Xbox 360 Wireless Receiver for Windows

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Xbox 360 Wireless Receiver for Windows

I recently bought a Xbox 360 Wireless Receiver for Windows USB adapter. This is the adapter that will allow you to connect your wireless 360 joysticks and wireless 360 headset to your windows machine. See it here:
http://gear.ign.com/articles/749/749090p1.html?RSSwhen2006-12-04_181200&RSSid=74 9104

My question is has anyone gotten this to work on OS X? Specificly I am talking about the wireless headset. I would love to use the Xbox wireless headset on my MB Pro while playing online games like Warcraft.

There is a driver out there that will allow you to connect a controller to the mac but this does not address the headset.
http://tattiebogle.net/index.php/ProjectRoot/Xbox360Controller/OsxDriver

Any help is appreciated.

Intel Macbook, Mac OS X (10.4.7)

Posted on Feb 13, 2008 8:30 AM

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DonH49

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Feb 13, 2008 3:41 PM in response to G3Geek

xbox360 wireless receiver and headset works with my macbookpro running Tiger.

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Feb 13, 2008 8:33 PM in response to DonH49

Did you have to install any extra software or drivers or anything? The headset does not appear as a selectable sound source in my preferences.

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DonH49

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Feb 14, 2008 3:18 AM in response to G3Geek

wireless setup at first I had troubles because my network uses the Apple Extreme N router. I connected the Apple Express router to the Extreme using bridge mode and wireless select create own network with WEP security. Once that setup occurred the xbox360 connected ti my wireless network.

http://www.nullriver.com/products/connect360 to get the software pane to enable Macs to share with the xbox360...ie photos, movies and music.

Then we purchased the headset and just connected it to the xbox360 hardware, no problem.

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Apr 8, 2008 3:52 AM in response to DonH49

Hmm well the software you link to seems nice for streaming content to the xbox 360, but what I want to know is how you got the wireless headset to work with your mac.

Windows supports the use of the wireless headset with the receiver for use in games and VoIP apps, so I'm certain it could work on the mac too with a suitable driver.

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