On 19 Jun, 2004, at 12:53, G-Books wrote:
Let us know if it works in OS X without a driver. That would be a first!
-Laurent.
Hi Laurent and all,
Regarding the Buffalo Airstation WLI-CB-G54A-3 54Mpbs Cardbus, 802.11g and 80211.b. I received it yesterday and I was on the air with it in literally 2 minutes.
You may recall I was attempting to use it in a Pismo G3/400, running Mac OS X 10.3.3.
Sequence was:
Downloaded/installed the latest version of Airport (3.4.1) - opened it.
Inserted the card and ran the Airport Setup Assistant. After configuration, it put up two icons in the menu bar - one is for powering the card on/off and the other gives signal strength and turns Airport on or off, plus you can get to Internet Connect by clicking on it in the dropdown menu.
(Use this if you haven't opened Airport already).
I was about 50-60 feet away from my son's G5, which was on the air with Broadband. The card saw his (named) network straight away, with fives on the signal strength. I opened Safari and was immediately on to the Macsurfer site. I then opened Software Update and downloaded all those large file updates that were too big for my 56k dialup connection.
Couldn't have been simpler.
A few points. The Airstation package comes with a CDROM for Windoze - use it for your tea/coffee mug - it's of no use whatsoever to a Mac user and you don't need it.
Check System Profile - click on "Airport Card" and you should get "Airport Card Information - Wireless Card Type - Third Party Wireless Card", if it's setup OK.
When you have finished with surfing/downloading, ensure that you CLOSE AIRPORT FIRST, before powering off the card and ejecting it. I didn't the first time and had a system crash (kernel panic). No probs if you close Airport first.
Make sure you buy the G54A-3 card - there are cards with somewhat similar numbers that may not work.
I downloaded 10.3.4 and installed it - and tried all again today - no probs at the moment. Haven't tried it further away than 50-60 feet from the network yet.
I did open the CDROM on an old Windows laptop - just to see what is on there. There is an FAQ section which answers the question "can you use the card with Apple/Macs?" (It says "yes"). Ignore all of the answers, as they were written in 2001 and woefully out of date (and badly spelled!). The answers given are the sort of ques/answer session you get on a Windoze troubleshooting page! I did install the card on the Windoze 98 machine and it took about 30 minutes using the CDROM!
Finally, the www.buffalo-technology.com Website actually says that this card (and some others) supports Mac PBs running 10.2.6 and up, if you do a search on "Mac OS X".
For any UK reader - the cheapest I could find in UK for the card was 35.85 (VAT incl) UKP, next day delivery from eXpansys in Manchester. www.expansys.com
PC World have it, but it's about 46 UKP.
Interested to hear of anyone else using this card and also the experience of the guy who bought two other brands of cards
Regards to all
-- Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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