10.3: Airport Extreme and third-party cards on older Macs

Jan 19, '04 10:46:00AM

Contributed by: Anonymous

I don't remember it being mentioned that in addition to generic Linksys PC card 802.11g wireless being supported by Airport software, PCI cards appear to be also supported. I have a Mirror Door dual 1 gig Powermac with 10.2.8 and 10.3.2 on it and Network Preferences -> Airport works quite nicely with the Linksys WMP54G 802.11g PCI card.

The only issue so far is the angle of the antenna is somewhat limited by the deeply inset PCI card ports. Next stop, trying their USB Wireless adapters. My understanding is that OS 9 and pre-10.2.6 would still require 3rd party software if it works at all.

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