CLEAR Connection Manager for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard RELEASED!!!

Posted by William Higgins | 2:20 PM | , , , | Comments (10)

CLEAR Connection Manager Beta Version 1.03.0062.0 for Mac 10.5 Leopard: Errata


*** Please note *** that I have not personally tested this software yet. Look for a full review of this software next week after we have had time to install and test. The information below is provide by the documentation that came with the download.

  • This version of the CLEAR Connection Manager supports only Mac OS 10.5 Leopard.
    Mac OS 10.6 Snow Leopard will be supported in a future release.
  • This version only supports the Motorola WiMAX
  • The first time you insert your USB device into the Mac you will receive a dialog box titled:
    “A new network interface has been detected” as illustrated below.

  • OS X presents this dialog box any time a new network interface is created. It is not
    necessary to select “Network Preferences”. You may select “Cancel” to close the dialog
    box.
  • The signal strength indicator may fluctuate erratically at times and may not provide
    accurate information in all cases. This will be resolved in a future release.

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randomspecific · 819 weeks ago

No PowerPC support?
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wahiggins3 26p · 819 weeks ago

Hey, I guess they gotta start somewhere. Intel is a major investor in Clearwire and WiMAX.
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thiago · 819 weeks ago

PowerPC? Even Apple is going to abandon that platform next month with the release of Snow Leopard. OSX 10.6 is going to be Intel only.

Kudos to Clearwire! Mac geeks rejoice!
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randomspecific · 819 weeks ago

True that Intel is the future but A LOT of people still use PowerPC macintosh's still.
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Dave · 818 weeks ago

Works fine for me on Mac Book Pro with Leopard (10.5.4 at the moment). Connection speeds are comparable to what you get with the dongle=>Clearspot.

Am really puzzled that it won't support Snow Leopard - wonder if this is just an omission to the specs. Why not build for what's next? Any real Mac OS developer has already been seeded with Snow Leopard by this point.

I kind of wonder why they didn't just build the "connection manager" into Apple's already pretty decent network management toolset, vs. making you pull up a standalone app just to connect. We don't have to do this for ethernet, WiFi, Firewire or Bluetooth connectivity. Would love to lose the standalone app, or if they MUST do this, make it a toolbar icon.
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wahiggins3 26p · 818 weeks ago

I really can't argue with your comments. I actually agree and have some of the same questions. CLEAR or Clearwire is still really young and I am sure at the moment it is a numbers game. I would hope as time progresses and we get a more Macs on the network that we will see better integration. I have hope because Intel is a major backer of CLEAR and WiMAX. There are already laptops and netbooks on the market that have a more tight fit into the Windows OS. So it may be up to Apple to start providing that more advanced Intel wireless chipset for us to begin to see the type of integration into the Mac OS X.
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E. Harris · 818 weeks ago

It's really irritating -
I just got Clear with the USB modem, was told at the store it would work on Mac, downloaded the driver from the Clear website that says it works on Macs (without any mention of OS version), and it won't install on my Intel/ OSX Tiger (10.4.11) system. Now I find out that it won't work on Snow Leopard (10.6) either, which is coming out in a week or two. There are going to be some people upgrading their OS to 10.6 in a couple weeks who are going to be pissed when their internet stops working with no way to fix it until a new driver is released, whenever that is.

Why did they code the driver this way? There is no plausible reason other than just laziness or incompetence for not compiling it so it will run under Intel OSX 10.4 or later, certainly no reason to tie it to a specific OS version (10.5) that they knew would be supplanted within a couple months by a version for which a developer release is already available. (I question whether simple classes of USB devices on modern OSes should really need drivers at all, let alone a 7.1 MB driver, being serial devices on systems that have extensive support for such devices already built in.)

Couldn't they at least compile driver versions compatible with other OSX versions and make them available on their website? Or at least make the OS version requirements clear on their download page?
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wahiggins3 26p · 818 weeks ago

Are you a developer? You may want to check out http://developer.clear.com. There are some open source efforts going on that could use some help. As more and more users start to catch on to WiMAX the better the development will get. This is still a young company. Let's help with feedback and support.
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kj5311 · 816 weeks ago

I installed the clear connection manager on my macbook pro 10.5.8 and it shows the modem connected but won't connect. Any suggestions
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Hassan Awais · 796 weeks ago

i have installed that application following all the way you have described, but my device does not detecet any wimax network. led remains red, while on windows it turns blue when connected and turned on. please help me in this regard.

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