Verizon / Pantech UM175 Driver

April 14th, 2009 | Categories: Downloads, Software | Tags: , ,

So I was asked to visit the CEOs house today to work on a small network problem and get her printer up and running and such. After all this was done, she brings me her son’s laptop with a Verizon USB Cellular Modem and asks if I can install it for her. I have no real problem doing this so I load up the laptop and it has the software already installed! Alright, so I execute the software and it asks me to plug in the device, I do so and then it asks for a driver.

…What? Alright the software was installed, but there is no driver? Fine. I visit Google, type in Verizon UM175 Driver and all I get are shitty websites trying to get me to buy something, fill out my email, put in a credit card number to download the driver. Hm, no.

Well I come to find out that you can only get this driver directly from Verizon’s Website. Fine. I visit, search for UM175 and it comes up. I click to download and it asks my Operating System, USB or PCMCIA, and then it asks for the Cell Phone number of the card. Why? I just need the fucking driver. So I have to call up the corporate office and speak to our telecommunications guy, I give him the serial and he looks everything up and gives me the phone number, which was nowhere to be found on the USB modem itself.

So I put in the number and the driver downloads and that’s really all, it works fine. My point is, why is it so difficult to get a driver for this device? Phone number to download? Why, do you need to make sure it’s your card to get this generic driver? Odd since even Pantech’s website does not have the driver. Anyway, just to piss anyone off at Verizon or Pantech I have the driver available to anyone here, hopefully you will find this site before you dig around and have to call for help.

I can no longer handle the file bandwidth load these two drivers require, but from visitors comments, I have tested and the phone number 000-000-0000 does work to download the drivers. You can find them all on the VZAccess Manager website: http://vzam.net.

  Pantech UM175 USB Wireless Card Driver (15.5 MiB, 6,428 hits)
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  1. Jim
    April 16th, 2009 at 09:59
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    I totally agree with you!!

    Thanks for the driver :)

  2. Jerome
    April 18th, 2009 at 01:17
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    Thank you!!! ^___^ you’re a big help, I’ve been looking for this driver.

  3. Cory
    April 19th, 2009 at 16:38
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    Thanks, helps a lot. Completely agree!

  4. Danny
    April 27th, 2009 at 13:38
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    Thanks, I too went through all the different sites only to get to verizon and get asked for the phone number. This is great! Thanks!

  5. Jackson
    April 28th, 2009 at 00:25
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    I totally agree with you thanks a lot for the driver. I don’t know why they had to make it so hard to just get a damn driver for this kind of device.

  6. Jared
    May 1st, 2009 at 15:25
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    You Rock Sir

  7. Kris
    May 1st, 2009 at 19:19
    Reply | Quote | #7

    Thanks for the help here, it’s nice when people do something they don’t have to for the benefit of others. Cheers.

  8. Joe
    May 5th, 2009 at 10:19
    Reply | Quote | #8

    Much Appreciated! Thank you.

  9. Tommy
    May 8th, 2009 at 14:28
    Reply | Quote | #9

    Thanks man and I agree this should not be the way to get the driver. They sure like taking your money though…..

  10. Pauline
    May 9th, 2009 at 16:04
    Reply | Quote | #10

    @Jim
    Thank you very much. You are so thoughtful and kind to share this.

  11. Utah-L0U
    May 10th, 2009 at 10:50
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    Thanks for the download!
    Even more frustrating is being required to install their stupid app just to get the driver.
    All you need is a standard Dial-Up modem network connection; use #777 for the phone number. No need for all their extra junk.

    Thanks again mate!

  12. glenn miller
    May 13th, 2009 at 21:23
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    Thanks guy!! Been searching for this for weeks! Every web site I went to wanted money for something, what a scam, need more people like you around to keep the scammers at bay.

  13. vark
    May 18th, 2009 at 14:56
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    I also didn’t have the cell phone number associated with my device, but I just made up a phone number and it worked fine… don’t know why

  14. IR021
    May 20th, 2009 at 02:02
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    Thank you very much, and I agree with you, why so much junk shit, just give you the download link. ;)

  15. Spike
    May 20th, 2009 at 10:32
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    You don’t actually need to install anything to get the driver out of this package. I used Universal Extractor (free from http://legroom.net/software/uniextract) to dump out the contents of the Wise Installer (use the E_Wise Unpacker option). It creates a series of nested folders that contain all the files inside the installer.

    In the MAINDIR folder is another folder called Drivers\UM175. Inside that folder is a Setup.exe — use UniExtract on that as well, and navigate down into $Temp and DGRX700, and you’ve got the folder at which you can point Windows to load all the drivers.

    Windows wants to load drivers for four separate components, but this makes it much easier than installing a bunch of software you don’t want.

    Lest I forget, thanks to the original poster. Truly stupid software distribution, Verizon.

  16. PB
    May 27th, 2009 at 03:24
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    Much Appreciated! Thank you.

  17. Tony
    June 4th, 2009 at 15:12
    Reply | Quote | #17

    Thanks!!! (Truly stupid software distribution!!!)

  18. Dennie
    June 13th, 2009 at 12:10
    Reply | Quote | #18

    Thanks,

    I too was searching and was getting nowhere. Much appreciated, and yes, you rock

  19. Mark
    June 13th, 2009 at 13:46
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    Thank you so much. I am IT help for a company and one of my service managers had no other way to connect to the internet (therefore could not locate the drivers which are so damn elusive), and this saved me twenty minutes of BS on the phone with Verizon.

    Can’t thank people like you enough!!

  20. John
    June 15th, 2009 at 16:37
    Reply | Quote | #20

    I work for an IT company and this helped me get a driver for one of our field reps…thanks to good resources like this I can do my job effectively!

  21. Perret
    June 16th, 2009 at 16:04
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    Thanks, saved me a lot of hassle during a re installation.

  22. Adam
    June 21st, 2009 at 23:14
    Reply | Quote | #22

    Thanks for making this driver available!

  23. Jared
    June 22nd, 2009 at 22:56
    Reply | Quote | #23

    Thanks alot this was a real save

  24. Anna
    June 25th, 2009 at 11:26
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    Thank you so much for figuring out which files in the extractor were the drivers, Spike. You saved me a lot of time and effort. Whoever wrote the crappy software for Vista should be shot. On my machine, there was no other way to get the drivers onto the computer except extracting them; even installing the software wouldn’t do a proper driver installation. I was *beyond* fed up when I found this post, and it solved the problem in five minutes, so thanks.

  25. Mutiny Brewing
    June 30th, 2009 at 16:44
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    Thanks so much. This was VERY helpful!

  26. Wesley
    June 30th, 2009 at 23:22
    Reply | Quote | #26

    THANK YOU!!! It worked and I experienced all the same troubles trying to find this cursed driver!! Very appreciated!

  27. Anish
    July 3rd, 2009 at 00:02
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    Thanks.. this is indeed really helpful and something that verizon should improve upong

    Thanks

  28. Vanessa
    July 3rd, 2009 at 22:22
    Reply | Quote | #28

    After several google searches I was like what the heck, it just a driver.. Man you rock! Thanks for sharing.

  29. Jim
    July 7th, 2009 at 17:52
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    Verizon owes you a couple thousand bucks. I was just going to early terminate the contract, until I found your post. Good Luck collecting it though.

  30. Amy
    July 10th, 2009 at 00:33
    Reply | Quote | #30

    Thank you, thank you. The stupid CD-ROM included with device didnt do squat. Your download fixed the problem. I fraking hate Verizon.

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