[Ti] Wireless card

[themacuser]

Owned!
On 04/03/2005, at 07:57, Robert Ameeti wrote:

> As a follow on to Steve's experience, I've got a bit to add...
>
> On Steve's suggestion, I went to my local Verizon store and bought the 
> PC 5220. The salesman gave me the MTN number and the ESN number that I 
> was supposed to enter after installing the software from the CD. The 
> salesperson warned me to make sure that I installed the software 
> before inserting the PC card or else I would probably break the card 
> as he had had to replace several cards for customers that had not 
> properly installed the software. Still being in the store, I inserted 
> the CD into my Mac and I immediately recognized that it was only PC 
> programs and some pdfs. I put the CD back into the box. Asking the 
> salesperson about this, he replied that he would find out about Mac 
> compatibility and he disappeared behind the partition.
>
> Being the daredevil that I am, I brazenly inserted the PC card into my 
> Mac. After a few seconds, up popped a dialog telling me that I had 
> inserted a Verizon wireless card and that I must authorize the 
> installation of software. My Mac then showed me the standard Admin 
> password dialog where I typed in my password. About 10 seconds later, 
> I noticed a Connect menu in the menu bar. What the heck. I selected 
> Connect from the menu bar and in started flowing the 200 emails that 
> were awaiting me. After about 10 minutes, the salesperson reappeared 
> and said, Sorry, it wasn't going to be able to work on my Mac.
>
> At 3:52 PM -0800 2005.03.01, Steve Wozniak wrote:
>> One of the best computer purchases of my life was a PC 5220 card from 
>> Verizon that gives me unlimited data at 300 Kb for $80 per month. I 
>> used a driver for this card that came from an insider. You insert the 
>> card and the port is recognized and the Internet Connect info is 
>> sucked from the card to make a Network Location. I was told that this 
>> driver was part of OS X 10.3.6 and up but I'm not sure it works, 
>> having tried it in a couple of raw PowerBooks. I still have to use my 
>> driver. This card saved me a ton of money over the last year.
>>
>> I found that some places, certain rooms in certain hotels for 
>> example, don't work with Verizon. So I got a second card, the 
>> Sony/Ericcson GC83 EDGE card, for GSM systems.
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> Steve  (ok a new size tv)
>
>
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