yeh, though that's a different model card than the one on ebay - the
seller says it's mac compatible but then spins a whole lot of
B***S*** about the "original" apple airport cards for costing $220
new from apple and $120 second hand on ebay -
fact is that's old obsolete information from way back when for the
old PCMCIA 11b cards - the newer airport extreme proprietary cards
are under $80 new and seen them go as low as $40 on ebay and I've
helped find and purchase for friends and co-workers the old style
for as little as $25 off ebay
so as you can imagine he's not overly endearing himself to me.
Hi Mark,
found this interesting article about PCI wireless cards for older
macs - more specifically G3 and G4 towers - but the info should hold
true for your G5 as well
http://homepage.mac.com/techedgeezine/2005_0217-54g-inyourmac1.htm
It names a number of cards that work natively with apple's airport
software (no drivers required) although it seems that most of the
newer revisions of these cards have since lost that ability
(upgraded chipsets etc no longer compatible with apples airport
software).
It does mention Buffalo cards so might be of interest.
Hope it's somewhat helpful anyway!
Regards,
Dustin
Dustin Marcus
Service and Support
Artref Pty Ltd
614 Hay Street
Jolimont WA 6014
(08) 93875088 (ph)
(08) 93875722 (fax)
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On 24/04/2007, at 2:56 PM, Mark Secker wrote:
my s/h G5 doesn't have AIrport Extreme card - Apple store lists
them as being $79 - I already have the aerial you need for it to
work with the G5 towers (but strangely not an aerial for the built
in bluetooth unit (yeh weird I know, you figure.that one .. but
guess that's the way Daniel received it) )
looking at other alternatives .... particularly 11.g compatible ones.
anybody used the Buffalo technologies PCI card based airstation card?
which come to about $70 as sold new on eBay i.e.:
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