who has got a third party wireless device working in tiger? what is it?

[thekingofboggle]

i have deemed the dlink to be useless on a mac. does anyone have anything that they're using with tiger succesfully? there's got to be something that works 100%. i have one of the new powermac so i don't think many of the pci options will work because it is pci express. PLEASE HELP!

[ArtP]

Slightly out of date but start here:



Not sure if 10.4.6 breaks anything, but I found a Belkin PC Card for a Powerbook by using this as a reference when I opted not to get raped by finding an internal Airport Card.

The Belkin F5D7011 PCMCIA card cost me about $25 shipped on eBay .vs about $100+ for the original Airport Card.

I know U need a PCI based card, but start there.

EDIT: oops I see u need PCI Express, why not use a Airport Extreme Card? They are fairly cheap on eBay ($30-50)Which Mac do U have?

[Jimmypoo]

What DLink? a DWL-122 or similar? What driver did you use?

[thekingofboggle]

yeah, dwl-122 i tried it with the dlink driver and the prism one-no luck

[PeterB]

DWL-122 worked fine for me with either 1.4.5 or 1.4.7 version of drivers

Also, just about any PCI card would work, if you could use them

Also, many of the wireless-Ethernet options should work, e.g., Belkin or for that matter, using an Airport Base Station as a wireless-ethernet adapter (I still haven't figured out myself how to do it, but it is supposed to be possible, and the Base Stations have been going for next-to-nothing on ebay...)

[Phy]

NetGear cable router-- works fine with my G-5, G-4 and G-3 iBook.
Also used a NetGear USB wireless dongle (or whatever it's called) to attach a friend's laptop (a Powerbook) to my network temporarily.

[jimbrady]

Netgear router--think they all work.

[mattkime]

In my experience, third party drivers suck. if you stick with broadcom based devices they'll work with apple's airport drivers. Now, i don't think any of those are made that will work with your machine. pcmcia cards for the powerbook, but nothing PCI-Express.