[DM-MUG] USB Wireless adapter

Ray Bowler rbowler at mchsi.com
Thu Mar 12 09:19:34 CDT 2009


Thanks CW. I have indications that it is talking to the Base Station  
but that the card does not support the WPA. If it is a real question I  
could take it up to my Son-in-law's (he has the original  base  
station) and test it there. Since it came from CompUSA's warehouse I  
bet it doesn't support WPA. If I find one it wll cost $70 or $80.


On Mar 12, 2009, at Mar 12, 20097:47 AM, CW Smith wrote:

> Ray:
>
> I have an original AirPort card I use for testing purposes. I'll  
> need it back, but you could certainly use it to determine whether  
> your card is bad.
>
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> On Mar 12, 2009, at 2:05 AM, Ray Bowler wrote:
>
>> It has been an interesting evening. Network is Home network 2 using  
>> WPA2 Personal. Still had the problem and I wasn't sure that the  
>> Airport Card was shipped in the machine. Right!!!!!  I bought the  
>> iBook and the base station 1/24/2002 from  CompUSA. The Airport  
>> Card was shipped that same day from Dallas.  Neither of the numbers  
>> mentioned in the discussion thread are on my card. I'm back to  
>> questioning the card.
>>
>> On Mar 11, 2009, at Mar 11, 20097:49 PM, Ray Bowler wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks David, Jim and Bryan. I originally thought it was the card  
>>> because when I tried t0 configure it it only gave me WEP as an  
>>> option. I wonder what app. I was into that time. I'm going to get  
>>> the Airport app over there and configure it right.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mar 11, 2009, at Mar 11, 20093:48 PM, Bryan Baker wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> The confusion may also be attributable to this:
>>>>
>>>> http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1792412&tstart=0
>>>>
>>>> Apparently the cards that were shipped for/in computers should  
>>>> all be WPA-able.
>>>> There were cards that originally shipped in the original base  
>>>> station that do not have WPA capabilities, and some have found  
>>>> their way to the used market over the years after being scavenged  
>>>> from old base stations.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Mar 11, 2009, at 2:44 PM, Ray Bowler wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Sorry to confuse the issue. I need to find one which will do  
>>>>> WPA. the one I have Is fine but it will net support WPA so it  
>>>>> cannot connect to my network-or that is what seems to be  
>>>>> happening.
>>>>>
>>>>> On Mar 11, 2009, at Mar 11, 20092:04 PM, j lagnese wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> My iMac doesn't have an extreme card.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 1:06 PM, Ray Bowler <rbowler at mchsi.com>  
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>> Jim,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> It is running OS 10.4. I went to Apple's site and looked for an  
>>>>>> Extreme card but I don't seem to find one. Probably too costly  
>>>>>> if I found one.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Mar 11, 2009, at Mar 11, 200911:49 AM, James Lagnese wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> What version of the OS are you running? I have an old CRT iMac  
>>>>>> with an Airport card (b) and it connects with WPA just fine.  
>>>>>> The OS is 10.4.11.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Wednesday, March 11, 2009, at 11:34AM, "David McLaughlin" <thorgrim at imaginarytower.org 
>>>>>> > wrote:
>>>>>> I have an iBook with a wireless card which will not support WPA
>>>>>> security.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> http://www.newertech.com/products/mxusb_gb.php
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Haven't tried it myself but it supports WPA2.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The big question is if your iBook has USB 2 ports or not.
>>>>>>
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