On Feb 20, 2011, at 7:18 AM, Andy wrote:
Hey guys. I'm one of the folks who recently had problems with the g5
1.8 tower being flakey as far as the monitor not turning on goes.
Turns out that yes, indeed, it was the pram battery that was dead.
So I picked up a router antenna from amazons site:(http://
www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0035H4164) and installed the driver. I
opened the network preferences window and clicked on the ethernet as
the network to use. Now it gives me the "flip down" window that
tells
me the the network applications have changed. I click on the "ok"
button, the window flips up, and then flips down again. Click ok,
and
it flips up, then down again. Is there some magic keystroke that I'm
missing to make this dialop box go away?
Go to System Preferences > Security and enable the option "Require
password to unlock each secure system preference".
Then it will go away forever!
I don't know if this will get rid of your dialog box or not, I suspect
not perhaps. I know that the box in Security called "Require password
to unlock each System Preferences pane" is not check by default in OS
X, and will be a hassle because now you'll be required to type your
~user admin password just to open any System Preferences pane such as
Network. Once open, I don't see how this will affect this dialog box,
they seem to be two completely separate things to me?
Further, your statement "I picked up a router antenna from amazons
site:<http:/.www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0035H4164> and installed the
driver" isn't accurate. Normally you'd use the built-in Airport
wireless connection, and this isn't an "antenna" for Airport, this is
a USB wireless adapter with antenna, a completely different thing than
an antenna alone. After installing the software and rebooting, when
you open System Preferences>Network it should automatically recognize
a "new port" and it will have a name, most likely something like "USB
Ethernet (en1)". The already existing port called "Ethernet" should be
your built-in wired ethernet port on the G5. When you install this new
port, you'll no longer be connecting via Apple's Airport. This USB
adapter you've bought is called an "ALFA Network AWUS036NEH" and uses
the Ralink RT3070 chipset. In order for a 3rd-party wireless adapter
to be recognized in OS X System Preferences as "Airport" the adapter
must use one of the two standard Apple wireless chipsets, either
Broadcom or Atheros.
This Ralink chipset can work in OS X, but it will be using a Ralink
application called "USBWirelessUtility" to setup and control the
wireless connection in addition to the new System Preferences>Network>
USB Ethernet (en1) port, rather than doing it through the Apple
Airport software.
While purchasing a USB wireless adapter is certainly one way to
upgrade your wireless connection from 802.11g to 802.11n, it's
probably better to stick with products that use either Broadcom or
Atheros chipsets so that they can use the normal Airport software to
connect with. I'm not familiar with the exact hardware in the iMac G5
Airport setup, but there's a chance you could have found an 802.11n
item that would be a drop-in replacement for your 802.11g card or
module. Next time, get a product with either Broadcom or Atheros
chipset and things will be much easier, the most you'd need to do is
add the correct VID & PID to the Apple 80211Family.kext's info.plist
file of the correct plugin for your chipset and it would work as
"Airport" rather than all this hassle with "new ports" and new
applications, and a complete setup procedure.
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