Wireless Question

duosonic · Aug 8th, 2005, 04:06 PM

I have a TiPB 667 with an AirPort card; running OS X 10.3.5. I have borrowed a D-Link DWL-G630 PCMCIA card to get wireless g - do I have to remove the internal Airport Card in order for the D-Link PCM card to come into use? Also, of course D-Link claims support only for various versions of Win - anyone used this card in a mac? Hints? Tips? Pointers? Thanks

Aug 9th, 2005, 01:30 PM

You shouldn't have to remove the internal airport. That said not sure if the airport drivers work with that card or not ... guess you'll have to try and let us all know

if it doesn't you can try googling, there are a couple of other wireless drivers for OSX, both free and commercial. I know that Tiger removed support for quite a few non-apple cards. I have an Orinoco Silver that used to work with the built in drivers that no longer does :/

duosonic · Aug 10th, 2005, 01:29 AM

Thanks for your suggestions - I googled & came up with possibly one driver but I don't want to put $ into it at this time (it's just borrowed for a few days). Other than that as a possible, it is one of the few cards that is virtually incompatible with macs. Oh well …

Ants · Aug 10th, 2005, 02:03 AM

Perhaps this Mac OS Wireless Adapter Compatibility List can help. It did not list the DLink card your using but provides alternatives.

FWIW - also had good luck using a free driver from WirelessDriver with OSX 10.3.x and an Orinocco card a while back with the same TiBook you have. Funny thing is that the driver is for OSX 10.2...