They are platform independent. However, Apple's airport extreme card
only takes Broadcom's 802.11G chip. So, if you want to use a card
that's compatible, you need to get one that uses a Broadcom chip -
you can check the card manufacturer on Broadcom website.
If you use a card that don't use the Broadcom chip, you will need to
get a driver, and Orangeware is one of the companies that provides
drivers for the non-Broadcom chip. I put a D-Link 802.11G PCI card
into my Yikes! and it recognized it in OSX right away. However, I
believe D-Link has been using different vendors lately - so, if you
got one of those that advertise 108Mbps instead of the noraml 56
Mbps, you got a card that uses the non-Broadcom chip and will need to
get the Orangeware driver for it.
Sherman
On Aug 20, 2005, at 10:23 PM, ta131js wrote:
On Aug 20, 2005, at 6:13 PM, Harry Freeman wrote:
I believe that this PCI card is for use in a WINTEL platform only.
See;
<http://www.dlink.com/products/support.asp?pid=308&pv=66&sec=0>
and
<http://www.dlink.com/products/support.asp?pid=308&pv=65&sec=0>
It sure looks that way from these links.
I thought these things were platform independent.
Silly me.
Hope Best Buy takes it back.
Thanks Harry.
Jim
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