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Hey guys, I was looking for an expresscard 34mm to use with my sony vgn-n385e notebook. I have done a little bit of searching and was able to find this: http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=28463

 

However this seems a bit outdated and it only points to 54mm cards. Is there anyone that knows anything about these 34mm cards?

 

thanks in advance

Doing some more research here:

 

It looks like the only 34mm pcie expresscard {censored} is going to be the new 802.11n cards. Fortunately I just bought a new router and chose to get the 802.11n. If this "upgrade" works I will be happy.

 

 

Here's the three I've found on newegg:

 

BELKIN F5D8073 N Wireless ExpressCard Adapter - Retail $66.99

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16839314011

 

BELKIN F5D8071 N1 Wireless ExpressCard - Retail $89.99

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16839314007

 

D-Link DWA-643 Xtreme N Notebook ExpressCard - Retail $99.99

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16839127004

 

 

Hopefully these cards have osx drivers. I'm assuming that If they have osx drivers that I'll be able to get them working. I'll be sure to let you guys know what I found out.

http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/archives/aug07/082407.html#S23221

 

It sounds like the F5D8071 might be able to work.

 

 

If native mac osx users have to do this crazy {censored}goose hack to get it to work. I can't wait to add another challenge to it, getting it to work on a computer that mac osx doesn't natively run on.

 

So this means that my dumbass is going to go buy one of these things, get very excited when I get it, plug it up, and still not get it to work in my uphuck 1.4.9 1.4i

 

 

I guess this is what it means to put the angst in gangsta.

  • 1 year later...

I have a Belkin N1, model F5D8071 .

It does not work, get recognised in Hack and real mac as unsupported:

Type: Other Network Controller

Driver Installed: No

Bus: PCI

Slot: PCI Slot 3

Vendor ID: 0x168c

Device ID: 0x0024

Subsystem Vendor ID: 0x1799

Subsystem ID: 0x8071

Revision ID: 0x0001

Link Width: x1

Link Speed: 2.5 GT/s

 

according to Vendor and Device ID this seems to be an Atheros.

Is there some way to mod IO8.... to get it recognised?

I also installed the Airport N driver but got no succes.

 

My hack is a Dell Inspiron 9400 and the strange thing is it does not work with original Apple Aiport Extreme, but that seems to be machine specific. Now I use a Dell 130 with Broadcom 4311 which does work.

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