since most people need either a card recomendation or they need to know where to find it!
the card we are in search of is bcm4321
on ebay.com you should not have to pay more then $25 and that includes shipping to everywhere in the world.
for example a good deal is found here
http://is.gd/zJmL
just do a search for "broadcom 802.11n" especially if that listing expires and you are still reading the post.
it is for mini pci express. For people debating whether it is worth it, i bought my wireless N card for 25 and sold my non mac compatible wireless n for 30 local!
Full Version: The Best Wifi Card For OSX
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I'd say the best Wifi card fo OSX would be an aiport card, amirite?
QUOTE (texta @ May 14 2009, 07:27 AM) 
I'd say the best Wifi card fo OSX would be an aiport card, amirite?
That's why he made the post texta
bcm4321 is the chipset used in the airport extreme of current gen (9400) White and Aluminium Macbooks.
It's definitely in mine.
I would just like to add couple of notes here. When buying a compatible "airport" card.
Do make sure that your card would work with your laptop. At times , it wouldn't simply work (for instance on HP and IBM laptops. These OEMs only do allow certain WiFi card to work with the laptop). Fortunately there are ways of bypassing this (this includes by using ath_tool to rebrand an antheros card as a broadcom card fooling the BIOS thinking thats its a OEM supplied card or by simply editing the BIOS to allow it to work with other cards)
If that is not an option for you , do consider yourself getting a Ralink (RT25/28) based WiFi (USB) Cards. Although its not an "airport" compatible card. These tiny cards can do packet injection and it works flawlessly across 3 OSes (Windows , OSX and Linux)
Do make sure that your card would work with your laptop. At times , it wouldn't simply work (for instance on HP and IBM laptops. These OEMs only do allow certain WiFi card to work with the laptop). Fortunately there are ways of bypassing this (this includes by using ath_tool to rebrand an antheros card as a broadcom card fooling the BIOS thinking thats its a OEM supplied card or by simply editing the BIOS to allow it to work with other cards)
If that is not an option for you , do consider yourself getting a Ralink (RT25/28) based WiFi (USB) Cards. Although its not an "airport" compatible card. These tiny cards can do packet injection and it works flawlessly across 3 OSes (Windows , OSX and Linux)
QUOTE (prasys @ May 17 2009, 11:14 AM)
I would just like to add couple of notes here. When buying a compatible "airport" card.
Do make sure that your card would work with your laptop. At times , it wouldn't simply work (for instance on HP and IBM laptops. These OEMs only do allow certain WiFi card to work with the laptop). Fortunately there are ways of bypassing this (this includes by using ath_tool to rebrand an antheros card as a broadcom card fooling the BIOS thinking thats its a OEM supplied card or by simply editing the BIOS to allow it to work with other cards)
If that is not an option for you , do consider yourself getting a Ralink (RT25/28) based WiFi (USB) Cards. Although its not an "airport" compatible card. These tiny cards can do packet injection and it works flawlessly across 3 OSes (Windows , OSX and Linux)
Do make sure that your card would work with your laptop. At times , it wouldn't simply work (for instance on HP and IBM laptops. These OEMs only do allow certain WiFi card to work with the laptop). Fortunately there are ways of bypassing this (this includes by using ath_tool to rebrand an antheros card as a broadcom card fooling the BIOS thinking thats its a OEM supplied card or by simply editing the BIOS to allow it to work with other cards)
If that is not an option for you , do consider yourself getting a Ralink (RT25/28) based WiFi (USB) Cards. Although its not an "airport" compatible card. These tiny cards can do packet injection and it works flawlessly across 3 OSes (Windows , OSX and Linux)
I have a RT2500 based USB adapter, and I was wondering if you found a way to get the kext to load properly on boot without using -f or having to hotplug the adapter?
This ia a decent wifi usb solution:
I have a few of these and at times they can be had for $14.99 w/free shipping.
It is NOT seen as an airport card but affordable and works flawlessly.
It does require the shitty RALINKesque GUI, which sucks.
Also, I have a complete copy of all ORANGEWARE drivers for OSX -- through March 2009
Their site isn't secure enough and no one here should have to pay for such things so here's a gift for anyone wanting them.
Just PM me if you want a copy of the archive...should the link die...
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I have a few of these and at times they can be had for $14.99 w/free shipping.
It is NOT seen as an airport card but affordable and works flawlessly.
It does require the shitty RALINKesque GUI, which sucks.
Also, I have a complete copy of all ORANGEWARE drivers for OSX -- through March 2009
Their site isn't secure enough and no one here should have to pay for such things so here's a gift for anyone wanting them.
Just PM me if you want a copy of the archive...should the link die...
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QUOTE (PolishOX @ May 19 2009, 04:34 AM)
Also, I have a complete copy of all ORANGEWARE drivers for OSX -- through March 2009
Their site isn't secure enough and no one here should have to pay for such things so here's a gift for anyone wanting them.
Just PM me if you want a copy of the archive...should the link die...
Their site isn't secure enough and no one here should have to pay for such things so here's a gift for anyone wanting them.
Just PM me if you want a copy of the archive...should the link die...
Thanx for this,
Do you still need an autorization code to get it out of trial mode?
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