Cricket Broadband w/Snow Leopard

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I am running Snow Leopard 10.6.3. Neither of Cricket's Modems has support for any Mac running Snow Leopard. All the Cricket reps can say that "Hopefully it is coming soon..." Snow Leopard has been out for awhile and Apple or Mac is a pretty big platform. Does anyone know of a workaround or a better time frame than "coming soon"? Thanks for any help you may be able to give me :)
 
best thing to do would be to extract the drivers for the older mac osx setup and use them on your snow leopard. Set up as a new modem that dials #777
username: your#@mycricket.com
Password: cricket
 
That's how I set them up on my own equipment anyway. All the Cricket BB software does is cause the OS's modem dialer to fire up in the background anyway. Why have another program take up memory?
 
So calling myself a noob in this situation, but what is the best way to 'extract the drivers?' I understand how to set up the username, password, etc. Thanks again for your help jammis and AppleMac! I appreciate you helping me!
 
try reading the cd and showing hidden files. You may be able to pull the ktexts or driver files from the .dmg

just a guess

If anyone can pull the drivers from the cd can you send me a copy so i can host them for everyone? thanks in advance
 
It comes with the software pre installed on the USB drive. There is no cd. I will try to open the files on the drive. If anyone has these files and are willing to post them with instructions would be willing to buy through PayPal.
 
You shouldn't need the drivers on the Mac. It should have a generic driver. Just plug the device in and go to System Preferences>Network. You should see your device over on the left hand side. Select it and then you'll need to put in the username as [email protected] and the password as cricket1. Good luck.
 
AppleMac I did as above but when I hit connect it tells me that "The Communication Device for your connection does not exist" obviously it does because it showed up on left. Thank you for your help! I appreciate you!
 
Then the appropriate driver does not exist. Unfortunately Cricket has not pressed the manufacturer to release a driver for snow leopard. There will be updated hardware coming out soon that have snow leopard software available. In the meantime, do you have another computer with wifi? You could always set the device up there and then enable internet connection sharing on it. Do you know how to configure that? I've used it to share the BB connection with multiple devices before.
 
AppleMac I installed Boot Camp and am working in Windows when I only have too. cricKet is very late to the game on this update. Hope it becomes a priority for them soon. Thanks again for all your help!
 
I tried to get it working on a snow leopard macbook today. No dice. I even tried manually setting up the connection and it simply refused to dial. I tried both the A600 and UM185 and neither would dial out. Cricket's next generation of BB carRAB should support Snow Leopard. It's too bad, considering the rising market share of the Mac(Currently at just over 10%), that we would ignore this part of the market.
 
@not_clutch719 If you get it figured out, let me know! I would be long time grateful and can send a few bucks your way! Cricket is on Twitter @cricketnation and over 214 days ago people were asking for help and a update and today all they will still say is coming soon. They are making themselves look a fool! Thanks again!
 
Problem solved! I purchased a CradlePoint mobile router at my corporate cricKet store today. They discounted it to 79.99. I plug in my cricKet modem into the router and I have a mobile wifi spot for everything in my house including my MacBook. Didn't know they had it until today. Works first time out of the box, so far no problems issues or dead spots.
 
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