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Hi there,
I'm in the process of putting together a new system to use with Lion (UniBeast). I've just bought my mother board (Gigabyte GA-P67A-UD3P-B3) which has no built in WiFi.
Anyway I have no access to Ethernet as this machine is going to be used in my room (in the basement), so I need a WiFi solution.
I'm tempted to do this: http://x86wifi.blogspot.com/2010/04/how-to-build-your-own-real-airport-card.html as I already have the mini PCI adapter card with antennas, so all I need is an airport card. However after searching for a bit on the bay, all I can seem to dig up are used cards, e.g: http://bit.ly/z9XMhp and http://bit.ly/zyYd6X. Would it be a good idea to pursue this? I noticed that there are more than one available on the eBay pages, so that is probably a good sign.
The alternative as far as I can tell, is to just buy a generic USB WiFi dongle of amazon etc. which claims to be compatible with OS X, but I don't know how much luck I'd have that option. I was thinking something like this... http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B001KOTDDU/?tag=tonymacx86-21
Any opinions or advice would be greatly appreciated!
Dan
I'm in the process of putting together a new system to use with Lion (UniBeast). I've just bought my mother board (Gigabyte GA-P67A-UD3P-B3) which has no built in WiFi.
Anyway I have no access to Ethernet as this machine is going to be used in my room (in the basement), so I need a WiFi solution.
I'm tempted to do this: http://x86wifi.blogspot.com/2010/04/how-to-build-your-own-real-airport-card.html as I already have the mini PCI adapter card with antennas, so all I need is an airport card. However after searching for a bit on the bay, all I can seem to dig up are used cards, e.g: http://bit.ly/z9XMhp and http://bit.ly/zyYd6X. Would it be a good idea to pursue this? I noticed that there are more than one available on the eBay pages, so that is probably a good sign.
The alternative as far as I can tell, is to just buy a generic USB WiFi dongle of amazon etc. which claims to be compatible with OS X, but I don't know how much luck I'd have that option. I was thinking something like this... http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B001KOTDDU/?tag=tonymacx86-21
Any opinions or advice would be greatly appreciated!
Dan