Re: [NTLK] Wireless support in X

From: John Skinner (john_at_johnskinner.net)
Date: Mon Jul 08 2002 - 02:58:49 EDT


I have a Dual 1 Ghz PowerMac and I put my WaveLAN Silver in the AirPort slot
and booted up into OSX,... Everything works just fine.

It shows up as an AirPort card!

On 7/8/02 12:47 AM, "Jim Witte" <jswitte_at_bloomington.in.us> wrote:

>
>> core of your OS is open source, after all. And thank goodness, as
>> Apple
>> decided for some silly-ass reason NOT to support WaveLAN cards
>> themselves
>> in OS X (they did in OS 9; WaveLAN/Orinoco cards showed up as AirPort
>
> The general consensus I've heard is that they want people to buy the
> Airport card, which IS a silly-ass reason - they could at least support
> the WaveLan if you already HAVE an Airport (I'd like to use a WaveLan
> with a TiBook to get better reception.)
>

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