Going wireless without an AirPort card

Aug 20, '02 01:07:05AM

Contributed by: Anonymous

Since I own a PB "Lombard" (bronze), I can't use an Airport card from Apple. "Thanks Apple." Apple suggested I buy a newer PowerBook, or they recommended a WaveLan card from Asante costing $129 and which may not work with OSX.

Short of either of those options, I found drivers that support PRISM & PRISM II chipset PC cards, and then I bought a $42 PC wireless card from Linksys. OSX drivers for the Linksys PC-card are found at Rob McKeever's mac.com page.

So far everthing works great, minus WEP. Best of all, it is free. NOTE: These drivers break in Jaguar and will probably require an update to function again.

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