On Apr 14, 2005, at 10:58 AM, Anne Judge wrote:Except on the Belkin card . . . they changed their chipset before updating the info on their site. Or, apparently, briefing their tech support people, based on my memory of some posts here.
On Apr 14, 2005, at 12:47 PM, Deaner Lawless wrote:
Anne,
I did the search today on both sites. I used keywords like Mac, Macintosh, Apple, OSX, OS10, ect. None pointed to this card. I was only able to find the OS info after searching for the model number. Are you saying the chipset in the units on the shelves today aren't mac compatible?
dklj
No, I'm talking about a year ago, when they changed from the Broadcom chipset (OS 9 & X compatible, airport drivers) to the Ralink chipset (OS X Ralink drivers only), but didn't have that info available on the web for a while.
I remember a post where someone on this list got one and it wouldn't work with the airport drivers, but (if I remember correctly) the web site or tech support insisted it should. By the time I got mine, I don't know if Belkin had updated their site (though I did get mine expecting it would work with the Airport drivers, based on old posts on this list; I hadn't read the one I mention above yet), but people on this list were able to point me to the correct drivers.
Hey, wait, their web site says now "Mac OSŪ X v10.2.6 with AirPortŪ installer 3.0.4, or Mac OSŪ X v10.3" - but I thought that Airport requirement was for Broadcom - am I confused, or are they still putting out old information, or have they changed chipsets again?
http://catalog.belkin.com/IWCatProductPage.process? Merchant_Id=&Section_Id=201522&pcount=&Product_Id=136500
Their PDF manual is entirely Windows-oriented, so that's useless.
They do have remarkable bad online support!!!
Anne
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