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

By: David

David — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 20:23:03 +0000

I got my card configured on my friend’s XP laptop, and we had the card working on his machine. We moved the card to my MBP and while the system see’s the card, when I click “connect” it doesn’t connect and errors out.

Anyone have any ideas? The internet connect needs a telephone number, etc. Perhaps I have the wrong modem selected? Which one do I select?

Thanks!

David

By: dana

dana — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 18:21:13 +0000

Hi,I just purchased the 15 inch mac book pro and the sprint express card. It was working find this morning. I had remove the card from the slot…and now it won’t stay in. Did anyone else have this problem?

By: Will

Will — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 02:13:06 +0000

I was able to activate my card at Staples. Using Windows Vista. Yep it does work. I know because I did it. I can’t remember how i did it though. Just clicked everything I could. Popped it in the Mac and it fired to life. By the way, Vista kinda looks more like OSX.

By: Sal

Sal — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 21:14:09 +0000

I don’t have access to a Windows laptop running 2000 or XP with an Express card slot. The Sprint store I purchased the card from does not have one either and neither does the other local Sprint store! What an incredible pain in the ass, I can’t believe that Sprint doesn’t have activation software for Mac OS X. I’m taking may card back tomorrow and demand a full refund.

By: jc

jc — Sun, 04 Mar 2007 12:52:03 +0000

Great. It only works on apple portables. How am I supposed to use these drivers on a mac mini? Any ideas?