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 have since removed the driver from my website, too many people needing it, and I didn’t need the overhead bandwidth. You can find it here: http://vzam.net
When asked for the phone number of your device, enter 000-000-0000.
TY for posting this been looking on the intrenet for over an hour to get this.. every time i get a new laptop i got through the problem of getting this modem to work.. got mine from Alltel but this should work… it still ask for your phone number when you download it though, gotta love these cell phone companies..
Thanks for this. We are on vacation and I’m trying to figure out if I can use my husband’s wireless Pantech UM175 on my laptop and have been searching for the driver as well. I tried your link but only saw a Pantech (can’t remember now, but not 175). Do you have any more information on where to find it once I get to the http://vzam.net site?
Thanks again.
Any drivers on the vzam site that require a phone number to download, should accept 000-000-0000. I don’t think they actually authenticate the number against anything.
I ran into a similar problem with a printer I had which worked fine in Vista, but didn’t work in 7 after I upgraded. I downloaded the Windows 7 software suite from the manufacturer’s site. Guess what! There was no driver included! I even redownloaded and reinstalled with the same results. What are these companies thinking, releasing software suites with no drivers for their products?
Anyway, the driver you downloaded from VZAM’s site, is it for Win Vista or Win 7? I have the Win 7 driver for this modem, which I have purchased online.
Actually that is the site for the official drivers. Which ever they offer is all. They should be available for XP, Vista, and I would think Windows 7 by now.
The Verizon Pantech driver problem is legendary. They will distribute a version WITHOUT the drivers embedded. Kinda boggling. Yea, they don’t check for the number at
http://vzam.net/download/download.aspx?productid=263
Just put anything in and BAM. Driver too :)
LMAO!!!!!—–so I read your ‘story’ it’s a Sunday morning and I just wanted to get this ‘re-installed’ lost the CD..so after downloading v6x and then doing a update to 7.2.1.2 doing ‘MULTIPLE’ finds of the device putting it in GOD ONLY KNOWS every USB port I can find-disabling have my PC — I find this…..so I’m downloading the 3rd time a version that I hope to GOD has the drivers — who installs a app WITHOUT drivers
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