On 18 Jun, 2004, at 02:31, G-Books wrote:
A Pismo has only an internal regular AirPort card slot. AirPort (the 1st
generation) only supports 802.11b. If you want to use 802.11g, then you will
need to buy a 3rd party card and make sure they provide a driver for the OS
you want to use it with. This 3rd party card will be a PCMCIA card, so you
will need to plug it into the PCMCIA slot of your Pismo.
I haven't heard about any 3rd party 802.11g card that works in OS X right
now. That is not to say that it doesn't exist, but I haven't heard about
any. You could check the driver of IOExpert.com. They sell a driver that
supports a wide range of 802.11b card in OS X. Maybe they do support 802.11g
cards as well, I don't know.
I think that it will be hard to find anything 802.11g for OS 9. The OS
hasn't been updated in over 2 years and Apple has clearly stated that it's a
dead-end. So, most manufacturers and software developers focus their
resources for OS X and you're more likely to get support for 802.11g for OS
X only. However, you do have to remember that with OS X having maybe 2% or
3% of the computer market, few wireless equipment makers provide drivers
even for OS X. That's where IOExpert might come handy...
-Laurent.
Hi Laurent and all,
I hesitate to contribute further to this long thread, BUT, I have spoken to Buffalo (UK) this a.m. and their Tech guys say that "a Buffalo WLI-CB-G54A Airstation PCMCIA Card (802.11g and backwards compatible to 802.11b) will work in a Pismo G3/400, running Mac OS X, as Airport and Buffalo use the same chipset, hence the Airport software is OK, and no drivers needed". (Hope they're right for me and anyone else who decides to go this way!)
Based on this, I have bought one for my Pismo G3/400 Mac OSX 10.3.3) and it's on its way.
Cheers --
Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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