WiFi Cards

I thought that Broadcom4321 chip that is in the Dell1505 works native with OSX? if not, which cards do you recomend? I have narrowed down my choice to Dell1505n, Asus WL-270N, Gigabyte with Atheros AR5008 and i cant find anything with the chip you mentioned Broadcom4311, although its reported that the HP6910P has a wifi card with that chip...Do you have any links of wifi cards with BCM4311 that i can check?

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Hello Imkantus, thanks for the answer. I hail from Macedonia and those kinds of miniPCe wifi cards are rare here. I saw couple of them on ebay.de for around 20 euro, and on ebay.com around 10-15 USD, they`re quite cheap but i dont know if they ship to my country One question about Snow Leopard: Is it better to be n or just regular g will do (due to compatibility issues and transfers speeds are huge difference).

i think you did the Dell1505 is an n-draft card well i am off to buy one of those Broadcoms and hope for native airport All i have to do now is wait for another release from VoodooHDA (i have sound but it has some constant noise and screatches on playout, dunno if i have to patch my DSDT for audio which i dont know howto of course ) and have a fully working and functional Hackintosh. Thanks man for your help,

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Well i have to say thanks again mate for your attention Seriously, i will buy a card with Broadcom4311 chip after the previous post, is your card a specific manufacturer or? Also are you using it in your Asus laptop? The reason i am asking this is because i am unsure how it will work with the on/off keyboard shortcut or will it be always on

well thanks for everything Imkantus, just to solve my little problem with ordering the damn thing...

cheers man

What you need is a Mini PCIe Card - get one with BCM4311 Chipset they work without any drivers as an Airport card.
It doesn't need to be a Dell - there might be cheaper ones.

@flip360I thought that Broadcom4321 chip that is in the Dell1505 works native with OSX?

It's reported to do so - the BCM4306 & BCM4318 ones as well.
I just reocmmended the BCM4311, since I am using one myself and can confirm that it works great.

Do you have any links of wifi cards with BCM4311 that i can check?

Just go for it on ebay or google for it. I don't know from which country you are, but for example when I look it up on ebay.com I'll find cards like mine for just about 12USD or even less - and the used chip is nothing different to the one, the notebook manufactures you mentioned use for their products.

@flip360but i dont know if they ship to my country

Well you just need to look for items marked as "Ships to: Worldwide" and check the shipping costs.
But you should also check the situation on import taxes - as your country isn't part of the EU, (yet ?) - I don't know if that might gonna be a problem or not.

@flip360One question about Snow Leopard: Is it better to be n or just regular g will do (due to compatibility issues and transfers speeds are huge difference).

Well as far as I see - aside from the compatibility and transfer rate question - none of these cards even supports 8002.11n (I hope I understood your question correctly... )

Yeah, it looks like you have been missinformed it took me some research, but the Dell 1505 isn't using a Broadcom chip, like earlier Dell cards did - it's Intel Pro/W 4965

@flip360is your card a specific manufacturer or?

No. It just says "Manufactured in China". :

Also are you using it in your Asus laptop? The reason i am asking this is because i am unsure how it will work with the on/off keyboard shortcut or will it be always on

Sadly it doesn't longer work, after replacing, but working Wifi is woth that I guess. :