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monty77
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 Posted: Wed Mar 02, 2005 4:08 am Post subject: USB WiFi adapters that work with Mac Mini |
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Anyone? I have a couple of netgear USB adapters (WG121) but dont see any Mac drivers on the Netgear website.
Anyone know which (if any) USB adapters are supported ? Or do I have to go the airport route?
Thanks!
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idave
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I'm not sure if they'll work. I bet you'll have to end up going the Airport route. Are there any Linux drivers out there for them?
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monty77
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| Posted: Wed Mar 02, 2005 11:04 am Post subject: |
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| idave wrote: | | I'm not sure if they'll work. I bet you'll have to end up going the Airport route. Are there any Linux drivers out there for them? |
As I feared.
Think I'll just run it wired for a while - I'm buying one just to test out OSX anyway really - if I get hooked I'll most prob go for an iMac.
Cheers for the response though!
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The D-Link ones will work fine with the mini.
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monty77
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| Posted: Fri Mar 04, 2005 4:11 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks for the D-link hints guys .. it's working fine on the PBG4 I'm using right now so I'm assuming it will also on the Mini. Cheap too!
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monty77
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Sorry to say that the DLink would appear not to be suitable. It works ok but was hanging OSX while surfing and using RDP to my windows box - once back onto a wired connection everything is AOK.
Dammit, airport it is I guess 
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jayster68
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not really any USB wifi that works, I tried a few with no luck. The Dlink worked but hung the system when it went to sleep.
I was left with no solution as I had to have wifi but no apple store had the units in stock. So I just bought the Dlink wireless bridge. No drivers needed and the mini thinks its working over ethernet.
Works great and the only one that support WPA
http://www.dlink.com/products/?sec=1&pid=241 |
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