How to make a PPC running driver work on an Intel-Based Mac ?

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How to make a PPC running driver work on an Intel-Based Mac ?

Hi everyone, i'm from France, so my english won't be very good.

I'm trying to get a driver, originaly running on Tiger (PPC processor), working on an Intel-based mac on Leopard, but i absolutely don't know how to do that.

Can some one help me ? Is there some basis i should have ? Are drivers running on PPCs really different from those running on a inbtel-based mac ??

Thank you so much for any information !

Hub

Mac OS X (10.5)

Posted on Jan 11, 2008 1:25 PM

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Answer 1

DonH49

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Jan 11, 2008 3:43 PM in response to Hubert Chauvat

What's the software called? Or hardware?

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Answer 2

capaho

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Jan 11, 2008 4:57 PM in response to Hubert Chauvat

There isn't much you can do to get a driver to work other than to install it and see if it works. You don't say what device it's for, but I would say that a driver written for PPC architecture would have a slim chance of working on an Intel Mac, unless it was compiled as a universal binary.

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Answer 3

Jan 12, 2008 12:13 AM in response to Hubert Chauvat

The driver is for a Wifi USB Key (to replace my Airport which is out of order). It's a Sagem XG 760A. I found drivers for 10.4 at http://lgsagem.free.fr/drivers_wifi__pcmcia_etusb.htm, but when i want to run it, i get a message telling me that this program can't be run on an Intel-Based Mac.

Is it that hard to rewrite drivers ? Is there no way to "convert" this driver to make it work on Intel processor ?

Thank you by advance,

Hub

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