IOXperts 802.11b Driver for Mac OS X -> BreezeNET wireless LAN adapter support

DJ Stale djstale at hotmail.com
Sun Apr 9 17:35:56 GMT 2006



I have a PowerBook G4 550 Mhz with no built-in WiFi.
I am trying to find a way to use the WiFi PCMCIA card
I already own with the PowerBook.

The WiFi card is a BreezeNET PRO.11 SA-PCR Wireless
LAN Adapter

This adapter is allegedly IEEE 802.11 compliant.  As
far as I can determine, this card is *not* a Cardbus
card.

At the present time, BreezeCOM (or rather, the company
they became, Alvarion.com) provides Linux support for
this card, but not Macintosh support.

I saw on this page of the IOXperts website that
support for cards other than those on the
compatibility list (
http://www.ioxperts.com/devices/devices_80211b.html )
could be possible, at the slightest chance, if TupleDumper
from the Apple PC Card SDK is used to provide debug
output to assist IOXperts in adding support.

At present, I do not have Classic mode available on my
Macintosh, and TupleDumper does not run on OSX.  I did
not see an obvious OSX equivalent in the Apple FTP site, so I
net-searched and found out that closest OSX equivalent
to getting TupleDumper output would be to get the
IOPCCardFamily package out of the Darwin project
source, edit the PC Card driver sample, change its
.plst file, compile it and load it via kextload. Then,
run the shell script dump_cis.

That is something unlike anything I have done before.
So, before I try to do all of that to get Tuple
output, I wanted to contact IOXperts to find out if my
effort in pursuing that task would be in vain.... is
there any chance the BreezeNET card would be supported
by the IOXperts 802.11b Driver for Mac OS X product?

Thank you.




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