I installed the Belkin F5D card and the driver yesterday. It did not work at all: I couldn't reach the Interent with it, none of the four lights on the card's metal frame ever came on, and the ethernet cable connection light on my DSL modem a Westell VersaLink Model W never acknowledge that the card was cabled to it.
We verified that the modem and cable do work properly by connecting it to a Dell portable running Windows, and then reaching the Internet through it without incident. So I called Belkin again -- several times. Two of their Technical Support people and one of their Sales people each independently confirmed to me that the Belkin F5D card is not compatible with Apple computers and neither is the Belkin Model F5D card.
A fourth one in Technical Support told me that the F5D was compatible, but that Belkin had not yet been able to put up the correct driver on their web site. He said I would need to get the driver from Apple. He wasn't able to offer a plausible explanation for why Apple should have a driver that would work with Belkin equipment when Belkin didn't.
I called Apple anyway. Apple was as surprised by that idea as I was. He was not able to tell me who makes the card. So, I'm still dead in the water, but I am now convinced that Belkin is convinced that it does not have a wired network PCI card that is compatible with Apple computers in general. Maybe they changed the chipset used on the card since ? I should add, one of Belkin's people recommended that I go with their F5D card.
But that is a wireless solution that works on the USB port. Besides, I've had it with Belkin. Sincerely yours, Robert W. It is also supported out of the box on OS X Tiger. No need for drivers. Works great. Another thing worth mentioning. Luckily, the good folks at Sustainable Softworks have a page at the ready with drivers they have written for these adaptors www. Although not specifically mentioned in their compatibility list, the USB is supporterd by their latest driver. This is mentioned on another page in their forums.
Just received it this morning. Still testing, but it seems to work well. One word of caution: for it to work at top speed, the USB port must be 2. As always, a loyal fan of your wonderful site, -Istvan F. The card pictured on the box is detailed enough to show the RTL chipset for what its worth, and further investigation shows FAv2 on the side of the box as well as on the card itself. Thanks for the great resource!
More Notes on Intel Pro Cards: Although some past reports here noted native support, this reader said his model wasn't supported in After installing it in my G4 Sawtooth under OS It uses the PI chipset.
I don't know if the latest AppleIntelX. Hopefully, Apple will update their plugin in the wake of their new partnership with Intel. I'm not holding my breath. In the meantime, I guess this card is going into my PC. Thanks for your very helpful site, F. Sonnet ATA card.
Card works fine, haven't tried IPv6 yet. Interesting to note that the driver on the disk is So, there's a "blind spot" for My built in Ethernet port died and I put this card in and it recognized and uses it without problem. Four Seasons Consulting, Inc. The card was recognized by Tiger, so I didn't install any driver software on my Tiger drive. Based on a report from another reader, I disabled IPv6.
I may experiment to see if turning it on gives me problems, if I can find the time. The software that comes with the card is for OS I downloaded the Realtek Panther driver, got it installed, and tried transferring some files while booted from the Panther drive. I didn't have any problems with straight drag and drop transfers.
Data Backup backing up from my MDD to the generated some errors, but it's fussy about backing up over the network using the built-in ethernet, so I can't be sure that the card had anything to do with the errors. Data Backup did back up a lot of files successfully. The two gigabit-capable Macs are connected to a Netgear 5-port gigabit switch. The switch is connected to a Linksys router. I transferred some music and image folders. The machine seems to wake from deep sleep without a problem: but it was only asleep for about 30 seconds.
I turn these machines off when they are not in use. Thanks for your great site. It's an invaluable resource for the Mac community. After a lot of troubleshooting, I found out that they don't work properly with IPv6 enabled. With the Apple driver in Using AFP, the Finder would also stop responding. Changing the speed of the ethernet card using the advanced options in network made no difference. I was initially connecting between machines using Bonjour naming, and having the issues described above.
As soon as I started using the IP addresses themselves to connect, the problems went away. After turning off IPv6 in the network system preference, I can use Bonjour names again to connect, and everything works great. FreeFall Software www. Both are running It works on both machines without drivers. It comes with drivers for OS I've installed cards on networks only to find that the integrity wasn't up to 1Gig.
It's interesting to note that they have been supporting the Mac for a long time. Also interesting to note is that even though they mention that Mac drivers are on the CD, they don't have install instructions for them in the manual. Just for the hell of it I called them and was told that over the years they have never gotten a support question from a Mac user.
I guess that says something. Best regards, Mel. After trying the D-Link and Belkin cards under However, I installed the card and went directly in to Network Setup without installing the Realtek driver. I found that the card does, in fact, work without any drivers whatsoever under Sincerely, Cornelius Q. I wanted to see if it would run without the Realtek driver, but didn't realize that I needed to configure the Network preference pane again.
So, ended up installing the Realtek driver before realizing my error. Card works great though. I do not use deep sleep, so I cannot comment on that feature.
Just for the record I asked if he could try putting the system to sleep just to see if the card supported it. Deep sleep worked fine.
By the way, as far as my comment as to the speed of the card, while I observe it to only be about 3 times as fast as fast ethernet, this is about what I see with the Macs we have with built in gigabit ethernet Quicksilvers and MDDs. So speeds appear to be equivalent. I asked Natha to check if the Intel card supports jumbo frames. See if Jumbo frame option is dimmed as it is for onboard Gigabit on macs I have. Jumbo frames is dimmed, but I don't have jumbo frames turned on on our switches Dell PowerConnects.
