3G Mobile Broadband Internet

Setting Up Chricket A600 USB WiMax Device

This device seems to act as a flash drive first and a wireless card second, these instructions explain how to make it switch.

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Download the .tar.gz file from here and extract the contents to your preferred directory using the following command Cricket_Mode_Switch.tar.gz

Open up terminal and enter the following command

   tar xzvf Cricket_Mode_Switch.tar.gz

and use cd to change into the directory of the extracted files.

32 bit Users - Install usb_modeswitch with the following command (precompiled):

sudo make install

64 bit Users - We need to recompile modeswitch to work on the 64bit platform. Run the following commands in terminal to do so

sudo apt-get install build-essential
sudo apt-get install libusb-dev
rm usb_modeswitch
make
sudo make install 

Plug in your Cricket A600 to an open USB port, wait a moment for it to be detected as a CD drive/the auto play menu to pop up. Now we just need to execute the flipflop.sh, it is in the directory of files you extracted, by running the following command

sudo ./flipflop.sh

Please note you need to first make this file executable by running the following command

chmod +x flipflop.sh

After running the flipflop.sh you need to wait about 12 seconds and then poof! Your Cricket device should now appear in your network manager as a connection option.

Useful Notes

You will need to

sudo flipflop.sh

each time you attach the device for it to work.