't open at all.
I then checked in System Preferences and found the update had altered the model details in the network section to the default Apple Modem. I changed this to Vendor "Other" and Model "Huawei Mobile Connect" clicked "Apply" and it has been fine ever since.
So I don't think it's the drivers that are causing the problem just that the settings require altering back to what they were before the update.