Wireless solution for 64-bit?

[auntyjamima]

I am just wondering if anyone has gotten wireless working yet in 64-bit and if so, how and with what? I can't decide which adapter to buy.

 

[MACSEB]

I would highly recommend the Asus WL-138g V2. I have it myself installed. It is recognized as Airport Card without the need for any additional tweak.

 

[manuel]

I orderd the Asus WL-138g V2 and hope it'll work. Tried a Linksys WMP54G before, but couldn't get Rev. 4.1 to work under Snow Leopard.

 

[gregord]

I tried using WUSB54GC v2 with my 64bit SL install. No luck. There seems to be very few usb style adapters that work.

My situation is my computer is on the third floor of my home and my cable modem and router are on the first. Not being able to run ethernet, I use wireless on my other 2 computers, but was not able to find a workable wireless adapter for my hackintosh build.

My solution only cost $50 and is more versatile. Bought the WRT54GL ROUTER (newegg.com FTW) and connected it via ethernet to my box. My main router is also a WRT54GL running tomato firmware. I put tomato on both and configured WDS.

If you have a different wireless router or cannot configure it to support WDS, buy a wrt54gl anyway and configure it in client mode (using tomato). You will have double NAT, but a little configuration with port forwards will overcome any issues.

 

[auntyjamima]

I would highly recommend the Asus WL-138g V2. I have it myself installed. It is recognized as Airport Card without the need for any additional tweak.

What driver did you install if any?

My solution only cost $50 and is more versatile. Bought the WRT54GL ROUTER (newegg.com FTW) and connected it via ethernet to my box. My main router is also a WRT54GL running tomato firmware. I put tomato on both and configured WDS.

I was considering doing something like this too. It would be easier but it would just not be as clean and also it would take up my ethernet port. Then again, it would pretty much work with any computer which is nice. Thanks for the suggestion.

 

[thelostswede]

I'm using a Gigabyte GN-WP30N-RH adapter, but I haven't tried it with 10.6 yet and it doesn't seem like Ralink provides 10.6 drivers for it.

Ralink has generic drivers on their site and they list which chipsets work with what OS version http://www.ralinktech.com/support.php?s=3

 

[MACSEB]

You don't need to install a single driver. It's working oob. I haven't had any issues with the card.

Here is a link to this card: http://cgi.ebay.com/NEW-Asus-PCI-Wirele ... 146wt_1167

 

[thelostswede]

Seems like my Gigabyte card isn't working, due to lack of drivers. Hopefully Ralink will get around to doing drivers for this chipset as well and not just their USB solutions.

 

[davide]

DLink DWA 547 doesn't work yet: with AtherosFix.kext it shows up, but causes a kernel panic :/

 

[thelostswede]

You tried these drivers? http://www.kexts.com/view/158-dlink_dwa ... less_.html