Comments on: Using Sprint Novatel U727 Wireless Card on Leopard

By: Hal

Hal — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 18:19:33 +0000

For anyone else with USB modem (Sierra 598) on Leopard – this works. You may need to enter a phone number of #777. Sounds like sprint software has trouble on Leopard, and you just need to create a DUN entry like this.

By: Raam

Raam — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 22:41:50 +0000

Weeks. I spent WEEKS toying around trying to get my card working again! (One day it stopped working for no apparent reason.) I even tried installing the Sprint drivers a couple of times! Nothing worked! Following your “magical” steps got it working again! Woohoo! Thanks a ton! :D

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 22:44:44 +0000

You need to press Apply to save the new Novatel settings before you press Connect. And these steps are documented in the Sprint guide at http://www4.sprint.com/pcsbusiness/support/downloads/items.jsp

By: Thomas

Thomas — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 02:37:57 +0000

I live in a rural area, have to use wireless card to get high speed, got a new imac 10.5, loaded leopard, having trouble installing sprint/novatel u727 air card successfully. Spoke in 3-way with solutions partner from sprint and an expert tech from apple and could not resolve problem. Next I went to novatel site and found information that helped. I was able to get online and later could not. Searched novatel faq’s and found more answers, applied them and got online again. Now I’m back to device cannot connect screen every time I try to connect. Any help?

By: Kirk

Kirk — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 19:18:14 +0000

Thanks for this. I had Sprint Support talk me through this – the answer there was the same.

Next question: How do I get the phone (dialer) icon to show in the top bar of my MacBook screen, just as it did in Tiger? Or, is there another shortcut to get the U727 modem to dial out? Right now I have to go into System Preferences, then Network, and dial through the Novatel CDMA tab.

Thanks,

Kirk

By: nathan

nathan — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 04:56:05 +0000

Does anybody know how I can get it to work if I loaded Leopard on a non intel based computer? as far as I can tell the update on the Apple website is only for the intel based computers. Mine is a G5 imac so it doesn’t do me any good.

By: rob

rob — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 04:00:31 +0000

way to go, you are a genius. Read epology and get educated. This worked for me on the first try. Thank You, you new more than Mac Support did.

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 04:15:53 +0000

One small change you should put in is that you have to hit “okay” before you can select CDAM, at least on my 10.5.1 install.

By: billo

billo — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 18:46:33 +0000

Yes! My new slogan will be “read EGOPOLY, and don’t get FIRED!”

Happy to help.

:-)

By: kevin

kevin — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 18:26:51 +0000

It worked for my bosses macbook too! Now i’m worth keeping around (i hope). thanks dude!