Setting up the Lenovo Telenor Broadband Connection on Windows 7

I'm on Flesland right now and decided to get the free trial for the Telenor Turbo 3G for Lenovo a go. After applying here Telenor will instruct you to use Thinkvantage Access Connections to get online but this won't work with Windows 7 (or it might be the 64x version).

However all you need to do is to set up a new dial up connection in windows. Use *99# as phone number and the telephone number associated with the SIM card (screenshot) for as username and password. Connect and you're ready and blogging from the airport:)

Bandwidth seems nice so far..

UPDATE: I got the thing working the first time, but after returning home the connection didn't seem to work anymore. I kept getting an error message from the dial-up connection saying Error 734: The PPP Link Control Protocol Terminated.  I wasn't able to get any useful support from Telenor on this, and a lot of googling led me to reinstall the drivers and trying every possible PPP setting. None of this helped. Finally I realized that the Mobile Broadband Connect program (the one used for fetching the IMEI number etc) did some fancy initialization of the Broadband card. Tried to start that program and then connect, but that made the PPP connection fail due to the modem beeing in use. Now I closed the Mobile Broadband Connect app and reconnected.

So; Before connecting with the dialup connection you need to run the Mobile Broadband Connection software once. 

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  • Did you end up downloading a 64-bit version of the Mobile Broadband Connect software? Where did you find it? I'm also setting up Windows 7 on a brand-new T400s, and built-in 3G is a very nice to have feature.

    Thanks for any other "Windows 7 + Lenovo" tips you might have!

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