[Tfug] Airport card for Mac G3

[Brian Zaugg]

A company named Orange Ware Software Design makes wireless drivers
for Macs. I use this on my PowerBook with a DLink 650AG card at home.
This link lists the cards that Orange Ware supports:

http://www.orangeware.com/endusers/wirelessformac.html

-Brian

On 1/25/07, Anthony Hess <runenfool at gmail.com> wrote:
> I was going to say that I thought you could find a driver for an Orinoco
> card.  Airport cards are hard to find and expensive since Apple stopped
> making them (boo) when they introduced their g products.  If you can get
> that driver working thats what I would do (unless you find a smokin deal on
> an airport - the last time I checked you were going to pay at least 60-80
> bucks).  Its not as pretty as the internal, but at least you can find one
> cheap.  You might also see what other cards are compatible with the base OS
> - maybe you can find a whole new unit on ebay cheaper than 20?  I would
> expect a b card on ebay wouldn't fetch much.
>
> Tony
>
>
> On 1/25/07, Paul Scott <waterhorse at ultrasw.com> wrote:
> >
> > Paul Scott wrote:
> > > rfs_lists at mac.com wrote:
> > >
> > >> On Jan 24, 2007, at 4:52 pm, Paul Scott wrote:
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>> I just bought a used G3 PowerBook and need a wireless card.  Is it
> > >>> true
> > >>> that I must use an Airport card?  If so, does anyone have one for a
> > >>> reasonable price?
> > >>>
> > >> Hi Paul,
> > >>
> > >> Not at all. http://forums.macosxhints.com/showthread.php?t=14799
> > >> Seems you'd be better off with a newer card that does 802.11g as well
> > >> as b, such as this: http://www.sonnettech.com/product/
> > >> aria_extreme.html -- $80.
> > >>
> > >>
> > > Price is more important than 11g at this point.  I would rather pay much
> > > less that $80 right now.  I'm looking on eBay right now.
> > >
> > I'm bidding on an Airport card but I also found that IOXPerts has a
> > driver for $20 that seems to work with my Orinoco Silver.  I'll have to
> > get near a wireless source to verify.
> >
> > Paul
> >
> >
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-- 
-Brian