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Drivers for Netgear WG311T PCI adapter
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What version of the card is it? These cards had a couple of chips across the same series.
There are no OS X drivers for the chipset even. You may be able to build a driver using the AirPort Atheros 5424 kext by adding the device to the list.
There is always a risk when modifying kext files. I have done it numerous times for Hackintoshes or adding unsupported hardware to my Mac.
What exactly do you mean? Do you mean you could not find the device identifier in it? I would try rolling back the IOPCIFamily.kext to the one from 10.4.5 first as that seemed to have more Atheros networking support.
I think the Orangeware driver only works on 10.4. The reasoning would be due to the IOPCIFamily.kext that supported that chipset was available only in Tiger.
Kext files are protected from being written to when in System/Library/Extensions. Most users create two copies when making edits. One for backup purposes that you can put on a flash drive or somewhere safe and one on the Desktop to edit. In the event that this really screws your install up, boot into Tiger and restore the original. Remember that you must properly re-add the kext into the folder and not just drag it in.
In the end it seems only WEP is recognized under Tiger, I do appreciate the help but probably will end up sticking with sharing the connection from my macbook pro instead.