Comments on: Sprint ExpressCard EVDO (EX720)

By: pravin

pravin — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 07:14:33 +0000

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By: Eric

Eric — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 16:28:07 +0000

My Macbook Pro expresscard slot broke, this is why card won’t stay in… although it did for about a week. This is known issue at Apple. I rigged up a piece of metal to hold it in. Works fine now.

By: Johnathan Jimenez

Johnathan Jimenez — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 07:26:19 +0000

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By: Mick

Mick — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 17:20:34 +0000

Dana, Scott

I talked to Support at Novatel. They recommended affixing a label to the top of card give it some resistance. This was not enough so I then had to add a thick piece of card stock for more resistance and this has worked so far.
Good luck.

Mick

By: Giancarlo Gomez

Giancarlo Gomez — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 17:18:34 +0000

Thank you so much for this information as the personnel at Sprint where clueless on how to do this. Anyways, a quick note, for those installing your card via parallels, when you run connection manager for the first time it may ask you to update it. DON’T!!!!!!!!! It does not allow you to configure and/use your card, use the client that was included in the install CD.

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 30 May 2007 11:37:58 +0000

Has anyone had ny luck UPDTING the PRL on this card under Windows XP in Parallels?

I have everything else working fine but when I start the card under Windows on my MacBook Pro it tries to do a PRL update then gives me a COM PORT ERROR CODE 36.

I can’t find any documentation relating to this error code anywhere.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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By: dana

dana — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 15:33:39 +0000

Hi Scott,

I gave up on the express card and exchanged it for the usb from sprint. It seems to be working just as fast. I didn’t want to go through the hassle of exchanging the computer or express card…again and again.

By: Scott

Scott — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 03:41:54 +0000

Dana,

I am having the same issue. I am having sprint send me another card but I believe the same thing will occur. I think Novatel dropped the ball on this one, it doesn’t seem to be designed to accomidate the macbook pro expresscard slot enough to stay in place. Mine is falling out even with slight vibration, like while riding in a car.

By: dana

dana — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 16:48:37 +0000

Hi,

Since I last posted, I have gotten my 15inch mac book pro replaced with a brand new one because the express card slot bounces the card out. Anyhow…This incident happen again after 3 days of using the 2nd new computer. Anyone else having this issue with the express card not staying in the slot?

thanks,

dana