USB Wireless dongle

[mmace]

Hi guys, I was wondering if I could buy a USB Wireless dongle that would work in a new G4 iBook or do I have to buy the AirPort made by apple. The reason I am asking is that I cannot afford the AirPort card, but I can afford a £15 ($30) USB wireless USB dongle.

Do these work on the mac or not?

That's all I want to know, just if the Mac OS X will see it, and then install it


thanks in advance for any help

[PS2Daddy]

Hi guys, I was wondering if I could buy a USB Wireless dongle that would work in a new G4 iBook or do I have to buy the AirPort made by apple. The reason I am asking is that I cannot afford the AirPort card, but I can afford a £15 ($30) USB wireless USB dongle.

Do these work on the mac or not?

That's all I want to know, just if the Mac OS X will see it, and then install it


thanks in advance for any helpThis is the only one that I know of that will work (cant tell you how well they will work though)
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=589853&Sku=D700-2218%20P&CatId=369

Also look at the apple refurb page they have the 1st gen airport cards for about $59 might even be able to find them cheaper on ebay

[PS2Daddy]

Just found out that Belkin makes one that has mac drivers also

[mmace]

I bought the D-Link one a few weeks ago. Works fine on the PC, on the Mac (OS X 10.3.3) it drops the connection every couple of minutes (so cannot do any downloads or use messenger etc) and every hour or so it needs unplugging & plugging back in which 75% of the time freezes the Mac (Never been able to crash a Mac before!!!)

I have latest drivers etc and D-Link tech support just say that it should work and are not willing to help.

any idea's?

[PS2Daddy]

I bought the D-Link one a few weeks ago. Works fine on the PC, on the Mac (OS X 10.3.3) it drops the connection every couple of minutes (so cannot do any downloads or use messenger etc) and every hour or so it needs unplugging & plugging back in which 75% of the time freezes the Mac (Never been able to crash a Mac before!!!)

I have latest drivers etc and D-Link tech support just say that it should work and are not willing to help.

any idea's?
Cant say that I know of anything that would help a refurbished airport card shouldnt have been much more than the belkin adaptor you might have to get one of those instead

Sorry :(

I will look and see if other people have run into this problem and see if I can find a solution for you though

[PS2Daddy]

Cant say that I know of anything that would help a refurbished airport card shouldnt have been much more than the belkin adaptor you might have to get one of those instead

Sorry :(

I will look and see if other people have run into this problem and see if I can find a solution for you though

Read this
http://discussions.info.apple.com/webx?13@137.x4xFagfqlwy.3@.689311f7/1

and this

http://discussions.info.apple.com/webx?13@137.x4xFagfqlwy.3@.68904b39/21

[mmace]

I haven't tried it yet, but D-Link have just sent me the beta 1.4.5 drivers to try, if anyone else wants to try as well, I have uploaded them for you to download (1.1Mb):
http://www.apvx02.dsl.pipex.com/DWL122.tar