At the end of a 12 month road, wireless broadband is now available in this West Cork village a new mast, trees swept aside and it all grinds to a halt.
The missing link is a 10.2.8 compatible wireless G network adapter or dongle. I run an iBook (model A1007) and iMac (model M6498) neither of which take the new Airport cards. I therefore need an external solution.
The broadband provider supplies a Belkin (F5D7050UK) wireless G network adapter. While Belkin do, in fact, have a 10.3-compatible driver available to download from their site [http://www.belkin.com/support/downlo...2&lang=1&mode=
- see "F5D7050_v2- OS X.3 Drivers"], my provider is not comfortable installing Belkins as they will NOT be supported by the manufacturer. They therefore want me to get wireless antennae from someone who can support them should there be a problem and preferably a model which supports the Mac OS you have (or that you upgrade to). We did once install a USB device onto a customers MAC with a driver that claimed to make it compatible it was a nightmare and took hours to achieve we dont want to go down that road again.
Does anyone know of an adapter/dongle which really does work with 10.2.8? I am reluctant to upgrade both machines to 10.3 if I dont have to, as it means closing my office for 2 days and Apple support locally is far from confidence-inspiring.
Or should I cut my losses are go for a wired solution a retrograde step if ever I heard one!
The missing link is a 10.2.8 compatible wireless G network adapter or dongle. I run an iBook (model A1007) and iMac (model M6498) neither of which take the new Airport cards. I therefore need an external solution.
The broadband provider supplies a Belkin (F5D7050UK) wireless G network adapter. While Belkin do, in fact, have a 10.3-compatible driver available to download from their site [http://www.belkin.com/support/downlo...2&lang=1&mode=
- see "F5D7050_v2- OS X.3 Drivers"], my provider is not comfortable installing Belkins as they will NOT be supported by the manufacturer. They therefore want me to get wireless antennae from someone who can support them should there be a problem and preferably a model which supports the Mac OS you have (or that you upgrade to). We did once install a USB device onto a customers MAC with a driver that claimed to make it compatible it was a nightmare and took hours to achieve we dont want to go down that road again.
Does anyone know of an adapter/dongle which really does work with 10.2.8? I am reluctant to upgrade both machines to 10.3 if I dont have to, as it means closing my office for 2 days and Apple support locally is far from confidence-inspiring.
Or should I cut my losses are go for a wired solution a retrograde step if ever I heard one!