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Comment on Snow Leopard users, beware T-Mobile USB sticks! by Carl

Carl — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 18:24:52 +0000

I’ve been using the previous Huwaei 160 stick with Snow Leopard but I had to download drivers from the Austrian T-Mobile site. T-Mobile UK were utterly useless at the time.

This discussion is interesting and disturbing; I hadn’t realised that T-Mobile’s installer was overwriting system shared libraries. I don’t expect or appreciate this kind of thing, and I’ll definitely treat their installers as untrusted from now on, doing before/after filesystem checks and replacing any over-written standard shared libraries with the proper ones – I’m not having T-Mobile (or anyone else) replacing my libs with either old versions, wrong versions or hacked/trojan versions or whatever the hell they think they’re doing.

Once you’ve gone to the trouble of persuading them to remove their ridiculous “content lock”, the service (and dongle) does seem to represent good value (and works well), but their attitude sucks.

Note for people who travel: These cheap dongles are subsidy-locked to T-Mobile. You can unlock them, but do so before travelling. I went into a T-Mobile shop in Germany and asked for a German T-Mobile 3G sim to use with my UK, locked-to-T-Mobile dongle and they said it would cost 80 euros, whereas a 3G-capable chainstore SIM cost me 10 euros with 10 euros credit, but of course couldn’t be used in the locked stick, I had to use a regular (unlocked) phone, and my phone isn’t 3G… I later found out that even a T-Mobile SIM won’t work in a UK locked dongle if it’s not a UK SIM.

Comment on Snow Leopard users, beware T-Mobile USB sticks! by Martin

Martin — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 21:22:35 +0000

I have the 120 dongle; it doesn’t work with Snow Leopard…

maybe it does… but i cannot get it to work with mine.

I fear I may have to downgrade to Leopard. Which i’d hate to do; but i need to get my £15 a month of mobile broadband internet really…

Comment on Snow Leopard users, beware T-Mobile USB sticks! by Andy

Andy — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 23:15:30 +0000

My 24″ iMac wont boot at all after installing the dongle software. Cant enter safe mode or do anything. Off to get this fix done tomorrow.

Given T-Mobile says compatible with 10.4x or above, and given that is not true and has resulted in damage (that will cost to repair) surely they should pay the cost of getting it fixed. I will see what they say.

Comment on Snow Leopard users, beware T-Mobile USB sticks! by Michael

Michael — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 18:12:17 +0000

I’ve just had my shiny new iMac rendered inoperable by T-Mobile’s driver. Fortunately I’ve managed to repair it by reinstalling Snow Leopard (and the dongle still works after the reinstall).

It’s disgraceful that T-Mobile (who MUST know about this issue) continue to distribute this driver with their dongles which I bought new only yesterday. Frankly I’m speechless, what a disgrace, how many hours of inconvenience must this have caused??!!!

Comment on Snow Leopard users, beware T-Mobile USB sticks! by Scott

Scott — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 16:48:49 +0000

I think T-Mobile are being less than honest about not knowing about this issue. A certain electrical retail giant was busy sending around an internal memo (at launch) that warned sales colleagues not to sell mobile broadband dongles with machines running OS X 10.6 because of compatibility issues arising from changes to the kernel. The same retailer still ships the Snow Leopard machines with 10.5.6 installed instead and the upgrade discs left in the box.

Comment on Snow Leopard users, beware T-Mobile USB sticks! by Polprav

Polprav — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 05:47:24 +0000

Hello from Russia!
Can I quote a post in your blog with the link to you?

Comment on Snow Leopard users, beware T-Mobile USB sticks! by How to fix Snow Leopard after T-Mobile mobile broadband has killed it :: Aaron Russell

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 08:01:52 +0000

[...] overwrites core library files is simply unforgivable. To make matters worse, Phil Harman reckons T-Mobile aren’t even aware this problem exists… almost two months after Snow Leopard was [...]

Comment on Snow Leopard users, beware T-Mobile USB sticks! by vratko

vratko — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 06:52:24 +0000

Thanks. You saved my day…

Comment on Snow Leopard users, beware T-Mobile USB sticks! by Larry W.

Larry W. — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 17:10:27 +0000

Cripes! What other popular commercial operating system do you think they’ve had to deal with in the past to learn *that* behavior?

Comment on Low latency computing with Solaris and DTrace by Marc

Marc — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 19:36:02 +0000

Hello,

could you maybe show one detailed example (if there is one you are allowed to make public) of how you found the cause of latency and removed it?