KingPIN

Fast PIN entry for PIN-enabled SIM-cards in UMTS modems.

What?

If your SIM card is PIN-enabled you know that you have to enter your PIN every time you connect your UMTS modem to your mac. That's what the app does.

King Pin Screenshot

Why?

OS X lacks an PIN prompt when you try to connect over an USB UMTS modem with an PIN-enabled SIM card inserted.

At least this is true for my Huawei e270 UMTS modem. So to enter the PIN I have to start Huawei's bloated java-app first. (Or was it a Rosetta app?)

How?

Luckily sending the PIN to the modem is just a simple AT-command so I wrote this little cocoa app.

Which modems are supported?

KingPIN works with the Huawei e270 USB UMTS modem and should work with any other USB UMTS modem. (That does the PIN authentication through the AT+CPIN command.)

e270 specific

You'll need the Huawei OS X drivers installed.
You can find them here (10.6 drivers): e270 drivers zip from huawei

Risks?

Don't try too many wrong PINs. It will disable your SIM (it did for me when I was testing error handling) and you will have to unlock it with a PUK code. Depending on your provider this might be troublesome.

License?

BSD

Links

Source Code Repository at GitHub: http://github.com/jsz/KingPIN
Binary Download for OS X 10.6: kingpin_10_6.zip