Power Mac G5 Wireless help

[Naylor]

I understand that I cant fit a airport extreme card to my G5 as it was purchased after 2005. I have a airport extreme base station, is there anything else i can use to get my G5 wireless, can i get an airport express and connect the G5 to it with an Ethernet cable or are there PCI express wireless cards available.

Any advice appreciated.

 

[velocityg4]

There are probably some cards that you could use a generic or hacked driver like for the Atheros chips.

However the best solution I can think of for Wireless would be these wireless USB adapters besides finding the special Airport card for PCI-e G5's.
802.11N
802.11G

Or just use an ethernet cable.

 

[nplima]

hi

I got this card as recommended by someone on these forums who wanted one for a G4 powermac. It works on Windows, OS X and some Linuxes (Ubuntu 8 - automatically)

http://www.bluescale.co.uk/Shop/wir...e_card_for_mac_apple_airport_extreme_card.asp

 

[Naylor]

hi

I got this card as recommended by someone on these forums who wanted one for a G4 powermac. It works on Windows, OS X and some Linuxes (Ubuntu 8 - automatically)

http://www.bluescale.co.uk/Shop/wir...e_card_for_mac_apple_airport_extreme_card.asp

Was looking at that but its not pci express.
Its too far to use an ethernet cable, the dongles look good, I take it they are just plug and play.

 

[velocityg4]

Was looking at that but its not pci express.
Its too far to use an ethernet cable, the dongles look good, I take it they are just plug and play.

Those USB adapters I mentioned are probably just plug and play. Since OS X has several wireless drivers built in. Otherwise they will come with a driver. Macsales (Otherworldcomputing) is an old stalwart in selling products for Macs.