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Aircard U340 not working on Apple MacOS Sierra
I upgraded my MacBook Pro to Apple Sierra macOS 10.12 and I can no longer use my 340U device. I have tried the AT&T All Access connection manager and also the Netgear Watcher software. Both of the ...
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New driver has been made available on 10/24/2016.
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Executing the equivalent of lsusb command which is system_profiler SPUSBDataType shows:
USB 3.0 Bus:
Host Controller Driver: AppleUSBXHCIPPT
PCI Device ID: 0x1e31
PCI Revision ID: 0x0004
PCI Vendor ID: 0x8086
AirCard 340U:
Product ID: 0x9051
Vendor ID: 0x1199 (Sierra Wireless Inc.)
Version: 0.06
Serial Number: 013323002244540
Speed: Up to 480 Mb/sec
Manufacturer: Sierra Wireless, Incorporated
Location ID: 0x14100000 / 2
Current Available (mA): 500
Current Required (mA): 500
Extra Operating Current (mA): 0
Looks like the El Capitan driver doesn't work for the Sierra (10.12) release anymore.
Here is what I see from System Information
AirCard 340U:
Product ID: 0x0fff
Vendor ID: 0x1199 (Sierra Wireless Inc.)
Version: 0.06
Serial Number: 013323002368315
Speed: Up to 480 Mb/sec
Manufacturer: Sierra Wireless, Incorporated
Location ID: 0x14200000 / 8
Current Available (mA): 500
Extra Operating Current (mA): 0
WWAN Information:
AirCard_340U:
Device Version Number: 6
idProduct: 0x9051
idVendor: 0x1199
locationID: 0x14200000 @ 0
Your cut-n-paste is missing the last line of the WWAN output, titled "Modem software: Unknown" as it did for me.
I'm going to assume that you are running El Capitan (10.11) version. If so, thank you.For those who know, the driver in question is downloaded from NetGear and is called AirWatch v2.5.0.
In my case, I am using AT&T mobile broadband provider, and use the following driver from: https://www.att.com/devicehowto/tutorial.html#!/stepbystep/id/stepbystep_KB421838?make=ATT&model=BeamAC340U