Sprint U300 Wireless
The Sprint 3G/4G USB Modem U300, manufactured by Franklin Wireless (Franklin Wireless FW300DOWMX) is a sleek, easy-to-use data card which connects to a standard USB port. The device was priced at $149.99 with a two-year subscriber agreement, after a $50 mail-in-rebate. The Sprint Connection Manager recognizes and connects to the fastest connection available.
Drivers
Drivers are currently only available for Microsoft Windows same goes for 4G. Apparently you can only get 4G using the Sprint software for now.
Updates
Updates for Windows are available at this link
Installing in Mac
Drivers for this modem is not available for the Mac. We will update if and when it becomes available.
We however found this online, we cannot guarantee ot's functionality and take to blame if it kills your Mac in anyway, shape or form. Proceed at your own risk.
- Get the driver here
- On Snow Leopard install from terminal:
sudo installer -target Macintosh\ HD -pkg ~/Downloads/Install\ Sprint\ SmartView.mpkg
Installing in Linux
- In terminal run:
lsusb
- You should see this line
Bus 001 Device 005: ID 16d8:6002 CMOTECH Co., Ltd.
- Next we want to change this into a Serial Device by running:
sudo modprobe usbserial vendor=0x16d8 product=0x6002
- In your editor of choice open this file for editing:
/etc/udev/rules.d/50-u300modem.rules
- Copy the following to the file:
ACTION!="add", GOTO="3G_End"
SUBSYSTEMS=="usb", ATTRS{idProduct}=="6002", ATTRS{idVendor}=="16d8", RUN+="/sbin/modprobe usbserial vendor=0x16d8 product=0x6002"
LABEL="3G_End"
- Save this document and close the text editor
- Run this command in Terminal
sudo restart udev
- This should kick back something like this
udev start/running, process 2955
- Now go to your network connections manager and setup the connection.
- You should now see the device in the list.
