[yticolev]

I'm going to the Virgin Islands for three months and for that purpose I bought a Sanyo 4900 on eBay and activated it on the month to month plan including Vision. The phone shows up in System Profiler but would not initially be detected as a new port in Network preferences. Finally I logged out and voila, it detected a new port. Set it up with headers off, wait for dial tone off, dial #777 with no user and password, the Sony cdma script, and signed on. No problem, Cnet bandwidth meter reported 40kbps, checked a couple of websites and signed off.

Immediate reattempt to sign on returns a modem error with no sign from the handset of accesss. Same story with several tries at logging out and back in again. Settings have remained the same (although I did try username and pw "web" just for fun). System Profiler still shows the handset plugged into USB (same port that I configured it in).

Anyone have any ideas? I have only one day left to browse the internet and seek help before my trip. Is it possible to force it to use 14.4 access? I have an Al15 with 10.2.8.

Thanks,

David

[yticolev]

I have figured out a way to force a connection to the internet reliably. Just have to disconnect and reconnect the USB cable before every signon attempt. Annoying but workable.

Makes me think that there is a bug in Network Preferences in which signing off makes the device no longer discoverable without reconnecting it. Any thoughts?

[Tomster]

Originally posted by yticolev:
Set it up with headers off, wait for dial tone off, dial #777 with no user and password, the Sony cdma script, and signed on.

Why are you using the Sony CDMA script? Have you tried the built in Sprint PCS Vision for the modem?

[madmacgames]

yeah use the "Sprint PCS Vision" option as the modem. I use mine when I go to my folks over breaks and can connect & disconnect from the internet using the little modem icon in the.. oh whats it called on the mac.. system bar? (macs equivalent to PC system tray)...

[yticolev]

As an update, I am using the Sprint Vision script. It reports speed as 203400 bps although my experience with different scripts is that this number is often defined by the script rather than the actual speed. Bandwith Meter reports 99 kbps tonight and I find this a believeable number. A lot of latency but when the download begins it goes quite nicely.

My problem with having to reconnect the USB cable to connect now seems to be gone. Good thing as I only seem to get data for about three minutes. The phone and Internet Connect show throughput but no data gets to browsers or other internet applications. A disconnect and reconnect in Internet Connect is good for another three minutes of data. Wierd.

And earlier this afternoon, I was having the same issue with no actual throughput and an Internet Connect "Disconnect" resulted in hanging at "Disconnecting". This required a restart - just logging out and back in returned Internet Connect still stuck.

I'm beginning to wonder if my system software has demons and I am going to have to clean install. What do you think? And is there a way to just reinstall the Network portion of the OS?