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Setting up (non-airport) wireless?
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<blockquote data-quote="dan828" data-source="post: 190307" data-attributes="member: 8468"><p>The problem is with the drivers-- there aren't any for the MSI US54G stick you are using. As a matter of fact, it seems pretty rare to find <strong>anything</strong> that you can use other than Apple's airport hardware. I have an old D-link USB stick that had drivers for Mac, but they quit updating it and they no longer run on the current version of OSX. It didn't work with the Mini anyways, install the drivers and plug it in and you got the OSX equivalent of the BSOD (only time I've seen it with a Mac BTW). Most companies don't support the Mac when it comes to wireless networking.</p><p></p><p>I was able to find a Canadian company a while back that sold me the airport/bluetooth upgrade package for the Mini. It was a royal PITA to install-- it didn't actually take that long but you have to pry open the case with a couple of putty knives and then disassemble just about the entire thing in order to plug in the card and route the antenna cables. Needless to say, the warranty is likely void after such surgery.</p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.vistek.ca/details/details.aspx?eCode=220182&TYPE=&Specs=N&Box=N" target="_blank">http://www.vistek.ca/details/details.aspx?eCode=220182&TYPE=&Specs=N&Box=N</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dan828, post: 190307, member: 8468"] The problem is with the drivers-- there aren't any for the MSI US54G stick you are using. As a matter of fact, it seems pretty rare to find [b]anything[/b] that you can use other than Apple's airport hardware. I have an old D-link USB stick that had drivers for Mac, but they quit updating it and they no longer run on the current version of OSX. It didn't work with the Mini anyways, install the drivers and plug it in and you got the OSX equivalent of the BSOD (only time I've seen it with a Mac BTW). Most companies don't support the Mac when it comes to wireless networking. I was able to find a Canadian company a while back that sold me the airport/bluetooth upgrade package for the Mini. It was a royal PITA to install-- it didn't actually take that long but you have to pry open the case with a couple of putty knives and then disassemble just about the entire thing in order to plug in the card and route the antenna cables. Needless to say, the warranty is likely void after such surgery. [url]http://www.vistek.ca/details/details.aspx?eCode=220182&TYPE=&Specs=N&Box=N[/url] [/QUOTE]
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