Orinoco Wireless Card Drivers For Mac
Hey guys I've been looking for the Orinoco Wavelan driver software to use my gold PCMCIA card with my PowerBook 3400c. So far I haven't been lucky.
Orinoco Wireless Card Drivers For Macbook Pro
Getting your PowerBook online wirelessly can be tricky. I take a look at which cards work. This quest started when I first bought my. It was the last PowerBook not have an internal AirPort Card slot. The – the model after the Lombard – was the first PowerBook to have an AirPort slot.
(Apple introduced AirPort with.) Luckily, all PowerPC PowerBooks, except for the 12″ PowerBook G4, have a PC Card slot (some have two). The G3 range and upwards are compliant. This means you can use a PC Card in your PowerBook to get your device networking wirelessly. Depending on the card, will depend on how it works in your Mac.
Some cards are Broadcom based and work without any third party drivers, they are recognised as AirPort cards, and the Mac thinks no different. These are the easiest cards to use. Others cards come with specific Mac drivers such as the. Released a driver that enables a lot of “not officially supported” cards to work, such as the Sony PCWA-C300S. The has also released a Mac driver that enables a lot of Prism and Prism2 wireless cards, such as the WaveLAN/Orinoco, Cabletron, SkyLINE, and D-link PC Card cards for use with Mac OS X 10.2 and Darwin.
This article was first written in August 2008. It was last updated in September 2015. Compatible Cards Here is a list of compatible cards, some of which I have tried personally and some tested by fellow Mac users. Dell TrueMobile 1300 & 1350 (CardBus, 802.11g) Both show up in the Mac PC Card card tool as Broadcom based. This is the best card I have seen and used.
It works without any drivers: simply slot it in your PC Card slot, and when you boot up your Mac it says “new port found, AirPort”. These show up in the PC Card utility as “Broadcom 802.11b CardBus”. 
There are a number of people on eBay selling these cards, the main one being a seller called Value Solution. I have used this card under both 10.4 and 10.5 and it worked perfectly without drivers. This card was tested by myself. C7710a scanner driver for mac. Motorola WN825G (CardBus, 802.11g) Shows up in the Mac PC Card card tool as Broadcom based. This works just the like the Dell TrueMobile 1300. Just slide it in the PC Card slot, and your PowerBook thinks it is an AirPort card. I have used this card under both 10.4 and 10.5 and it worked perfectly without drivers.
This card was tested by myself. Buffalo AirStation WLI-CB-G54A (CardBus 802.11g) Another card the has the same chipset as the Dell TrueMobile 1350 and Motorola WN825G. I have used this card under both 10.4 and 10.5 and it worked perfectly without drivers. This card was tested by myself. Belkin F5D7010 (CardBus 802.11g) Shows up in the Mac PC Card card tool as Broadcom based. This works without third-party drivers in Tiger, but it requires drivers in Jaguar and Panther. Be careful with this one and get an early version.
Belkin changed the chipset in later models, and they are not compatible with Mac OS X. This card was tested by myself. Asante FriendlyNET AeroLAN AL5403-XG (CardBus 802.11g) I haven’t personally tried this card, but I am assured that it works. It requires no additional software and works with Apple’s AirPort software. This is a very hard card to find. Sonnet Aria Extreme G54-CB (CardBus 802.11g) I haven’t personally tried this card, but I am assured that it works.
