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Hi all...

 

I have been a windows user for about 13 years now. I have not used a mac since 1985 or so - I have played with one here and there at compusa - but never had the desire to Drop a few G's on a Computer I might not like or use much.

 

Once I saw all the success of the JaS installer I decied to give it a shot. I found Jas and painstakenly over days tried to get it to my DVD burner to make a Install disk.

 

FInally after buring the JaS installer to a dvd I popped it into my AMd 2200XP machine - guess what NO GO since it don;t support sse2 extentions. Now I was really curious - I hit the web and looked that the requirements and needing a new PC anyways - I fould a home built AMD X2 64 3000+ on a Gigabyte k8n-ultra 9 MOBO with 769 meg of DDR 2 ram - an 80 GIG HD SATA - an ATI X300 Video card - Audio AC97 onboard - Dual Burner in a nice tall ANTEC case for $250 on craigs list - decided PERFECT - called the dude - bought the PC. Tried to install a few times and NOTHING - it would install to 100% then not reboot or not make it past the boot screen opf OS X. SO I decided to throw in a better video card (i had laying around) GForce 6600 128 meg of ram card - and pop in a EIDE 10 GB HDD since i think the SATA drive might have been an issue too - and for good measure found the PPF2 patch and patched the ISO of JaS installer - Reburned the Disk and Installed it.

 

All looks good - after install

 

on first reboot the screen went dark and never came back...

 

Rebooted again - it finally booted into OSX and walked me through the Introduction and setup - but SIDEWAYS on my screen so I atually had to turn my monitor on the side to read it and move the mouse correctly.

 

Then I rebooted again and the Video layed out Perfectly - I even changed the resolution to MAX and it looks great.

 

So all looks good on my install -

 

I feel like such a newbie - I know nothing about mac's - I really want to be open minded and learn and play with them as much as I can.

 

I hit my first SNAG -

 

My wireless card - according to the WIKI of the OSX86 project my card is supported - but there are some tweeks to be done - and I don't understand them - I really need someone to hold my hand for a while - so I decided to look around google and it lead me here.

 

My card is a LINKSYS WMP11 V2.7

 

According to old forum post's people were in the past able to get this card to work naitely in their mac's PCI slots - and according to the OSX86 wiki they are supported in INTEL and AMD OSX machines - but I don't understand how to make it work.

 

the OSX86 WIKI says -Linksys WMP11 v2.7 PCI Adapter - Broadcom Chipset (edited Airport2 kext file - add device ID ending with zero).

 

If anyone has any idea or can help me get this to work I would appreciate it.

 

Hope to hear from someone and all advice is welcome.

 

Other Advice I need is this - I know windows PC and applications very well.

 

Once I get this MAC online - what other applications or additions do i need to find / buy and install to really make my experience everything it can be.

 

Thanks again in advance,

Kris

 

Quick Edit - When I click - ABOUT THIS MAC - only once did i get a responce - most and all other times it seems like it crashes - it just resets the desktop screen and closes all my windows. Interesting!!!

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