idumych Posted December 6, 2006 Share Posted December 6, 2006 I have a dell true mobile wireless card, and from what I've read it should work fine. The only problem is, it's not a PCI device, so the existing tutorial doesn't apply. It worked fine out of the box and was detected as a airport on my old g3 powerbook running tiger, so what's the deal? Anyone have any ideas? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/35072-pc-card-wireless/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rammjet Posted December 6, 2006 Share Posted December 6, 2006 First determine whether your PC Card slot is working in OSX. Then go to Windows and get the device id for the card and use that in the tutorial (that really does apply). Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/35072-pc-card-wireless/#findComment-249008 Share on other sites More sharing options...
idumych Posted December 6, 2006 Author Share Posted December 6, 2006 If you say so. I just don't see how setting it up with a pci id will work if it's a PC card, but your the expert. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/35072-pc-card-wireless/#findComment-249010 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rammjet Posted December 6, 2006 Share Posted December 6, 2006 Cardbus/PC Card/PCMCIA are all names of an external PCI bus. As soon as you plug in your card , the OS quizzes the card for the vendor/device info to associate it with a driver. The "pci id" can take different forms even with PCI cards and seems to have no consistency: pci1234,5678 or 0x(vend)(dev) or 0x(dev)(vend) or reversing the order of the hex bytes are all methods of doing the same thing. Some use decimal numbers instead of hex numbers. No consistency. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/35072-pc-card-wireless/#findComment-249014 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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