> Or you could buy the OEM Apple antenna plus a set of the correct Apple had > drive screws from me, shipped USPS Priority Mail from Eureka CA. How much > do you want to pay for that?
The WiFi cards usually have one, two or three U.Fl connectors. Two is the most common for cards used on Apple machines. The (external) antennas themselves usually have a RP-SMA connector. One antenna is usually sufficient, but two can be better than one. Cables with a U.FL connector on one end and an RP.SMA connector on the other are available in quite a number of lengths from ePay (sic) sellers. For my Shuttle small form factor machines which usually have a fast 4-core Intel processor and run MacOS X, I need a 12" internal cable to connect the WiFi card to the antenna. The Shuttles all have knockouts which accommodate the RP-SMA connector (and therefore the antenna), and the other end connects directly to the WiFi card (either Broadcom 94322, for early examples, or Realtek 8187 or Atheros, for late examples). Apple supplies drivers for Broadcom and Atheros WiFI cards, but the plist usually has to be edited to enable the cards. For the Atheros, Apple uses id=2a, but all the Atheros cards which are sold on ePay are id=2b. Then there are USB WiFi cards with integral or detachable antennas, and Apple even has drivers for those, as long as the card is Realtek-based. -- -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "G-Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to g3-5-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
