My family and I usually spend some time in Europe during the summer; there are several great conferences to attend, and of course we take the opportunity to visit our parents and relatives. My unlocked Captivate, with a Vodafone Italy prepaid voice+data plan, solved my smartphone connectivity problems. However, I also rely on a USB 3G modem to connect with my MacBook Pro when I’m away from wifi networks. Specifically, I use a Vodafone Italy “internet key” and a nice prepaid plan (5 euros per month, and 1 euro each day I actually use the key, for up to 300MB of traffic per day, which is perfect for email and work).

After upgrading to OS X Lion, I remembered that the “internet key” (a Vodafone-branded Huawei UMTS modem) used to require a PowerPC-era driver. This is bad news: OS X Lion drops support for Rosetta, the PowerPC emulator that allowed users of previous OS X releases to run software and drivers written for older-generation Macs. Thus, no Rosetta, no PowerPC drivers, hence no internet key 😦

• Install the free Vodafone Mobile Broadband (VMB) app from the Windows Store. For Mac OS 10.7 onwards Double-click the VMB icon that will appear on your OS X desktop when you plug your USB Stick in to install the VMB app.
• On mac os x computers the rst time you plug in your usb stick, it will show up on your desktop as a vodafone mobile broadband disk. But, if you want to attempt lowering your android drawbridge using only the power of your voice, then we ll show you how it s done.
• For Apple® Mac® user Hints and tips Glossary 1 Your new Vodafone Mobile Broadband USB Stick lets you connect your computer to the Internet over the Vodafone high-speed mobile phone network. Browse the web Access the web and any other Internet service wherever there’s a mobile.
• Start, select Vodafone Mobile Broadband from the Windows Start menu, or double-click the Vodafone Mobile Broadband desktop icon. On Mac OS X computers When you plug your USB Modem in for the fi rst time, a disk named Vodafone Mobile Broadband will popup on your desktop. Double click on the Vodafone Mobile Broadband app to start installation.
• For Mac OS X 10.11 10.9 (El Capitan, Yosemite, Mavericks) For Mac OS X 10.8 10.6 (Mountain Lion, Lion, Snow Leopard) Vodafone Mobile Broadband software 11.1.1.52055-RC1 - released December 2015. This software is designed to work with Microsoft Windows 10 OS.
• Απαιτήσεις συστήματος: os x 10.8.5, os x 10.9.5, os x 10.10.5, os x 10.11.6, os x 10.12.6, os x 10.13.x.

Mobile broadband firmware, software and guides. Mac OS X(v204.10.18.0.0) Windows 10. Open up the Vodafone Mobile Connect software on your PC.

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Well, it turns out that Vodafone is rewriting drivers and software for modern, Intel-based macs! You can get a preview version here; hat tip to Macfixit, a South African web site where I first found a reference to the aforelinked Vodafone page. [Update: the Vodafone preview page now also comes up first if you do a Google search for “vodafone mobile broadband lion preview”].

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Incidentally, getting the software obviously poses a chicken-and-egg problem. I solved it by downloading it using my Captivate. Here, though, I had to work around a small hurdle: the default Captivate / Android browser would not download the .zip file with the driver, saying that it was “not meant for my platform” (or something like that). So, I tried using the Dolphin browser instead, and it worked: the file was downloaded, and I simply copied it to my Mac via USB, and installed it. Success!

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Everything works like a charm so far. Looking forward to more travel blogging…