I borrowed a T-Mobile 3G stick for my Mac Pro. Installed the software and got online. The Mac immediately started barfing. I uninstalled the 3G drivers and tried to restart.
One dead Mac Pro.
discovered later that the driver over-writes one of the core 64bit .lib files with a 32 bit .. something. Result is instant death for Snow Leopard. T-Mobile have known about this for years, but made no effort at all to fix.
the repair involves either an OS re-install, or hacking away at the disc in Terminal to replace the appropriate file. Method 2 took me over an hour. [I could probably do it again in a few minutes, never want to have to try]
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Date: 2011-03-08 09:51 pm (UTC)I borrowed a T-Mobile 3G stick for my Mac Pro. Installed the software and got online. The Mac immediately started barfing. I uninstalled the 3G drivers and tried to restart.
One dead Mac Pro.
discovered later that the driver over-writes one of the core 64bit .lib files with a 32 bit .. something. Result is instant death for Snow Leopard. T-Mobile have known about this for years, but made no effort at all to fix.
the repair involves either an OS re-install, or hacking away at the disc in Terminal to replace the appropriate file. Method 2 took me over an hour. [I could probably do it again in a few minutes, never want to have to try]