You didn't say what OS, but here goes.
For Mac OS 9, you're pretty much limited to 16-bit PCMCIA wireless cards (802.11b). The Lucent/Orinoco WaveLAN cards should work out of the box with the Airport software. Cicso also has a MacOS 9 driver for their Aironet 340 and 350 cards. (I actually have one of those in my PDQ.) There is a 3rd party commercial driver which will support some other cards (mostly Prism2-based like the older Linksys ones). I think Belkin also had a USB adapter with Mac OS 9 drivers, but then you'd also have to use a USB card. With Mac OS X, the choices get different. The Cisco has a X driver which works at least through Panther. The Lucent cards, though, require either a commercial driver or an outdated open source one. The good news, though, is that you can go 802.11g. If you can find a card with a Brodcomm chipset, then it should be supported out of the box by the Airport Extreme drivers. Conversely, Ralink has a nice set of drivers for cards based on their chipsets. John From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Sheryl Birkhead Sent: Friday, April 09, 2010 10:09 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Wireless card for Wallstreet/PDQ? IR functionality for printing? I'll try to keep this short- 1) I am looking at a PDQ on ebay--what options do I have togo wireless--i.e. what (any?) card?? I googled and found confliciting info even on what cards are compatible. 2) The old laser printer says it has IR capability(never used it used an Asante box)- both HP and Apple say I can forget it--BUT I see in the Wallstreet manual (I am presumeing that if I get the PDQ the same thing applies)that it has IR capability- anyone know anything about it? The printer is an HP 2100M laserjet- thanks Sheryl -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Books, a group for those using G3 iBooks and PowerBooks (we run a separate list for G4 'Books). The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To leave this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g-books Support for older Macs: http://lowendmac.com/services/ To unsubscribe, reply using "remove me" as the subject.
