on 13/06/04 18:38, Clark Martin at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > At 2:09 PM -0700 6/13/04, Ken wrote: >> My Reply follows quote. On 13/06/2004 13:31 [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: >> >>> I called MacMall yesterday wondering if >>> I they could recommend a wi-fi Cardbus card >>> for my Wall Street since I don't want to depend >>> on a 3rd party card's software to get it to >>> work when I'm out of town. >>> >>> They told me I'd need OS X. True? >> ------- >> Why, of course! Why should you doubt the word of a retailer?! >> >> Except that I shopped ebay, and found a "new, in box" Lucent >> (Orinoco) Gold card,for $40.49, shipped, stuck in my Wallstreet >> (OS 9.2) opened the already installed AirPort software, and it >> connected immediately to my Graphite base station. > > Except that Orinoco Gold is probably not CardBus. If you want to use > native software (ie Airport s/w) under OS X it does need to be an > 802.11g card which will likely be CardBus. I don't know if the OS 9 > Airport software will work with an 802.11b card. > > So the question is whether or not you really need a CardBus card.
There is no need for a cardbus card. I had an ORiNICO Silver card in a Wallstreet and the card worked right off the box with the AirPort software in OS 9. -Laurent. -- ============================================================================ Laurent Daudelin AIM/iChat: LaurentDaudelin <http://nemesys.dyndns.org> Logiciels Nemesys Software mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] bytesexual /bi:t`sek'shu-*l/ adj.: [rare] Said of hardware, denotes willingness to compute or pass data in either big-endian or little-endian format (depending, presumably, on a mode bit somewhere). See also NUXI problem. -- G-Books is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-Books list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
