Verizon WWAN on T400s

I have never used WWAN before. I have a few questions on setting it up properly. I have a T400s with the Qualcomm Gobi 1000 HS-USB Modem 9202. When I enable WWAN from the bios and turn the radio on two additional location profiles appear in Access Connections - "HSPA Mobile Broadband" and "Verizon Wireless". HSPA is for ATT I think, and when I try it it says no Sim card. When I try Verizon Wireless it says "Please install Mobile Broadband Connect application to proceed further. When I google "Lenovo Mobile Broadband Connect" and go to the 1st link, lenovo support and downloads it says "There is a problem retrieving the document MIGR-70946."

http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/MIGR-70946.html

I went to "Lenovo Mobile Broadband" assuming it was the same thing here

Lenovo Support & downloads - ThinkVantage Technologies downloads

But the T400s isn't listed under either windows 7 download options. Further the driver matrix here

Lenovo Support & downloads - Drivers and software - ThinkPad T400 and T400s

has N/A for ThinkPad Mobile Broadband for the T400s.

Which one do I use? Where do I get this from??

Also if I go to Tools/Mobile Broadband/Account Information and Activation under access connections it shows Activation Status: Not Activated

 

Have you purchased an account with the phone company?
Renee

 

I use it on my E6400 from work. Was just going to copy over whatever account information was necessary to get it working if I could get to that point.

 

Go to: VZAccess Manager

Near the bottom of the page, you'll see a link for Lenovo Notebook with global module (Qualcomm 9202) or CDMA module (Sierra Wireless MC5720, MC5725)

 

For it to work, the progammers would have to be, eh 'uncaring'.
Renee

 

What do you mean? For what to work?

@pshifrin thanks for the link. I haven't tried it yet because I wasn't on my laptop and I don't know the phone number tied to it.

Also, is it preferable to allow Access Connections to control WWAN or VZ Access Manager

Also, is this a futile attempt here? A coworker told me that the WWAN account is tied to the ESN of the particular WWAN card it was activated on, and trying to use it on 2 separate cards (simultaneously or otherwise) won't work. The IT guy won't help me since my ThinkPad isn't a work computer. Frustrating.

 

You can enter ANY phone number when it asks. Why it even asks is just stupid.

Your IT dept is correct. The verizon wireless account is linked to the ESN of the device in your dell. If you are authorized on the account, you could call verizon and do an ESN swap to the Thinkpad. You could theoretically keep swapping them back and forth but it would require a call to verizon and running the activation each time.

I just don't like access connections, so I use built-in windows 7 for wifi and the verizon software for when I need to.