> Okay, a while ago I received great advice from some colleagues here > regarding wireless cards and a G5 with a PCI-E slot compatibility. > After doing some homework, I purchased one of those mini PCI_E > adapters and then a PCI-E wireless card to fit into it. > Installed the completed unit with out a hitch. I targeted a Broadcom > BCM94312MCG PCI-E card, knowing from history, experience AND said > recent reports/advice that Broadcom is Airport-compatible and > generally the way to go. > So..... > No Airport, no nothing.
Not all Broadcom cards are created equally. Some are quite simply made to a specification for a single end-user as an OEM product. The 4322/94322 is, in general, Airport a/b/g/n- and also AirDrop-compatible. I buy mine from various Hong Kong eBay dealers. So far, I have had only one 94322 which was no immediately seen by Snow Leopard or Lion as an Airport card. Mine are being run in Hackintoshes, either home-built using Gigabyte or ASRock motherboards, or in Shuttles. The Shuttle SH67 is particularly interesting in that it has an on-mobo mini PCI-e 1x slot and three knock-outs for antennas. This still leaves two available PCI-e slots for conventional cards. For a Broadcom WiFi card, only two antennas are possible, and one is often sufficient. I have two antennas in my Shuttle SH67, running Lion 10.7.2 and it is flawless with the exception that the ASMedia USB 3.0 chips won't work as there is no driver for it. Some of the most compatible WiFi cards, for use in Macks or in Hacks, are actually Dell-branded cards, DW 1390 (802.11b/g) and others. Look in eBay for cards stated to be WLAN and/ or DW xxxx, where xxxx is a sequence of numbers. I suppose DW is Dell-speak for "Dell Wireless". Broadcom codes their model numbers to include a suffix. Certain suffixes after, say 4322, could be 5xxx, where xxx are alpha characters. Those often are OEM and cannot be made to work in Macks or in Hacks. YMMV, of course. -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
