FlyingToaster Posted January 16, 2012 Report Share Posted January 16, 2012 My Orinoco Gold (flashed silver) card doesn't work in 10.4 but it does work in OS 9. Are there any cheap cards that will work in 10.4? I don't want to buy the wrong one and it would be of help if someone already has this setup. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
stretch Posted January 16, 2012 Report Share Posted January 16, 2012 I have a Motorola GN825G wireless adapter that worked for a while. When it works, it works great. The bad thing is that after a while, the card powers itself off and from then on, the system refuses to see it. I've seen this behavior with the system booted 10.3 and 10.4. I finally bought a USB wireless dongle that works only with 10.4 and I seem to be pretty happy with it on this Lombard. I have a feeling my issue is a problem with the motherboard. This machine also refuses to recognize the battery. I've changed everything except the motherboard troubleshooting the battery issue. I refuse to buy a motherboard for a 13 year old machine hoping it will fix the problem. For what I use this machine for, I'll live with it's problems. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
J English Smith Posted January 16, 2012 Report Share Posted January 16, 2012 On my Lombard that is running 10.4, the Motorola WN825Gv2 card works well. These are available for around $8-10 on the 'bay. My memory is that Tiger recognizes it as an Airport card with no additional drivers. (With my other Lombard that is running 10.3, I can get the Orinoco card to work at the office, but not at home. Weird. It seems to be incompatible with the specific DSL modem, because I've changed all other parameters. Oh well.) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
BGoins12 Posted January 16, 2012 Report Share Posted January 16, 2012 I can't remember the model I had, but it was a Belkin card. It worked with the 10.4 Airport drivers because it had the same chipset in it as the airport cards do. EDIT - Here you go. http://www.ee.columbia.edu/~dpwe/resources/belkinairport.html Quote Link to post Share on other sites
MacJunky Posted January 16, 2012 Report Share Posted January 16, 2012 I used to use a Linksys WPC54G v3 with the built-in airport drivers. (but you might have to run software update a couple times to get the latest, I had to do that in both 10.3 and 10.4 on my PDQ) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
FlyingToaster Posted January 17, 2012 Author Report Share Posted January 17, 2012 The Beta 6 Tiger driver from http://sourceforge.net/projects/wirelessdriver/files/wirelessdriver/ works great so far! Thanks Strimkind for the help! Thanks to all for the card suggestions too! A good reference to future owners Quote Link to post Share on other sites
coius Posted January 17, 2012 Report Share Posted January 17, 2012 I know for a fact the Belkin F5D7011 ver.1000 does work. I use one in my Pismo for WPA/WPA2 access Quote Link to post Share on other sites
bibilit Posted January 23, 2012 Report Share Posted January 23, 2012 The Airport card is using a BCM 43 xx Chipset and all the following cards are known to work with the Airport soft : Asus WL-103B Asus WL-100G (classic) Belkin F5D7010 (first version only) Belkin F5D7011 Belkin F5D7011FR Bewan Wifi PCMCIA 54 Linksys WPC54G V1 Linksys WPC54GS Microsoft MN-720 Motorola WN825G PC Card Sagem WPCB-128G Sony Ericsson GC79 Tecom WL5021 Trendnet TEW-401PC Trendnet TEW-401PCPlus And the usb D-link DWL-g122 is working too Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Sludgedragon Posted July 19, 2012 Report Share Posted July 19, 2012 I thought a Lombard couldn't go past 10.3?? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
CC_333 Posted July 19, 2012 Report Share Posted July 19, 2012 Hi, The Lombard isn't supported per se, but 10.4 will run. One can bypass the checks in the installer by using X Post Facto or installing onto a supported machine's drive and transplanting that drive into the Lombard. c Quote Link to post Share on other sites
J English Smith Posted July 20, 2012 Report Share Posted July 20, 2012 And man, the Lombards are so much better under 10.4 for normal tasks. Max out the RAM and transplant a drive from a Pismo - you'll like it! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bunsen Posted July 20, 2012 Report Share Posted July 20, 2012 all the following cards are known to work with the Airport soft Hey bibilit. Thanks for that list - where did you find it? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
J English Smith Posted July 20, 2012 Report Share Posted July 20, 2012 Hey, at my new workplace I've been unable to hook to a WPA2 guest network with the original Airport card. I ordered an Airport Extreme PCMCIA card today. That should solve the problem, right? The guest network at my other office location is an open network with a simple access agreement and the original Airport card handles that just fine, of course. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
quinterro Posted February 25, 2013 Report Share Posted February 25, 2013 I have a TrendNet-based card in mine, but I haven't used it in a while. The chipset on it is a Realtek RTL8185. While 10.4 doesn't support it out of the box Realtek has drivers for it on its web site. Once those are installed it works quite well. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
gsteemso Posted June 24, 2013 Report Share Posted June 24, 2013 Hey, at my new workplace I've been unable to hook to a WPA2 guest network with the original Airport card. I ordered an Airport Extreme PCMCIA card today. That should solve the problem, right? Apple’s original AirPort card appears to be physically incapable of WPA/WPA2 encryption. The software doesn’t tell you, of course — it just silently fails to work. Where did you find an AirPort Extreme PC Card? Apple AE cards are a different, larger size, and I seem to recall that even the PC Card shaped original AirPort cards wouldn’t work in a normal PC Card bay, only in a dedicated slot. My 800MHz DVI TiBook seems to have a bad AirPort card slot — every card I’ve tried in it died within a month, so I’m very very interested in this thread. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
TheMacGuy Posted June 24, 2013 Report Share Posted June 24, 2013 Apple’s original AirPort card appears to be physically incapable of WPA/WPA2 encryption. The software doesn’t tell you, of course — it just silently fails to work. WPA will work on the original AirPort Card. You need to be running 10.3.9 Panther and the AirPort 3.3.1 software update (AirPort 3.3.1 is not a combo updater, 3.3 is. You need to upgrade to AirPort 3.3 then install 3.3.1). AirPort Card: When You Can Join a WPA Network Quote Link to post Share on other sites
J English Smith Posted June 26, 2013 Report Share Posted June 26, 2013 When you are in 10.4.11, the Motorola wn825g pc cards work fine with the wpa2 encryption. Am using those now for both home and work networks. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
quinterro Posted September 8, 2013 Report Share Posted September 8, 2013 I have a TrendNet-based card in mine, but I haven't used it in a while. The chipset on it is a Realtek RTL8185. While 10.4 doesn't support it out of the box Realtek has drivers for it on its web site. Once those are installed it works quite well. The model is TEW-421PC. Hardware revision is C1.0R. In the original post it worked on my home and work wireless networks. At my new job it connects but does not get an IP address. The work wireless is using WPA2-TKIP. Didn't know if it was related to the card or the OS. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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