Comments on: Mobile Internet, Skype and Mac OS X

By: alec

alec — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 19:59:59 +0000

Hello Anthony,

You are right - the whole thing feels like a bit of a hack. I’ve used both the A1 drivers now as well as the Telecom Austria drivers (they are different) and both are clumsy. If I’ve run Huawei at any time, I find my Macbook a little bit wonky until I do a restart. Generally I try to avoid using my Mobile Internet account unless it’s an emergency.

With Spanish Orange, I’d recommend getting the E 220 original drivers from Huawei and doing a manual configuration. You will need a number of parameters including the dialup number and the password - a helpful senior tech from Spanish Orange (sounds sexy) could give you the info you need.

For everyone’s information, the trick of changing the system log level is no longer working for me under OS 10.5.5

As I don’t use the modem much, the way I handle the overflowing logs is to just make sure to delete them every couple of hours:

sudo rm /var/log/asl.db
sudo rm /var/log/system.log

By: Dmitry

Dmitry — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 23:59:30 +0000

hi there,
think it can help when modem is installed. But what to do if self-installation of spanish Orange is not working on my Mac?

By: anthony

anthony — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 12:26:56 +0000

thank you. excellent post and valuable insights here. hopefully the kernel panics are a thing of the past. huawei needs to get some top mac dev guys to redo their driver. the whole bit feels like a hack.

you rock

By: alec

alec — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 14:28:47 +0000

Hello Jack,

Thanks for stopping by to let me know.

I’ll make the adjustment now for my own system.

Great when the internet works the way it’s supposed to (people helping other people - saving time for everyone)!

By: Jack Dalton

Jack Dalton — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 16:07:46 +0000

Hi there,

Level 3 seems to work i.e. /usr/sbin/syslogd to /usr/sbin/syslogd -c 3 -a

Thanks for a great article.