D-Link DWL-122 USB Wireless Adapter

Apple has stopped making and selling the AirPort card but you can still find the cards at places like ExperCom and L.A. Computer Company.

Don't click on the link - right click (or option click) to get the contextual menu (or is it long click) and choose save linked file as...
or check a post a few items down as there seems to be a 1.4.7 driver out there.

I have 4 macs on my home network ... 2 with airport cards and a graphite base station plus 2 B&W units outfitted with two DWL-122 and the latest 1.4.7 drivers i download from a singapore site.

All work great!

and i can now use ichatav2.1 on both B&W's as well as the G4 tower and my laptop!

here's the link:

http://www.dlink.com.sg/products/support.asp?pid=175#drivers
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additional discussions on these drivers available at:

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no problems on my end on 2 B&W's with two DWL-122 using OX.3.7 with the above drivers from singapore using ichatav2.1 in which i have maintained a 3 hr + connection on my own local network (using airport graphite base station).

also connects well to G4 Tower and pismo laptop which both have stock airport cards from apple.

the only bug i have noticed is if one disconects this device while in use on one of the B&W towers it immediately sends it into a kernel panic. mult. user accounts is also problematic whereas standard airport cards work fine.

With regards to the new drivers - does one just install over the existing drivers? ...... NO! run the uninstall first for the older drivers then install the latest version second.

Should the adaptor be unplugged when installing? correct .... up until you get to the system pref's pane in which u will need to activate 10 digit WEP while the adaptor is connected.

my primary objective with this device was to get it working on both B&W towers with ichatav2.1 and OSX.3.7

which i was able to do effectively with the DWL-122, OSX.3, and the signapore drivers. IT DOES WORK. (maybe not as well nor as fast as a stock appple airport card but for $19.99 ...... i'm not complaining!).

Mine works fine with both IE and Safari as well as other apps. Does it hang sometimes on pages ..... yes. Especially when attempting to mult task or when engaging fast user switching. But you know what ...... i can live with this.

In my case the prblem is that it is my step daughter's iBook that she is using at her father's house with a D-Link device provided by his cable internet provider - so while an Airport card would most likely solve the problem it would also cost more that D-Link and or Apple fixing a device which claims right ont he box that it is compatible with Mac OS X - anything that causes the system to hang every 10 minutes is not "compatible"

...so while an Airport card would most likely solve the problem it would also cost more that D-Link...

A inexpensive device that causes problems and hardly works is not a solution.

...and or Apple fixing a device which claims right ont he box that it is compatible with Mac OS X - anything that causes the system to hang every 10 minutes is not "compatible"

It is the responsibility of D-Link to make sure their device works not Apple's.

Visit macupdate.com they have newer drivers. Do a search for d-link. The drivers came out this summer, and they work great. I have 3 running in my classroom.

I apologize if this is a repeat of one of the earlier posts.

I agree that from a technical perspective a faulty inexpensive device is not better than a more expensive functional device - in this case the D-Link cost is $0 and the airport card is at least $60 depending on source.

Yes I agree that it is the repsonsiblity of a third party vendor to test their equipment and repair issues - but I do not have enough technical detail to know at this point whether the issue is a D-link issue or an Apple issue - and I do not know how much the two companies might have to work together - and I also understand that posts in this form is not going to help either company fix any issues that they might have. It is useful still to have this type of discussion here so that other users can contribute and possibly offer solutions or at least become aware that others have issues and to report them.

It is not a good technical solution to say anytime a third party product fails to perform flawlessly that it should automatically be repalced by an apple branded item.

It is not a good technical solution to say anytime a third party product fails to perform flawlessly that it should automatically be repalced by an apple branded item.

I agree with this statement. However when the majority of people using this device report that they are constantly fighting with the device to make it operate, it is time to recommend against it.

Hi Debbie.

Could you send me the new driver for the dwl 122, I have been trying to get it without success.
send me and email at hyve5x@mac.com

Thank you so much

Hugo

did u uninstall the older drivers first by using the uninstall on the download? or did u simply load the new drivers over your existing drivers? (The latter produces the exact results you described above).

In any case, sorry to hear it didn't pan out on your system but it is still working very well on two of my macs (B&W) and i love it!

Thanx D-Link!!

Great little device which i highly recommend on a G3 B&W for connecting to an existing airport base station via 802.11b

Don't suppose you know anywhere in the UK that has them? There's always some on eBay, but they're going for silly money now.

Don't suppose you know anywhere in the UK that has them?

Sorry but I don't have a clue.