At 6:07 PM -0500 12/09/2005, Stephen Peterson wrote:
Verizon Wireless has recently started supporting Mac internet access
via its cell phones with a USB data cable (called Mobile Office kit)
or high speed connections
"support" heh. This has worked for several years now. The techs
just weren't allowed to yammer it too loudly.
with a specific (Kyocera) PCMCIA card.
Lame.
Well it turns out they don't have any driver for the Macs for the
USB connection and will only support the expensive PCMCIA high-speed
connection. The Quick to Net USB solution allows many people like
myself to connect after 9 and weekends for free with no airtime
charges. PCers get this service. The only reason it doesn't work on
my Lombard is that it won't recognize the phone as a modem
correctly. I attempted to use the OS X10.3.2 built-in drivers and
got the phone to connect with the 3Com Impact Analog 14.4 driver but
the verification (username and password) fails. Has anyone succeded
with connecting a Samsung a650 cell phone to Verizons ISP service?
Any driver suggestions or otherwise?
I donno about Samsung phones in particular, but Verizon in general...
Their network is set up for the higher speed access. The slower free
"Q2N" service is done over the same network but with a limited DCE
speed.
Authorization fails because the network dynamically steps the DCE
speed down right after you tell it the username "qnc". At that
point, your modem hasn't stepped down, so further communication fails.
The trick is that you have to tell your phone to shift down to the
lower speed (14.4 Kbps) *before* connecting to their network. That
way, when the network adjusts the speed, the modem is already there!
On a PC, Verizon's software does this using some funky codes sent to
the cell phone over that USB link. That software also resets the
phone after the call.
On a Mac... Well, we don't have that sophisticated driver capability.
Best we can do is send a few simple AT commands to the phone's modem
(via the modem driver scripts). So you fix the speed match problem
by using the phone's "secret" tech support/diagnostic/service menu
and permanently (until manually changed) lock the DTE/DCE speed to
14.4/14.4.
After doing the above change to our Nokia phones, we're able to use
Panther's "Verizon Support (PC 5220)" script quite reliably.
HTH,
- Dan.
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