The Notebook Review forums were hosted by TechTarget, who shut down them down on January 31, 2022. This static read-only archive was pulled by NBR forum users between January 20 and January 31, 2022, in an effort to make sure that the valuable technical information that had been posted on the forums is preserved. For current discussions, many NBR forum users moved over to NotebookTalk.net after the shutdown.
Problems? See this thread at archive.org.

    Problem with Vista and WWan module

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by kkelloww, May 11, 2007.

  1. kkelloww

    kkelloww Newbie

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    3
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    5
    I just recently got a TXN19 and I performed a clean install of Vista Ultimate. have everything working except for the @$%@$^ EVDO. I have done the following:

    -Installed the Novatel driver listed under my model for OS migration to Vista. However, even though the driver installs, the modem is not listed under device manager.
    -Smartwi for my model would not install. It gave me an incorrect model error, even though model.txt had the correct info. So I installed the Smartwi for TXN29N by changing the model.txt file. After installing, I ran the Sprint activation and during the activation, the Novatel modem showed up under device manager as funcional. But the activation fails and the modem disappears when I close the Smartwi app.
    -I even installed the Sprint software from their website. It could not find a modem unless I also opened Smartwi and went part of the way through the activation process. It then found a fully fuctional modem and even allowed me to update the firmware. But if I closed Smartwi it disappeared.

    Does anyone have any ideas?
     
    kkelloww, May 11, 2007
    #1