[GLLUG] Anyone with experience with Macs and AirPort Extreme?

Mon Jun 16 08:09:47 EDT 2008

DLink WUA1340

card: http://www.dlink.com/products/?pid=477
driver: ftp://ftp.dlink.com/Wireless/wua1340/Drivers/wua1340_drivers_117.dmg

On Jun 16, 2008, at 7:59 AM, Michael George wrote:

> That is actually what I'm leaning towards.  I just hadn't looked into
> which ones were compatible with 10.5 yet.
>
> On Mon, June 16, 2008 7:33 am, Eduardo Cesconetto wrote:
>> another solution is to use a USB wireless adapter, Blekin and DLink
>> both make Mac compatible a/b/g cards
>>
>> On Jun 15, 2008, at 9:31 PM, Michael George wrote:
>>
>>> Well, what I found is that there are a lot of networking problems  
>>> with
>>> 10.5.  Most of what I found had to do with extremely poor  
>>> performance
>>> and continuously dropped connections.  One post in particular said
>>> that
>>> the Airport Extreme devices were no longer playing well with Cicso
>>> WAPs.
>>> Whether the "cisco problem" extends into their Linksys
>>> acquisitions, I
>>> do not know.
>>>
>>> My router is working fine, and I don't have any plans to change it.
>>> If
>>> I had a greater need for the Mini to work I might try OpenWRT, or  
>>> even
>>> go back to the Linksys Firmware for the WRT54G...
>>>
>>> Given that the 10.4 systems and WinXP were no-effort connections,  
>>> I am
>>> inclined to blame Apple and I am hoping that a future update might
>>> resolve the issue.
>>>
>>> Karl Schuttler wrote:
>>>> It might be worthwhile to see if the problem exists in OpenWRT,
>>>> another linux firmware for the WRT line. OpenWRT isn't tough,
>>>> especially if you've done any networking in linux, but it is mostly
>>>> command line (no web gui out of the box). It may be the easiest
>>>> migration to make it work, if you find that others aren't running
>>>> into
>>>> this issue.
>>>>
>>>> On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 6:18 AM, Michael George
>>>> <george at idealso.com> wrote:
>>>>> Yes, those bastards.  This is not an isolated dd-wrt issue, it has
>>>>> been
>>>>> happening to many people with the Airport Extreme devices under
>>>>> 10.5.
>>>>> It was a problem at 10.5.1 (but not under 10.4) and still is now.
>>>>> They
>>>>> aren't giving it attention because they made it work with their
>>>>> WAPs.
>>>>> If it doesn't work with Ciscos, they don't seem to care.
>>>>>
>>>>> I have connected my iBook (10.4) with no hesitation.  I have
>>>>> connected
>>>>> Windows XP with no problem.  The software running in dd-wrt is in
>>>>> very
>>>>> wide use and I'm sure if there were problems with it meeting the
>>>>> standards of 802.11b/g, they would get fixed.  However, Apple
>>>>> adopted an
>>>>> unfinished (beta) spec (802.11n) and put it into production
>>>>> hardware.
>>>>> Internal to the computer, no less.  When it isn't backwards
>>>>> compatible
>>>>> their best answer (not that they gave one) is "spend several
>>>>> hundred $$
>>>>> and get one of *our* WAPs".
>>>>>
>>>>> If you think dd-wrt is such junk, then why don't you download the
>>>>> latest
>>>>> linksys firmware and install it on your router?  When you do,  
>>>>> please
>>>>> tell me if your problem goes away...
>>>>>
>>>>> Eduardo Cesconetto wrote:
>>>>>> Those bastards? I blame your crappy Open Source driven router, I
>>>>>> have
>>>>>> the same issue with my WRT54GL w/ DD-WRT is junk too... You get
>>>>>> what u
>>>>>> pay for...
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Jun 14, 2008, at 9:20 PM, Michael George wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Well, no go on either of these.  I can set up an ad-hoc network
>>>>>>> with my
>>>>>>> iBook and an original AirPort card (802.11b?), but it keeps
>>>>>>> getting
>>>>>>> connection timeouts to the Linksys/dd-wrt WAP.  I am not about
>>>>>>> to spend
>>>>>>> $300 for a Apple WAP to connect this thing.  Those bastards make
>>>>>>> incompatible hard/firmware and expect me to spend more $$ on
>>>>>>> them?  No
>>>>>>> way.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Sean O'Malley wrote:
>>>>>>>> It doesnt really seem to be a related issue, but the early 2006
>>>>>>>> minis
>>>>>>>> have a firmware update for them. It is called
>>>>>>>> Apple Mac mini early 2006 SMC Firmware
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> A more related fix would be:
>>>>>>>> ----
>>>>>>>> from http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?p=4993837
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Alright, so we know that after updated to 10.5.2 people were
>>>>>>>> still
>>>>>>>> having
>>>>>>>> trouble with Airport. I was one of them, and I figured it out.
>>>>>>>> Here is
>>>>>>>> what I did:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> 1. Navigate to Library\Preferences\SystemConfiguration
>>>>>>>> 2. Locate com.apple.airport.preferences.plist
>>>>>>>> 3. Drag it to trash
>>>>>>>> 4. Hit the spotlight, type in "Keychain Access"
>>>>>>>> a) Remove all passwords to every network
>>>>>>>> *now I don't know if that's necessary, but I did it, and it
>>>>>>>> worked*
>>>>>>>> 5. Restart Leopard
>>>>>>>> 6. Connect to a network and you should be problem free
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> By deleting com.apple.airport.preferences.plist and restarting
>>>>>>>> your
>>>>>>>> system, you are allowing Leopard to create the new 10.5.2 file.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> My theory is, is that the two conflicted with each other so it
>>>>>>>> wasn't
>>>>>>>> copied properly, and thats why some people had the problem and
>>>>>>>> some
>>>>>>>> didn't.
>>>>>>>> ---
>>>>>>>> my guess is you just need to axe the password to the airport.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> That at least lets you start the config from scratch. :)
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Sean
>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>> -M
>>>>>>>
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>
>
> -Michael George