[Ti] Good 802.11G cards for the TiBook?

[John Griffin]

If you are looking for an Altheros based card that has the best  
reception plus Mac compatibility I would suggest the 3Com 3CRPAG175.  
It has an antenna that retracts (which is also a switch that turns  
the card on when extended and off when pushed in). If you get this  
card you can then go to the 3Com web site and download Mac drivers  
that install a panel in the System Preferences which controls the  
card and supplies information and diagnostics. If you use a different  
Atheros PCMCIA card, you have to download (and pay for) Orangeware’s  
drivers to make it Mac compatible. I tend to use this card in the  
setting you mention because of its compact size and the excellent  
antenna system.

You can also use a Broadcom based card (same as Airport) and forget  
about 3rd party drivers. One thing to keep in mind is that amost all  
Wireless routers in use these days use the Altheros chipset, so you  
can use the maximum setting on the card and get better speeds then  
you can with Airport.

jg

On 4-Oct-05, at 10:31 PM, Josh Zhixel wrote:

> Does anyone have any recommendations for a decent 802.11g card  
> that'll 'just work' on OS X 10.4? I did some googling and came  
> across the Asante AL5403-XG, but nobody seems to be selling them  
> anymore.