How to get your Huawei airtel dongle to work with OS X Yosemite

I've been using a Huawei E3272 4G dongle,(might be exclusive to the operator airtel service in India). with service provider software as it was minimal and provided everything I needed to connect and go online.

Everything worked fine until Apple released their new OS X Yosemite ; it is a cool operating system with a lot of new features and best thing was it's offered for  free upgrade form OS_X_Mavericks to OS X Yosemite! What more can you ask?

So I went ahead and upgraded the OS of my mac, checked out the software’s I had and pretty much everything worked fine until I opened up the Huawei airtel dongle software, it's not compatible with OS X Yosemite well that's a bummer!

Having seeing the incompatible issue, I went ahead with and downloaded Airtel dongle connection manager  software, but that didn't even recognized my 4G dongle. Tried the software from Huawei and I ended up with the same issue, it does not identify my dongle. After going through numerous Apple discussion forums; I found a solution finally.

If your Huawei dongle not working on Mac OSX Yosemite, Here is a workaround until your service provider releases an updated dialer.

Please follow below steps to get your Huawai 4G or 3G dongle to work with OS X Yosemite:

Step 1:

Click on this link to download the new compitable driver from Huawei website 

Step 2:  Open the archive, you will find two files

1. Mobile Partner install user guide.docx
2. Mobile Partner.zip

Open the zip file Mobile Partner.zip, you will find Mobile Partner.app. Double click on this file to install the app in your new OS X Yosemite.

Step 3:  Once installation finish, start the app and go to Tools -> Options to create an profile manually.

In the Options window, select “Profile Management” from the left side menu

Click on “New” button to create a new profile. Give it a name, such as “airtel 4g”. Also, make sure the “Access Number” is set to *99#. Click “Save”, then “Ok”

Step 4:  Insert your Dongel into an USB port. You should see “Mobile Partner” application starting automatically. Choose the profile you created (airtel 4g) and “Connect”.

That's it!!