Working Tiger drivers for generic x.11n USB dongles

[swamprock]

After downloading, installing, uninstalling because they didn't work, finding different drivers, repeating ad nauseum....

I finally found working Tiger drivers for those $2 generic x.11n USB dongles that are all over eBay, Aliexpress, etc. The various Leopard drivers that I've found have all worked, but I've had nothing but issues with the Tiger ones supplied, until now. I've even got it working on an iBook G3.

They were right here all of the time:

 

[sparty411]

What chipset do these dongles use?

 

[swamprock]

What chipset do these dongles use?

Realtek RTL8188

 

[Dronecatcher]

I do believe I've shared these before a few times - they're still on the suppliers website:

https://www.edimax.com/edimax/downl...ess_adapters/wireless_adapters_n150/ew-7811un

I have a couple of the Neotechs brand ones shown in the video.

 

[swamprock]

I do believe I've shared these before a few times - they're still on the suppliers website:

https://www.edimax.com/edimax/downl...ess_adapters/wireless_adapters_n150/ew-7811un

I have a couple of the Neotechs brand ones shown in the video.

I tried the drivers from Edimax's site with the dongles I have. Didn't work. I think the drivers listed at the link in the video are older versions.

These are the dongles I'm referring to, which work with the drivers linked in the OP- https://www.ebay.com/itm/New-Realte...ard-WiFi-Network-Adapter-RTL8188/113701069788

 

[Haemoglobin]

I have one of those, least it looks identical to the photo and is a mediatek. I installed the driver on my Pismo running 10.4, after reboot the darn app didn't open so i couldn't configure a thing.

 

[Dronecatcher]

I tried the drivers from Edimax's site with the dongles I have. Didn't work. I think the drivers listed at the link in the video are older versions.

Odd. The ones in the video are identical to the ones I linked to - just downloaded and size/timestamp match.

 

[Haemoglobin]

So do these dongles actually work?
https://www.ebay.com/itm/New-Realte...ard-WiFi-Network-Adapter-RTL8188/113701069788

I ask because I have one or one that has the exact same housing and looks the same, I can't say for certain if it is the same RTL8188 chipset. (Not sure how I can confirm that.)

I installed the drivers mentioned in the youtube video and not a sausage, no errors, just the wifi app never loaded up.

 

[swamprock]

Odd. The ones in the video are identical to the ones I linked to - just downloaded and size/timestamp match.

Quite odd. I read some comments on the video itself, and the guy who posted the video said he had to uninstall and reinstall them once to get them working. I installed those drivers on two different machines that had never had the drivers installed and they worked fine, and I also installed his linked Leopard drivers on my DC G5, which kernel panicked with the Edimax drivers and haven't had a panic since.

I'm totally confused. Maybe they're just quirky (read: badly coded) by nature...?
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I have one of those, least it looks identical to the photo and is a mediatek. I installed the driver on my Pismo running 10.4, after reboot the darn app didn't open so i couldn't configure a thing.

See above about the video poster's comment.
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So do these dongles actually work?
https://www.ebay.com/itm/New-Realte...ard-WiFi-Network-Adapter-RTL8188/113701069788

I ask because I have one or one that has the exact same housing and looks the same, I can't say for certain if it is the same RTL8188 chipset. (Not sure how I can confirm that.)

I installed the drivers mentioned in the youtube video and not a sausage, no errors, just the wifi app never loaded up.

See above. Yeah, they work just fine here.

 

[lazd]

I bought a couple of the mentioned WiFi adapters from eBay and can confirm they work under Tiger the mentioned EDIMAX drivers for open networks. I was able to connect and ping servers on the web after using the "Wireless Network Utility" to setup a Profile for my SSID that has no security.

However, the "Wireless Network Utility" UI profile configuration for "Wireless Network Security Properties" supports only the following for "Network Authentication":

• OPEN_SYSTEM
• SHARED_KEY -> WEP -> ASCII or Network Key
• WPA_PSK -> Network key
• WPA2_PSK -> Network key

That means it doesn't know how to generate network keys from SSID + WPA or WPA2 ASCII "passphrase" (your WiFi "password"), so you'll need a pre-shared key. These are simple enough to generate for WPA, but I can't find any way to generate these keys for WPA2, which is what modern routers use.

Basically, this WiFi adapter + these drivers doesn't work how you'd expect: you can't connect to a WPA/WPA2 network using the WiFi password, you'll have to generate a pre-shared key on another computer and use that to authenticate. I didn't get that working as I couldn't find a way to generate the pre-shared key for WPA2.

With that, it seems this WiFi adapter doesn't work for my use case, which is to connect to modern WiFi networks as the in-built Airport card I have installed doesn't support WPA/WPA2.