I restarted my MacBook Air with the Sierra Wireless Card still in the USB slot (yeah, the ONE USB slot...) Usually, I run a program called Sierra Watcher to recognize the card and provide wireless access on my Mac. Lo and behold, when my Mac restarted, I got a dialogue saying that I had a new network device installed. I clicked on the link to network preferences in the dialogue and found that all my AT&T information was already entered so I just clicked on a button called connect. Guess what? It worked! I did not realize that my Mac would natively support the Aircard without the Sierra Watcher program. Is this a new feature? Am I the only one who didn't know? Does this work on other Macs too?
Update: Thanks to Kevin Tofel at JK On The Run I learned that native OSX support for the Sierra Wireless card has been a feature since Tiger. Color me clueless!
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Yup, no extra software or driver needed. Found this out in August when I brought my MacBook Pro and U875 to Starbucks only to realize I never installed the software from Sierra. Plugged it in and "it just works". ;)
Thanks, Kevin. I just love seeing those bars on my menu bar. Though, I'd like to see a few more of them right now.
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