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  The Disaster-Free Upgrade to Mac OS X
Subject:   WaveLAN/Orinocco card
Date:   2001-05-25 04:38:56
From:   simonforster
Having read the glowing report of OS X on an Airport enabled PowerBook I decided that I'd install OS X on my main work machine - also a PowerBook. Bought the new hard drive. Installed it. Installed OS X.


And it's useless to me.


My PowerBook is a bronze one with a WaveLAN/Orinocco card. All my network connections are wireless. I know now that PCMCIA WaveLAN cards are not supported under OS X's Airport install - so OS X is useless to me.


Every time I've tried to use OS X in a working environment, I get caught out by lack of drivers, incomplete support for something or just a lack of applications.


Soooo, frustrating.
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  • WaveLAN/Orinocco card
    2002-04-07 09:44:25  Th. Thaler [Reply | View]

    go to http://wirelessdriver.sourceforge.net/ and you should be happy.

    Greetings from Switzerland
    Thomas Thaler
  • Derrick Story photo WaveLAN/Orinocco card
    2001-05-25 07:01:28  Derrick Story | O'Reilly AuthorO'Reilly Blogger [Reply | View]

    I'm sorry for your frustration, but if it was my article that you read, then you missed a key element. The very first bullet point of Disaster-Free Part 1 is:

    "Here's what I recommend you need:

    An AirPort-enabled laptop. Computers without an AirPort slot don't count because you'll need drivers for third-party cards that are hard to find or that don't exist. "