On Thursday, April 21, 2005, at 08:00 AM, Justin The Cynical wrote:
Brian wrote:
For popular chipsets with opensource support, aren't there usually OS X drivers that work fine?
Not that I've seen actually, and I did look.
For example, Belkin has the PC Card F5D6010 and no drivers, but it's really a common manufacturer, relabeled as Belkin ( I forget which but google will say) , and OS X drviers are available. I just researched this for a friend with a OS X laptop and this Belkin card, but haven't heard about how the driver install went yet (or if you access thru Airport or other).
Hmmm, I don't see that card listed anywhere. There is a F5D6010, which appears to be a Prism2 chipset. Sure, there are drivers for Linux and the *BSD's under an open source licence, but I don't see anything for Mac OS 10 that is free.
Sorry, F5D7010 was the PC Card that my friend was looking for. I found OS X drivers here, from the actual chipset manufacturer, no help from Belkin:
http://www.ralinktech.com/drivers/Mac/STA_2500CardBus%20D-1.0.5.0%20UI- 1.0.8.0%202004_10_06.zip
main site of course: http://www.ralinktech.com/home.asp
Since OS X is BSD, life is a lot easier now re: drivers for anything with an open source connection.
I found a great list of OS 10 compatible WiFi cards: http://home.earthlink.net/~metaphyzx/Wireless.htm
It's fairly current. This is what I used to decide which card I got for my machine.
That's a handy summary.
-Brian
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