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so...im thinking of moving from mac back to pc!

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  • #32
    ZENER
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,167 ✭✭✭ZENER


    portomar wrote: »
    WHY IS THIS SO HARD? my mac is about 2 months old, and i didnt have the option to buy it with my unit.

    Where did you buy the MacPro ? The Apple Store offers the Airport card as an option as posted above.
    . . . im about ready to throw the thing out the window.

    . . . and your address is . . . . :D

    ZEN


  • #33
    papu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,356 ✭✭✭papu


    so it doesnt just work? unlucky , at least with a pc you can hack mostly everything to work


  • #34
    Inspector Gadget
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,393 ✭✭✭Inspector Gadget


    Eh, for what it's worth, there are a bunch of internal PCI cards that are meant for PCs that "just work" with Macs. I'm typing this on a PowerMac G5 (the pre-Intel equivalent of your box, same honkin' big aluminium case and so on) and I'm using a Buffalo WLI2-PCI-G54 I picked up a while back in PC World which (though it says *absolutely nothing* about Macintosh compatibility - in fact, I originally bought it for a PC) works perfectly, with no need for drivers or anything - I think it's very very similar to the hardware in the actual Airport cards. I think anything else that uses the same (Broadcom BCM[9]4306) chipset will "just work" too, which would also include Belkin's F5D7010 and the revision 1 of Linksys' WMP54G (as it has the right chipset)

    If you fail to find a compatible wireless card, then just get one of those games console wireless adaptors and plug it into your GigE port. That'll work too.
    [edit]Sad Professor has said this already, sorry[/edit]

    Hope this helps,
    Gadget.


  • #35
    ZENER
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,167 ✭✭✭ZENER


    Ditto with Realtek NICs, Firewire and USB PCI cards. I also have a Broadcom based Belkin F5D7000 WNIC that works too.

    ZEN


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