Re: best wifi solution for powermac Digital Audio

2015-04-09 Thread Kris Tilford
Cheap solution is buy a USB 2.0 PCI card and use the USB WIFI adapter you’ve 
been trying to use.

Alternative is buying a PCI WIFI adapter, but finding ones that are supported 
for PPC Macs under 10.4.11 may be difficult?

I’m guessing there are some 802.11n WIFI adapters that work for PPC under 
10.4.11 or 10.5.8., but it’s unlikely there are any current 802.11ac that work 
correctly.

 On Apr 8, 2015, at 12:48 PM, T payne blindsa...@gmail.com wrote:
 
 I've recently realized that the wifi adapter that I have been trying (on and 
 off, over the years) to use with my Digital Audio is incompatible because it 
 requires USB 2.0 ports. I've looked into the original airport card as a 
 solution, but I read that this was slow, though recognized natively. Is there 
 a better wifi card out there that will cooperate with a digital audio (with 
 OS 10.4.11) that would be faster and slightly more modern than airport? 
 thanks a lot.

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2015-04-09 Thread David Sutherland
It might be easier just to buy a PCI USB 2.0 card if you can get them
still. The one's I had success with in the G4 Quicksilver's had NEC
chipsets.  That is important as the OS had drivers built in for that.

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 I've recently realized that the wifi adapter that I have been trying (on
 and off, over the years) to use with my Digital Audio is incompatible
 because it requires USB 2.0 ports. I've looked into the original airport
 card as a solution, but I read that this was slow, though recognized
 natively. Is there a better wifi card out there that will cooperate with a
 digital audio (with OS 10.4.11) that would be faster and slightly more
 modern than airport? thanks a lot.
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2015-04-09 Thread Bruce Johnson

 On Apr 9, 2015, at 1:37 PM, David Sutherland turn...@gmail.com wrote:
 
 It might be easier just to buy a PCI USB 2.0 card if you can get them still. 
 The one's I had success with in the G4 Quicksilver's had NEC chipsets.  
 That is important as the OS had drivers built in for that.


Any PCI USB2 card that offers OHCI will work out of the box; since this was 
also the requirement for Windows 7, pretty much any USB2.0 card on the market 
will work.

USB1.1 cards were a different story.

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Re: best wifi solution for powermac Digital Audio

2015-04-09 Thread James Knight
I'm almost positive that my old d-link 802.11g pci card was supported on my 
DA g4. I'll check the model number later but finding one on ebay for peanuts 
should be easy.

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 On Apr 9, 2015, at 14:43, Kris Tilford ktilfo...@cox.net wrote:
 
 Cheap solution is buy a USB 2.0 PCI card and use the USB WIFI adapter you’ve 
 been trying to use.
 
 Alternative is buying a PCI WIFI adapter, but finding ones that are supported 
 for PPC Macs under 10.4.11 may be difficult?
 
 I’m guessing there are some 802.11n WIFI adapters that work for PPC under 
 10.4.11 or 10.5.8., but it’s unlikely there are any current 802.11ac that 
 work correctly.
 
 On Apr 8, 2015, at 12:48 PM, T payne blindsa...@gmail.com wrote:
 
 I've recently realized that the wifi adapter that I have been trying (on and 
 off, over the years) to use with my Digital Audio is incompatible because it 
 requires USB 2.0 ports. I've looked into the original airport card as a 
 solution, but I read that this was slow, though recognized natively. Is 
 there a better wifi card out there that will cooperate with a digital audio 
 (with OS 10.4.11) that would be faster and slightly more modern than 
 airport? thanks a lot.
 
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Re: best wifi solution for powermac Digital Audio

2015-04-09 Thread peterhaas

 Cheap solution is buy a USB 2.0 PCI card and use the USB WIFI adapter
 you’ve been trying to use.

Most so-called USB 2.0 WiFi dongles will indeed work on USB 1.1.

Check the support list, though, as not all of these will support PPC Macs
(but some will).


 Alternative is buying a PCI WIFI adapter, but finding ones that are
 supported for PPC Macs under 10.4.11 may be difficult?

Check the IO80211.kext contents for the list of supported devices under
10.4.11.

Now, 10.4.8 was the first Intel supported version, and I do believe that
WiFi was supported thereupon, PROVIDED the plug-in's plist had the proper
device coded added to it.

I am using legacy PCI WiFi adapters from Chinese sources with a Dell
Mini-PCI (NOT Mini-PCI-e, but those are available, too).

These are supported ... at least on Intel platforms ... as gen-u-wine
Airport cards, once the Broadcom plist has been updated.


As an aside for those with failed Ethernet ports ...

There is a Fast Ethernet (10/100) dongle which utilizes the Kawasaki Logic
9700 chip, and the mini CD which is supplied has drivers for PPC, Intel_32
(i386) and Intel_64 (x86_64) included.


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