Maybe time to move to X?
Martin Bullen
On Feb 19, 2004, at 4:26 PM, Karl-Heinz Herrmann wrote:
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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