I'm guessing it's dimmed for this reason -- probably the same for your Macs. Apple's kbase doc on Mac OS X Warnings: 1. All devices on a local network must be configured to use Jumbo Frames, or loss of connectivity could occur on that network. All devices on the local network must support use of Jumbo Frames. Few network switches support Jumbo Frames, and sending them to a switch that does not support them may cause the switch to stop operating.
Check the specifications of network hardware prior to enabling Jumbo Frames. Even if your devices are Jumbo Frame compatible, Jumbo Frames are not needed under most circumstances. Be sure you have a need for them before using this procedure. Jumbo Frames can be used on the built-in Ethernet port only on the Xserve G5.
I guess we all know the reason why this works with Apple's recent announcement. The package contents of the IONetworkingFamily. I haven't had the opportunity to fully test it but I am using it as for my network connection as I type this. Michael G. Computer Technologist just for the record I asked if the card supported deep sleep. That is unknown at this time. I've always had trouble with deep sleep in the past so much so that I only have the monitor go to sleep. If I get the chance I give it a try.
If anyone tries one of them with Tiger let me know if there's native support or if the driver still works in Tiger. Lots of reports from Tiger users of 3rd party wireless networking adapters that said drivers were broken in tiger. Native supported in airport 3. Surecom Gigabit Ethernet card added Marc " www. Surecom has drivers for it, for Thanks, Martin J. Realtek but I've not looked at this card.
I was looking for a fast ethernet pci card and found some very good info on your site. Great resource. I thought I would send along my experience even though there did not seem to be alot of recent activity.
I found from the system profiler that this card did not have the realtek chip even though the name is similar. It works. I suspect it was the slot. There does not seem to be any OS 9 support or I would put the card in other macs the kids have. Again Great Resource. You have to download the driver from the CD that comes with the package but so far they run fine. The box lists MacOS v Links removed as pages no longer online.
Needed to be multihomed. I would have to re-boot to get it working again. When this started happening a couple of times a week, it was time to look for a better solution, preferably higher speed than USB. Installed the driver from the D-Link site that says it is for Re-booted a second time and got no warnings, set up the card in the network preferences and it has worked just fine for one whole day since then.
I will let you know if I run into any problems. I will note that finding a specific chipset for an Ethernet card is next to impossible if you can't see the card in person.
For instance, a report on the Internet led me to buy a Linksys Ethernet card first, but only the 4. The photo on the outside of the box shows a picture of the card, which displays the Realtek logo. This was promosing, so I purchased the card. Sure enough, upon closer inspection of the actual card, I was pleased to learn that this is based on the Realtek chipset. I downloaded the I then popped the card into a free slot, and fired it back up.
Pleased to report that I now have working gigabit on my vintage smurf! Based on your tip see prev. Peter H. It uses the RealTek chipset and the driver from their website works with I've got it installed in a MHz BW G3 Mac and it works fine except that the processor can't push data fast enough to realize gigabit speeds. Tan T. Many home users are probably not going to have GigaBit rated switches, etc.
See report below below for the RealTek driver download page. If anyone tries this card with the realtek drivers send a note. I looked for a manufacturer using the RTL chipset for their card, but expect to have an answer soon.
Most of them supported by the vendor where a little too expensive for us or simply not available in Chile. Dlink even said it would never have support commercial option? So i found out that our Linux friends were using this card with a driver made for another Card from Syskonnect german nic assembler , the 95xxx series.
The extension installed used Apple's Info. I know this works also in Syskonnect Driver : www. Thanks sorry for my bad english , i hope this helps other OSX users. Diego Pino N Krayon Media www. I recently added it to the opendarwin. Source and binaries are available from my opendarwin blog home page www. This driver has wider support than the Apple drivers for tulip clones while the support for genuine DEC chipsets is a little weaker.
That will improve over time. In Works fine. Didier D. OS X Great card. Internal wireless cards, which Apple calls AirPort Cards, have been available for all iBooks from the original MHz clamshell models back in , as well PowerBooks beginning with the Pismo in March However, an awful lot of iBooks, Pismos, and Titanium PowerBooks shipped without an AirPort Card, which was a configure-to-order option or user-installable upgrade in the early years, not standard equipment.
Another potential advantage of a non-Apple wireless adapter for users of metal-skinned PowerBooks, especially those early Titanium models, is that these WiFi cards, with their antenna protruding outside the metal case, can provide substantially better range than the metal-surrounded internal antenna does.
For many users, wireless connectivity is becoming more indispensable than modem support; indeed no Intel-based Mac notebooks has ever shipped with an internal modem.
My new Unibody MacBook is so-equipped. I went for more than half a decade after AirPort's introduction without missing it much. I don't have a home AirPort network; I use hard-wired ethernet instead, and there is only one WiFi hot spot within 50 miles of where I live - at the local public library 12 miles away. My "road" Pismo has also been WiFi capable for the past couple of years, thanks to a very cool little Buffalo G54 OS 9, alas, is not supported. Installing the Buffalo card is simplicity itself.
Red: Card too large. Only for serious hardware hacking, unless your laptop has a full-size mini-pcie bay. The bottom line - All Mac-compatible cards support WiFi Be sure to know what you do and how to do it before whittling away! I have no 5GHz equipment to test it with, dg If you can confirm success with other cards, please let us know.
There is also a lot of information on this site -- please search the forums for your specific type number or vendorID:deviceID. Dual band considerations. Will I need dual band? Some general background worth reading can be found here. Do I need a new laptop antenna to use dual band? But with a 2. Note also that higher frequency signals 5 GHz are more weakened by objects walls etc. Alternatively, if you're able to disable the admin account, it's a bit easier.
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