H. Mijail's Blog

Los drivers que Toshiba publicó para el G450 en el 2008 son sólo 32 bits. Si tu Mac OS X Lion corre el kernel a 32 bits, posiblemente funcionarán. Pero si ordenador corre el kernel a 64 bits, lo cual creo que ya será la mayoría de macs, esos drivers no funcionarán. Y Toshiba no tiene pinta de  que vaya a publicar nuevos drivers, porque ya eran lentos con cosas de soporte cuando el móvil era nuevo, y ahora encima parece que la división de móviles de Toshiba se ... arrejuntó con Fujitsu en el 2010. Así que la solución a corto plazo es arrancar en modo 32 bits, lo cual se hace pulsando las teclas 3 y 2 mientras arrancas. Sólo el kernel pasa a modo 32 bits, y se supone que la diferencia no será demasiado grande en rendimiento - pero no sé de cifras concretas. Los programas seguirán funcionando a 64 bits. Curiosamente, OS X Lion lleva de serie drivers de Huawei para el modem E220 y algún otro. Pero son también drivers de 32 bits, así que estamos en las mismas. Y tampoco veo que Hua...

I recently changed computers and got a MacBook Pro which boots the kernel in 64 bit mode. The problem is, the only drivers Toshiba published for the G450 modem are 32 bit only (published on 2008). So the only solution for now is booting in 32 bit kernel mode (pressing 3 and 2 when booting). I seriously doubt that Toshiba are going to publish updated drivers; they were already rather unsupporting even when the modems were new. And Toshiba seems to have merged its mobile division with Fujitsu's... and even Windows 7 users seem to have problems. So... maybe this means that I should try to go back to the program-your-own-driver thing.

Por fin me he dedicado a jugar un poco con el driver oficial. El resultado esperado, como Nexus había comentado antes en otro post, era que el G450 sólo funcionase si estaba enchufado desde el arranque. Pero en mi caso era peor: ni siquiera así funcionaba. Además he visto por la red más gente con el mismo problema. El "Toshiba PC Tool.app" que se instala junto al driver simplemente dice que no encuentra el modem, y ni siquiera aparece montado el disco USB que debería aparecer al conectar el G450. El Perfil del Sistema muestra sin embargo que en el bus USB está conectado un disco de Toshiba, y la Consola muestra que diskarbitrationd no ha podido crear un disco ("unable to create /dev/disk2"). Esto se mantuvo así aunque reseteé el G450 y reformateé el disco con el propio menú del teléfono/modem/bicho. Pero he encontrado una solución, que aunque no es ideal, tampoco cuesta mucho. Cuando el G450 está apagado y es enchufado al ordenador, la pantalla muestra una a...

Finally I have had the chance to play a bit with the official driver. Remember, the expected result was that it would only work if plugged since the booting of the Mac. That would be unfunny, but in my case it was even worse: as a lot of other people has reported, it didn´t seem work at all. The "Toshiba PC tool.app" reported that no modem was found, and no USB disk appeared, even though I tried resetting and reformating the G450 internal disk (through its own configuration menu). But finally I have found a solution. Not ideal, but not too painful, and it works. The problem was that the modem would remain in the disk mode - which in my Mac at least doesn´t even work properly, since it doesn´t get mounted as a disk. The only way I can see that it is supposed to behave like a disk is because it appears in System Profiler.app, in the USB devices list. And Console.app shows something about diskarbitrationd "unable to create /dev/disk2". When the G450 is turned off ...

Looks like finally Toshiba published a Mac OS X driver for their G450 3G modem . The only problem is, it doesn't seem to work. It installs, but nothing else happens. And the Toshiba PC Tool app it installs always complains that the modem can't be found. I'll take it as a warning that I'm letting too much time pass by without working on the subject... although I still think about it and read the needed docs whenever life's DDoS leaves me some room to breathe. (In the last 3 weeks I finished the polish course, passed the exam with good marks, started the new course, enjoyed the trip, finished my previous job – with still some rough edges to be taken care of, did the paperwork to end my previous self-employment in Spain and start the new job in Poland, did the paperwork relating to spanish telephony and bank accounts, and started the new job. Now I only have to finish the flat moving and basic set up...) (Hm, surely I should write some short article about all...

Pues parece que finalmente en Toshiba se han decidido a publicar un driver para Mac OS X para el modem 3G. Lo curioso es que a mí no me funciona. Se instala, pero... no veo que haga nada de nada. Me lo tomaré como un aviso de que llevo mucho tiempo sin avanzar el tema . Pero sigo pensando en ello y tocando los libros cuando el resto de la vida me deja... Ya he acabado el anterior curso de polaco (aprobé el examen con buena nota!, y ha empezado el nuevo curso), acabó el viaje, acabó el antiguo trabajo (más o menos – aún quedan cabos sueltos por amarrar), acabaron los papeleos de baja como autónomo en España y alta como trabajador en Polonia, acabaron los papeleos de telefonía y bancos en España, y he empezado el nuevo trabajo. Sólo falta acabar la mudanza y acabar de arreglar lo más básico del nuevo piso. No está mal para 3 semanas, oiga. Pero la cuestión es que tendré que ponerme las pilas con el driver, porque supongo que en algún momento Toshiba sacará un driver que sí que f...

About 3 weeks ago, I had to buy the 3G modem Toshiba G450 because Polish operator Play would not let me get the plan I wanted without it. A few hours later, I had to accept that there are no Mac OS X drivers for it! Which would have made me, say, unhappy, had I not had my trusty Huawei E220. The only information I have been able to come up with are amazed reviews from gadget websites. Not even a driver for Linux... And this happens when I was thinking about polishing my low-level development powers (there is more to life than Java and C#, you know!)... so, why not take the chance to learn about what is needed to make a driver? The modem uses the ZeroCD "trick" of appearing as a USB drive to the OS, until it receives an existent-but-generally-unused-in-USB-drives command; at that moment, the drive is "unplugged" and a new device appears in the bus: the modem. So in the USB drive that appears first, there is a driver installer (for Windows, of course). The use...