Parent Article: 3G Broadband for my MacBook Pro.
Back in December I contacted Peak support to ask if they knew when OSX drivers would be ready for the Elan u132 (PCMCIA/CardBus->USB) adapter would be available — since the Elan website was claiming they would be released in December. (Since I had received no reply from Elan themselves, and Peak are Elan resellers)
I received a nice quick reply saying that the release date has been pushed back to the second quarter of 2007. Annoying, but not much I could do about it.
Well, now it is the second quarter of 2007, so I emailed the person who had responded to my original query, and again received a nice quick reply:
Yes, I received an e-mail from �lan the other day, drivers should be released mid May, they will not work on intel processors.
Well, four weeks isn't bad, but not working on Intel processors — ie: the entire MacBook range, and the (afaik) only Mac notebooks to actually need a PCMCIA adapter — that's just crazy.
So I asked the Peak guy about Intel-compatible drivers, and the news gets better: Elan have some Universal (Intel + PowerPC) drivers available for public beta testing.
I've had a quick fiddle so far and MacOS is detecting the HUAWEI datacard through the adapter, but when trying to use Vodafone's Mobile Connect software, it is taking down the entire system, which is not good.
I'll hopefully be able to investigate things further at the weekend, and will post any findings here.
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