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The Book of Wireless, Second Edition
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The Book of Wireless, Second Edition

by John Ross
January 2008
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
336 pages
9h 43m
English
No Starch Press
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Using Non-Apple Adapters with a Mac

Most Macintosh owners will probably want to use an AirPort Extreme Card rather than some other brand of network adapter because the AirPort software is so closely integrated with Mac OS networking functions, but it's also possible to install a different brand of USB-based wireless network adapter if you can find driver and control software for the Mac OS version used by your computer. In many cases, the Wi-Fi adapters from other makers cost considerably less than similar Apple products.

The Apple AirPort Extreme adapter uses a Broadcom bcm43xx chip set (for older models) or the Atheros chip set (for newer models on Intel-based Macs), so the driver and control software may work with other brands that contain the ...

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