lstep Posted February 17, 2008 Share Posted February 17, 2008 As far as I know Apple does not ship any computers with PCI slots. I have Leopard installed on a Gigabyte GA-G33M-DS2R based system. Everything works great except that no PCI cards are ever recognized (they are recognized in Linux, Windows) on my system. It's not even an issue of them working. OSX doesn't even know they are there! For example, the PCI wireless card: PCI Card 802.11g DYNEX DX-WGDTC DYNEX Working out of the box ; shows up as 3rd party AirPort Yes should work (the above is from the wiki). Maybe, if Leopard would know it was there! Is there something one must do to get OSX to actually see PCI cards? ls Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/88149-do-pci-cards-ever-work/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Headrush69 Posted February 17, 2008 Share Posted February 17, 2008 Don't confuse not working with no info showing up in System Profiler. System Profiler info is all cosmetic and has absolutely nothing to do with the functionality of devices. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/88149-do-pci-cards-ever-work/#findComment-628128 Share on other sites More sharing options...
MacUser2525 Posted February 17, 2008 Share Posted February 17, 2008 As far as I know Apple does not ship any computers with PCI slots. I have Leopard installed on a Gigabyte GA-G33M-DS2R based system. Everything works great except that no PCI cards are ever recognized (they are recognized in Linux, Windows) on my system. It's not even an issue of them working. OSX doesn't even know they are there! For example, the PCI wireless card: PCI Card 802.11g DYNEX DX-WGDTC DYNEX Working out of the box ; shows up as 3rd party AirPort Yes should work (the above is from the wiki). Maybe, if Leopard would know it was there! Is there something one must do to get OSX to actually see PCI cards? ls Well I have two pci firewire cards that do not show up in System Profiler but work none the less. So have you actually tried to see if you can configure the wireless conection?? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/88149-do-pci-cards-ever-work/#findComment-628130 Share on other sites More sharing options...
tweak41 Posted February 17, 2008 Share Posted February 17, 2008 As far as I know Apple does not ship any computers with PCI slots. I have Leopard installed on a Gigabyte GA-G33M-DS2R based system. Everything works great except that no PCI cards are ever recognized (they are recognized in Linux, Windows) on my system. It's not even an issue of them working. OSX doesn't even know they are there! For example, the PCI wireless card: PCI Card 802.11g DYNEX DX-WGDTC DYNEX Working out of the box ; shows up as 3rd party AirPort Yes I had the exact same card with a DG965WH and my current P5K-e wifi/ap. Neither recognized the card...So I gave up. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/88149-do-pci-cards-ever-work/#findComment-628136 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mtotho Posted February 17, 2008 Share Posted February 17, 2008 Mac pro has pci cards/slots. There are devices that are compatible with the pci slots.. such as fire wire, lan, some sound. It just depends on what it is and if it has the correct chipsets. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/88149-do-pci-cards-ever-work/#findComment-628183 Share on other sites More sharing options...
lstep Posted February 20, 2008 Author Share Posted February 20, 2008 Well I have two pci firewire cards that do not show up in System Profiler but work none the less. So have you actually tried to see if you can configure the wireless conection??Yep, I tried for days. Editing various plists, etc... There was nothing to configure since there was no option to add a wireless device. I finally used a USB Ralink based network device and it worked (and was seen by System Profiler). Did your Firewire cards just work or did you have to edit something?Glad to hear that PCI cards can work!lsHmm... I thought the Mac Pro only had PCI-e slots? ls Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/88149-do-pci-cards-ever-work/#findComment-633966 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lactobacillus P Posted February 20, 2008 Share Posted February 20, 2008 My G4 Digital Audio comes with an AGP and PCI ports Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/88149-do-pci-cards-ever-work/#findComment-634018 Share on other sites More sharing options...
MacUser2525 Posted February 20, 2008 Share Posted February 20, 2008 Yep, I tried for days. Editing various plists, etc... There was nothing to configure since there was no option to add a wireless device. I finally used a USB Ralink based network device and it worked (and was seen by System Profiler). Did your Firewire cards just work or did you have to edit something?Glad to hear that PCI cards can work!lsHmm... I thought the Mac Pro only had PCI-e slots? ls Never had to do a thing they just work... for anyone searching they are Dynex brand 3 port with the Agere L-FW323-06 chipset or an Audigy sound card with the firewire port will just work as well. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/88149-do-pci-cards-ever-work/#findComment-634033 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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