[Ti] Wireless card

[Robert Ameeti]

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.
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>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.
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>Best regards,
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>Steve  (ok a new size tv)


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Robert Ameeti

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