Hi,

I'm trying to gather information on getting a B&W G3 airborne (802.11b/g
network).

From:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106858&sessionID=anonymous|42657672&kbhost=kbase.info.apple.com%3a80%2f

I saw that at least OS9 can run an orinoco PCI card, can anybody confirm
that? 

The general problem to be solved is:


A phone line comes in at a rather unconvenient place for regular
cabling so I hab the idea of using WLAN (distance is not very much from
my PC WLan experience it should not be a problem).

As the airport base station is rather costly I would go for a 802.11b
(or even g) NAT WLan router as base station with ADSL and a fallback to
modem or ISDN (German specific(?) phone line modem. As it's not my
Mac but a friends and I'm more at home in Linix/PC I'm not quite sure
about the B&W G3 side. It runs OS9.2.2 and will probably do so for some
more time. 

Would simply plugging an airport (extreme) PCI card work ? Where would I
get the drivers? apple.com? boxed?

How about non-apple cards? Especially: Could I test (and demonstrate)
the whole thing by taking my Allnet prism2 based PC PCI card (same as
orinoco cards as far as I know) into the G3 and bring my Wlan router as
base AP? Again the "where get driver" question as I'm sure I've no mac
drivers in my box.

And last: If an upgrade to OSX *does* happen, what then? On xlr8yourmac
I found one reference describing how to get a non-apple broadcom(?) card
brand linksys to work in OSX. That wouldn't work with an orinoco card,
right? 



Thanks for any insights!


K.-H.

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