Hi Brian,
It is difficult to say what is going on without eyeballing your set-up and how your network is setup. One thought does come to mind – are you sure that any of your machines are actually connecting to the internet through the Huawei? Ie do your iMac and MacMini stay connected to the internet if you unplug their ethernet cables. It almost sounds to me like you may have (wi-fi?) network connections through your Huawei but the actual internet connection is ethernet via your home modem/router – but, as I say, it is becoming very hard to visualise what your actual setup/configuration is. However, just to clarify that your problem is what you think it is, can you confirm: If you SWITCH OFF your home modem/router, then: the iMac and MacMini CAN connect to the internet when they have the Huawei plugged in the MacBook Air CANNOT connect to the internet when they have the Huawei plugged in Cheers Neil From: <[email protected]> on behalf of Brian W Scott <[email protected]> Reply-To: <[email protected]> Date: Monday, 01 July 2019 at 16:52 To: <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Is it possible to have an External USB boot drive? Hi, I’ve discovered a new wrinkle. When I tried the Huawei dongle in both the iMac and the Mac Mini both were currently connected to the internet through my home modem/router and I just went to the Network preferences and selected the Huawei when it showed up and tested the internet and it worked. So I thought I’d try this with the MacBook Air, I plugged in the ethernet cable from my home modem on one side and then the dongle in the other and when I tried the internet after selecting the Huawei in the Network preferences and it worked, the Status showed Connected and HUAWEI_MOBILE is currently active and then gives the IP address. When I removed the ethernet cable from the MacBook Air the Huawei no longer worked. When I select a web page in Safari a page from Huawei comes up saying "Insert SIM card and restart your device” which is what I have been getting when trying without the ethernet cable attached previously and removing the dongle & re-inserting the sim and plugging the dongle back in makes no difference. When I used the old Huawei dongle, the one I used since 2011 that is what I would do - I would plug it into the MacBook Air select Huawei in the preferences and I’d be on the internet. What has having an ethernet cable plugged in at the same time got to with the dongle working!? Does the system ignore my selection and find one that works. Anyway I shan’t need to pursue an external bootable drive as it won’t help now. It looks like I’ll have to spend more hours on the phone talking to Exetel to try and sort this out. By the way good idea about updating Drivers Ronnie but as Neil says there nothing there for me. Neil, I checked out the the quick start guide pdf and it’s the same as the tiny hard to read slip of paper that came with it, so thanks it's good to have something I can read with out needing a magnifying glass. Well keep warm tonight folks they are turning it down to 8 degrees in Perth. Brian On 1 Jul 2019, at 2:21 pm, Neil Houghton <[email protected]> wrote: Huawei E8372 Drivers for El Capitan -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - Guidelines - Settings & Unsubscribe -
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