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which nic can i use?
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hecateh
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Apr 25, 2004, 01:52 PM
 
Hi, guys and girls, I have recently bought a powermac g5 and being new to the whole mac scene I am unsure of what to do in this situation...

I want to use my mac as my household gateway to the net using the internal NIC and a new pci nic. Only problem is I dont know which to buy! Everywhere ive looked 3com,netgear etc dont list macs or os x as supported.

Any help much appreciated!

Ken.
     
bradoesch
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Apr 25, 2004, 02:50 PM
 
Welcome to the Mac.

DLink is fairly Mac friendy and has a PCI Ethernet card that supports the Mac. Quite a few network cards will work on the Mac, even if they aren't advertised as such. If the card uses the DFE530TX+ chipset like this card does, it should work with the right drivers. To make it simple, you could just buy this card.
     
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Apr 25, 2004, 04:07 PM
 
thanks! I just found one on ebay for £1.60. A nice cheap upgrade :-)
     
   
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