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bally199
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Hi, I'm looking for some drivers for my Wifi card. It's a Realtek RTL8185, but I can't seem to find any anywhere. The ones on the realtek site are PPC only, and well mine is a "Intel" (AMD Athlon 64 FTW!  ) Mac. Has anyone used this card on OSX? If so, how? Thanks _________________ Kimmotalk is where all the cool people hang.
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big_D
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All the Intel Macs have wi-fi as standard or as an option. I don't think most manufacturers see any point in developing drivers for external wi-fi cards.
Your best bet if you have to go for a third party wi-fi card is to buy one tbat uses the same chipset as the Intel Macs. They should "just work".
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bally199
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I think I remember Nick telling me that you can sometimes use 'nix drivers on OSX? I can see BSD ones working, as OSX is based on it isn't it? :/
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ProfessorF
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OS X is based on Mach, which is sort of based on BSD.
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big_D
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Mach is/was a microkernel branch of UNIX back in the 90s. The BSD part of OS X is the supplied utilities, not the Kernel itself. You would need to get Mach drivers and re-compile them. Either way, you will need to manually re-compile the drivers. As I said, the easiest solution is to use the same chipset used in the Macs... As the only Intel machines supplied without Wireless built in are the mini and Pro, and they both have an Airport option, there really isn't a market for third party wi-fi dongles or cards.
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Linux_User
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 | | | | big_D wrote: Mach is/was a microkernel branch of UNIX back in the 90s. The BSD part of OS X is the supplied utilities, not the Kernel itself. You would need to get Mach drivers and re-compile them. Either way, you will need to manually re-compile the drivers. As I said, the easiest solution is to use the same chipset used in the Macs... As the only Intel machines supplied without Wireless built in are the mini and Pro, and they both have an Airport option, there really isn't a market for third party wi-fi dongles or cards. | | | | |
Even Mac Mini's are shipped with Airport now.
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jonbwfc
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My pro has wifi. Can't remember if it was built in or a BTO option though. <checks applestore> nope, still optional on the mac pro. Every other mac has built-in 802.11n. Jon
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