wireless cards that work in 10.2? (non-airport)

well, I'm writing this using an Orinoco
Silver card on a Lombard (10.2.1) w/ the
wirelessdriver.sourceforge.net driver suite.

it even VPN's suprisingly enough.

Cisco is highly commited to the mac platform so my hunch is when, not if they are going to update the 350 drivers. Probably October/November.

I also have an Orinoco card in mine using the sourceforge drivers and it works fine, with one exception. No support for AppleTalk. My printer is on AppleTalk and it has been a major pain not being able to print wireless.

Thanks, guys. I will take a look at the Orinoco, and I have also seen that Asante has posted 10.2 drivers for its AeroLAN or FriendlyLAN or whatever it is called card. I don't use Appletalk, so that is not a problem for me.

Paul S -- are you using the "silver" Orinoco, as well? I see that the "gold" is only partially supporting WEP in the WirelessDriver.

thanks!

I'm pretty sure those Asante drivers are for internal PCI cards, not CardBus/PCMCIA

Cisco just released to the public the
drivers for the 350 card for Jaguar.

http://www.cisco.com/pcgi-bin/table...ronet-utils-mac

Could someone tell me which Cisco Aironet 350 card to use in a G4 Powerbook 667. There seem to be at least two 350 cards--one in a PCMCIA form factor and another in a PCI form factor. I'm not technical enough to understand the terminology.

Here is a page from the Cisco site:

http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/cc...it/a350c_ds.htm

Why would you use *either* ????

Why wouldn't you use the builtin Airport
slot and simply get an Airport card?

You would use the PCMCIA style.

I have an airport card inside the Tibook. Like a gazillion others reporting on various forums, I get terrible range with airport in the Tibook. (The reigning theory is that the metal casing interferes with the tiny internal antennas attached to the airport card.) Many have reported significant range extensions by using a Cisco card in the external "PC card" slot.

Knowing that, would you still say PCMCIA?

The PCI card installs like a video card in a PowerMac and holds the PCMCIA card. The PCMCIA card is the equallivalent of the AirPort card. To use the PCMCIA card in a PowerMac you need the PCI card to hold it, but the PCMCIA card simply slips into the slot of a PowerBook like the Ti Book. Cisco refers to the PCMCIA card as the "wireless adapter". The pc cards, or adapters, that you would use with a laptop are plentiful on eBay and sell for $100 or less.

Here's an eBay auction for the pc card alone like you'd use in your laptop: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dl...item=2056064867

Here's an auction for the PCI card + pc card like the one I have in my B&W PowerMac: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dl...item=2056740554

thanks! caught it. Go Cisco.

Mike

Actually, a properly installed AirPort card in a TiBook should get fairly good range, though not the same range as an iBook. There is NO antenna on that card, just a connector for the antennas built into the TiBook's case (on the base near the front of the keyboard, if I recall correctly). The problem the TiBook has, when compared to an iBook, is that titanium case-it distorts the antenna patterns and thus degrades operation. There are certain orientations between TiBook and base station that work better than others, and elevating your base station to above eye level can help too. You just need to experiment with which direction relative to your base station your TiBook seems to see the base station best.

Other than the Apple Airport card, are there any other cards that I can install inside of my Pismo, under 10.2.1, and use the built in antennas?

The reason I'm asking is that my school has complete botched their wireless network and I have to use a Cisco card to access the wireless network. I'm curious if a CISCO AIR-LMC352, could be installed inside of my powerbook. The CISCO AIR-LMC352, has the same form factor has an Airport card.

Thanks for any info.

Only a true AirPort card will fit in the internal slots in iMacs, iBooks, TiBooks, etc. These cards are not really PC cards, and they have no antennas, only a connector for the built in antennas in the computer. I think the iMac needs a special bracket, too.

The Cisco card will work (if there are drivers for your version of MacOS) in a PC card slot, but again, nothing but an AirPort card will fit in the internal AirPort card slot.

I am using the Silver card.