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Old 01-23-2009, 05:57 PM
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WLAN USB Sticks

Hi guys, can anyone recommend me some WLAN USB sticks which are working on OSx86? A friend needs one... What is the better choice for stability? 54 Mbit or 108 Mbit?

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Old 01-23-2009, 07:05 PM
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Old 01-23-2009, 09:09 PM
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iPC has an RT2500 USB driver that works OOTB with the RT2500 based Linksys USB adapters. Cheap, too.

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Old 01-27-2009, 12:28 AM
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Can those RT2500 based Linksys USB's connect to secured wifi on mac? I've never been able to get my current wifi solution to connect to a secured wireless network on my hackintosh. And as one of my neighbors is stealing my wifi so I really need one! loti.

naquaada: 802.11G 54Mbit is more prevalent then 802.11G 108Mbit so I would think it is more secure. But do 802.11N stuff work on a hack I wonder?

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Old 01-27-2009, 02:53 AM
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Can those RT2500 based Linksys USB's connect to secured wifi on mac? I've never been able to get my current wifi solution to connect to a secured wireless network on my hackintosh. And as one of my neighbors is stealing my wifi so I really need one! loti.

naquaada: 802.11G 54Mbit is more prevalent then 802.11G 108Mbit so I would think it is more secure. But do 802.11N stuff work on a hack I wonder?
Not sure, but the package has the Ralink Wireless Utility included, so give it a shot through that.

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Old 02-08-2009, 11:18 PM
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Hi guys,

Not to start new thread i'll just add what i might need to naquaada's post. Very similar stuff.

I also might need a Wifi USB stick so if you know exact model number please let me know so i can look for one. What i would also like to do is to replace mini-pci-e wifi in the same laptop. Its a pretty nice laptop Intel Core2Duo 2,8Ghz (penryn), 4GB 1066 ddr2, Sata 250 GB hdd, Lan marvell/yukon. The bad thing s wireless 5100AGN, intel, which i don't think is ever going to work. Also gfx is ati hd 3450, no support for it either. There are some rumors about support for ati 34xx serie so i'll just wait for it. Vanilla working great, already tried 10.5.6. As i am in no rush, waiting (and hoping) for gfx support maybe i could start looking for mini PCIe wifi, with nice support, to replace the Intel one. I dont like to have usb sticking out all the time, that's my main reason.

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Old 02-14-2009, 09:32 AM
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Hello,

i use a Dlink DWL-G122 Revision C.
Drivers can be found on the official Dlink HP , 10.4.x Drivers working perfect for 10.5.6.

The only problem.... from time to time during startup u must disconnect the stick and plugin again to work.
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Old 02-14-2009, 12:00 PM
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Sitecom USB wireless sticks work perfectly with OSX and using the latest Ralink drivers. I am using the WL608, which uses the RT2870 chipset, and I did had to have to add it to the Info.plist, but this thing is so new it is not even on the Sitecom website yet. You can get it at Mediamarkt and it is very small and costs something like 19 euro.

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Old 02-14-2009, 12:26 PM
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I didn't need it myself, it was for a friend. We got one with an RTL8187B chip.

2 Opteron systems: OSx86 10.5.8, Andy's 9.8.0 kernel, Asus A8N-SLI Premium, Opteron 185 o'clocked @ 2 x 2,95 GHz (2nd system 2.6 GHz), ATI Radeon HD2600XT 256MB Dual-Monitor 2x HP L2035, 4 GB RAM, Griffin FireWave as main audio device, Marvell + nForce LAN, Asus U3S6 USB3/SATA6 card, 5,5 TB harddisk, Firewire 800 card, Apple Remote + eHome IR receiver, 2x Wacom serial graphics tablet, Canon Pixma iP4700, Logitech Internet Navigator wireless keyboard/mouse combination.

My Audio stuff: M-Audio Transit USB (default audio), M-Audio ProFire 610, M-Audio ProFire Lightbridge (34 channels) using Creamware A16 ADAT converter MIDI: M-Audio Midiman 4x MIDI interfaceBehringer Audio Mixers: Xenyx 1002, Xenyx 1002FX, Xenyx 1202FX, Eurorack UB1002FX, Eurorack MX1804FX, Eurorack MX262A • FX devices: Lexicon MPX100 DSP, Behringer DSP-1000 Virtualizer, Behringer MiniFEX 800 DSP, Behringer Multicom Pro MDX4400 compressor RETRO: MSSIAH midi/sequencer/synthesizer cardridge for the C64 (Dual-SID), Steinberg M.S.I. MIDI Interface for C64
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Old 02-14-2009, 01:11 PM
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