Getting the AT&T Quicksilver USB HSDPA working on a Mac

As a note to future self and to anyone else coming home with AT&T’s QuickSilver USB HSPDA modem I’ve just jotted down my notes about it here.

The official name for this is the Option Icon 322. The helpful AT&T staff says to go the option web site to download the drivers for the Mac.

Going to the Icon 322 Download Page you get this helpful screen:

After some experimenting I discovered that the Icon 225 Download Page looked promissing. I downloaded the Mac version of their GlobeTrotter software.

Once you start installing it you will see this screen:

Make sure to ignore the instructions and insert the modem before you go any further.

Once this is installed run the application “GlobeTrotter Connect”. Before you connect you need to go to the Preferences and click on the “3G/EDGE/GPRS” tab and enter “ISP.CINGULAR” in the APN field so it looks like mine below:

Now you should be able to connect. It took way to much fiddling to get to these steps.

Warning if you have installed the tools following their instructions without the device inserted, you need to uninstall it completely and try again.