Some time ago, someone mentioned in this list the OrangeWare 802.11a
compatible device driver for the Macintosh.
http://www1.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/ietf/current/msg40249.html
Unfortunately it appears that their web page is optimistic and that
in reality they do not support all of the cards that they list in
their web site. Furthermore, their e-mail support leaves a lot for
improvement; I haven't tried phone support due to the transatlantic
costs and time zone differences.
I was unfortunate enough to buy a D-Link Air Premier DWL-AG660, and
that one definitely doesn't work. If I plug the card to the laptop,
the driver (OMI_80211g.kext) does not load. Looking up the card ID
with System Profiler gives Vendor ID: 5772, Device ID: 27, which
translates to IOPCIMatch of 0x001b168c. Adding this to the driver's
Info.plist file makes the driver load on card insert, as it should,
but still not the driver to recognise the card. The Mac OS X itself
does recognise card; it is listed as Atheros Communications Inc
AR5001-0000-0000, and System Profiler shows info on it.
I have now sent four e-mails to their support, the first one last
Wednesday. I have got reply to one, and that was very unhelpful,
basically asking if I had installed the driver as root or not, while
I clearly indicated my findings above already in the first mail.
Hence, based on this experience so far, I would strongly advice
making sure that the card that you plan to buy actually does work
with the driver before buying a card. From the drivers Info.plist,
cards with the following parameters appear to work:
3COM Wireless: 0xa7270013 0x102610b7
DLink AirPlus XtremeG (Atheros 5212a): 0x1025168c 0x2027168c
Linksys A+G (Atheros): 0x00181737
ZAtheros: 0x0013168c
The last one is what I suppose to match with DWL-AG660, but it
doesn't, as you can see. Make sure that the IOPCIMatch code of your
card, as generated from the Vendor ID and Device ID, matches one of
the above. Otherwise you are almost sure to be left out of luck.
--Pekka Nikander
PS. If someone wants to buy an DWL-AG660 at Dallas (should work fine
with Windows), please let me know.
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