Article:  |
The Disaster-Free Upgrade to Mac OS X | |
| Subject: | Airport-enabled - I wish | |
| Date: | 2001-05-01 20:50:13 | |
| From: | dogzilla | |
| Well, I wish I had a Powerbook with an airport slot. I have a Wallstreet with a wavelan card, which I find indispensable under OS9. And this machine still has quite a lot of legs, so I can't really justify an upgrade (either to myself *or* my spouse). I just wish the Wavelan people would release the drivers already. I've heard that the holdup was Apple's incomplete IOKit, and have also heard a bit about possible open source drivers, but nothing concrete yet. Anyone care to comment? Lack of Wavelan support is the only thing holding me back from OSX full-time. | ||
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Airport-enabled - I wish
2001-05-01 22:08:38 Derrick Story |
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Indeed you have a terrific PowerBook, and there aren't any drivers that I know of for the WaveLan card. If someone knows of a workaround, please chime in. In the meantime, I agree, I'd wait to upgrade too.
It uses Apple's Airports drivers. The airport software actually sees it as an airport card. The only reason it doesn't work with OS X yet is because OS X has no PCMCIA card support yet. It should work fine though as soon as PC card support is added. I have a Lombard 400 320mb RAM