[Ti] Wireless card

[John Griffin]

Geat story! The salesman¹s face must have been red!

Yes, even OrangeWare drivers for Atheros cards say you should install the
drivers before plugging in the card.

I haven¹t tried my 3Com card without drivers, but I suspect that the Mac
would not know what to do with it and could go into a kernel panic.

I assume your Verizon card is one that has the Broadcom chipset rather then
the Altheros? Is there any way you could find out? I would really like to
know if the Mac is capable of knowing what to do with an Altheros card
without 3rd party drivers.

jg

Robert Ameeti typed this message on 3/3/05 4:27 PM:

> As a follow on to Steve's experience, I've got a bit to add...
> 
> On Steve's suggestion, I went to my local Verizon store and bought the PC
> 5220. The salesman gave me the MTN number and the ESN number that I was
> supposed to enter after installing the software from the CD. The salesperson
> warned me to make sure that I installed the software before inserting the PC
> card or else I would probably break the card as he had had to replace several
> cards for customers that had not properly installed the software. Still being
> in the store, I inserted the CD into my Mac and I immediately recognized that
> it was only PC programs and some pdfs. I put the CD back into the box. Asking
> the salesperson about this, he replied that he would find out about Mac
> compatibility and he disappeared behind the partition.
> 
> Being the daredevil that I am, I brazenly inserted the PC card into my Mac.
> After a few seconds, up popped a dialog telling me that I had inserted a
> Verizon wireless card and that I must authorize the installation of software.
> My Mac then showed me the standard Admin password dialog where I typed in my
> password. About 10 seconds later, I noticed a Connect menu in the menu bar.
> What the heck. I selected Connect from the menu bar and in started flowing the
> 200 emails that were awaiting me. After about 10 minutes, the salesperson
> reappeared and said, Sorry, it wasn't going to be able to work on my Mac.