AT&T 3G (Sierra Wireless) Drivers Working Under 10.6?

Anyone have any luck getting AT$T's Sierra Wireless modem working under 10.6. I have downloaded the latest drivers from Sierra's website which are suppose to allow using Apples WWAN utility; however, the WWAN software does not launch when the device is attached.
I have uninstalled and reinstalled the drive with no luck.
Any suggestions?

I removed everything Sierra I could find. The problem now is that the modem is recognized as a USB disk rather than a modem. Sierra has a switcher application that is supposed to (at the kernel extension -- kext -- level) switch the modem from USB disk to modem mode. That ought to fire up Snow Leopard's natural drivers.
Problem is -- when I install the lastest switcher kext I can find from Sierra's website, installer tells me it didn't install correctly. I think it works with 10.5.5 (or 10.5.6) and higher, but not with 10.6.
Anyone with more information -- it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
I have a support e-mail into Sierra but it will probably take them a while to walk me through all the things I have already done before they get to the meat of the matter. (No slam on Sierra support -- just that most support trails take a while for the support personnel to walk one through the standard stuff.)
I'll let everyone know if I hear anything from Sierra.
Or ... perhaps I have a unique, flaky situation.

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Hi,
drivers take the one of the Thinkpad X61 ...WWAN Driver here.
...Connection with watcher take this Sierra Watcher this one i use on my TP X60s ...
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[Solved For Now] Wireless Not Working on HP Pavillion 15-n278sa

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Hi there guys,
I have been having some problems with my Wireless under arch on my lapotop, which is a HP Pavillion 15-n278sa. I've had the wireless working twice before, but a reboot broke it both times. The Ethernet works perfectly fine. The first time I have no idea how I got it to work, it was a combination of a bunch of different threads and eventually I modprobed the wireless adapter and it worked (this no longer works).
This is the output of when I try to connect to the wireless using wifi-menu:
Job for [email protected] failed. See 'systemctl status [email protected]' and 'journalctl -xn' for details.
So I run systemctl status [email protected] and journalctl -xn and this is the output of the both respectively:
Systemctl output:
Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/[email protected]; enabled)
Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Wed 2014-03-19 11:20:53 GMT; 1min 49s ago
Docs: man:netctl.profile(5)
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Main PID: 2154 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
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Mar 19 11:20:53 carwyn-laptop systemd[1]: Failed to start Automatically generated profile by wifi-menu.
Mar 19 11:20:53 carwyn-laptop systemd[1]: Unit [email protected] entered failed state.
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Mar 19 11:20:53 carwyn-laptop network[2154]: The interface of network profile 'wireless' is already up
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-- Subject: Unit [email protected] has finished shutting down
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
-- Unit [email protected] has finished shutting down.
Mar 19 11:24:47 carwyn-laptop systemd[1]: Starting Automatically generated profile by wifi-menu...
-- Subject: Unit [email protected] has begun with start-up
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
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-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
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The network cards that I am using are the following (output from lspci -nn)
02:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8188EE Wireless Network Adapter [10ec:8179] (rev 01)
03:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller [10ec:8136] (rev 07)
This one being the wireless controller:
02:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8188EE Wireless Network Adapter [10ec:8179] (rev 01)
If there is anything more I can provide I would happily do it, I really need the wireless to work under this laptop. I know it works, I have had it working under Arch and it works under Ubuntu no problem. I am not sure if it is a driver problem, or if it's a problem with netctl. It looks more like a problem with netctl as after netctl updated it started working, and after a reboot it broke again.
Thanks so very much everyone,
Bacondrinker
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Wireless pci card - not working under OS 9

Hello everyone,
I very rarely post on OS 9 sub board, but I have one quick question. First off, my mac is a powerful(to me it is!) 2003 MDD dual 1.25(last before G5) and has 2GB memory with 2GB L3 cache per processor.
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Hi,
A ethernet to wifi bridge is connected to your computer via the ethernet port.
ex: http://www.macsense.com/product/networking/wua800-1.html
So there is no need for driver in the OS since it's using the ethernet port like connected via a wire. It's the box that convert it to a wifi signal. You could even use this for OS X, Windows or Linux etc...
Many manufacturers make this kind of device.
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System:
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Windows 8.1 Enterprise 64-bit
Third Apps installed
Latest Lenovo Drivers installed
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Sierra Wireless EM7700 device experiences device code error 43 or not “USB device not recognized.” There are also times where there are two or more instances of the same device in Device Manager.
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I have a brand new W520 for my company and we cannot get wireless to work. Here is what I tried.
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Installed the drivers from the Lenvo Support site. Had to install manually as Lenovo System Update would not return anything for me to install, even when I had a ton of missing drivers.
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Hi egregorich,
Check in the BIOS whether it's enabled, F1 to enter the BIOS, it should be under Config -> Networks.
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Keep us posted.
Maliha (I don't work for lenovo)
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