Re: Q: Airport compatible PCMCIA-WLAN card with WPA2+AES support?

2012-12-26 Thread Kris Tilford
On Dec 25, 2012, at 6:26 AM, Mac User #330250 wrote: Really, the PCMCIA slot seems to be the only way to add WiFi. I'm confused, I thought the Cube came with an original Airport 802.11b card slot which doesn't really work as a standard PCMCIA slot? If it does work as a standard PCMCIA slot

Re: Q: Airport compatible PCMCIA-WLAN card with WPA2+AES support?

2012-12-25 Thread peterhaas
>> The card with a stick-on label "VER.2000" is definitely OS X-compatible. >> >> I believe there may be one other F5D7010 version which is OS >> X-compatible. >> >> All the others are not. > > Do you know if it supports WPA2 and AES/PSK? My recollection is it was too early for the WPA2 specifica

Re: Q: Airport compatible PCMCIA-WLAN card with WPA2+AES support?

2012-12-25 Thread Mac User #330250
-- Original message -- Subject: Re: Q: Airport compatible PCMCIA-WLAN card with WPA2+AES support? Date:Tuesday, 25. December 2012 From:peterh...@cruzio.com To: g3-5-list@googlegroups.com > > Really, the PCMCIA slot seems to be the only way to add WiFi. > &

Re: Q: Airport compatible PCMCIA-WLAN card with WPA2+AES support?

2012-12-25 Thread peterhaas
> USB1.1 doesn’t seem suitable, and I haven’t heard of a FW400 WiFi solution > yet. > > Really, the PCMCIA slot seems to be the only way to add WiFi. The card with a stick-on label "VER.2000" is definitely OS X-compatible. I believe there may be one other F5D7010 version which is OS X-compatible

Re: Q: Airport compatible PCMCIA-WLAN card with WPA2+AES support?

2012-12-25 Thread Mac User #330250
-- Original message -- Subject: Re: Q: Airport compatible PCMCIA-WLAN card with WPA2+AES support? Date:Tuesday, 25. December 2012 From:Kris Tilford To: g3-5-list@googlegroups.com > On Dec 25, 2012, at 2:05 AM, Mac User #330250 wrote: > > I need the WiFi ca

Re: Q: Airport compatible PCMCIA-WLAN card with WPA2+AES support?

2012-12-25 Thread Kris Tilford
On Dec 25, 2012, at 2:05 AM, Mac User #330250 wrote: I need the WiFi card for my Cube too, and the Cube only has two USB1.1 ports. This is not a good way to expand the Cube with WiFi. There are cheap PCI cards with Broadcom chipsets. For example, the NetGear WN311B works by manually adding

Re: Q: Airport compatible PCMCIA-WLAN card with WPA2+AES support?

2012-12-25 Thread Mac User #330250
-- Original message -- Subject: Re: Q: Airport compatible PCMCIA-WLAN card with WPA2+AES support? Date:Tuesday, 25. December 2012 From:peterh...@cruzio.com To: g3-5-list@googlegroups.com > Only a few of the several versions of the F5D7011 actually uses the > Br

Re: Q: Airport compatible PCMCIA-WLAN card with WPA2+AES support?

2012-12-24 Thread peterhaas
> A much better alternative, for my money, are the various USB 2.0 cards. > > The grand-daddy of them all is the ZyDas 1211b ... > > http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20070523154246381 > > ... which has drivers available for G-series and I-series versions of OS > X. It has an internal an

Re: Q: Airport compatible PCMCIA-WLAN card with WPA2+AES support?

2012-12-24 Thread peterhaas
> I’ve found this: > http://lowendmac.com/macdan/md09/mac-wifi-pc-card.htm > > The Belkin F5D7011 (801.11g) using the Broadcom chip looks like a suitable > candidate to me, but it is not clarified yet whether it will support WPA2. > > Also, I’ve heard that Belkin (like any other manufactorer) might

Q: Airport compatible PCMCIA-WLAN card with WPA2+AES support?

2012-12-24 Thread Mac User #330250
Hi! I’ve got this Cube and some other Power Macs G4… and I’m really happy with them. But I’d like to add Wireless LAN, especially to the Cube. Actually, I already have the original Airport. But my wireless router is configured to use WPA2 AES/PSK for security reasons. The original Airport 801.