[geeks] Are there any USB wifi adapters that use the Apple Airport driver?

[John Francini]

Correct.

You'd need to get the real thing in order to control it with the  
AirPort menu item or control panel.

If it's for an older Mac that doesn't support Airport Extreme, the  
reason they're expensive is that Apple's discontinued making them  
large-scale. They still make them for the repair market.  Any that  
are left out there are either unsold existing stock, re-purposed  
repair parts stock, or pulls.

John




On 9 Oct 2006, at 15:40, Micah R Ledbetter wrote:

> I can't seem to find a definitive answer on the web, but it seems
> like the answer is no. If you want USB wifi on your Mac (because, for
> example, an Airport card is stupid expensive), you must use a
> different driver.
>
> Doesn't this also mean that I can't use the Airport menu item to
> control it? I'd like to be able to use the menu item, since I'm doing
> this for my sister.... I'd like it to "just work".
>
> As an aside, if there's a list of generic PC USB dongles that have
> drivers for OS X, I'd appreciate that also. A lot of the mac-
> compatible cards I find are a lot more expensive than one not
> marketed as Mac compatible.
>
> Note: I can't use wirelessdriver.sf.net, because it only works for
> PCMCIA cards, and I need this for an iBook, which doesn't have a
> PCMCIA slot.
>
>   - Micah
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