Belkin Wireless Network Card F5D7010

Thanks Anthony for your excellent advice - by far the best in all of these threads about cardbus wifi cards.

I used Ralink to get the download for my G4 PowerBook 500 with Tiger. The F5D7010 card then appeared as a new network device. When selected the card immediately made contact with my Belkin Wireless G Router using the default settings - just the way you would expect an Apple system to work.
Best wishes
Jeff

What about a Belkin F5D8010 notebook card? I haven't seen any Mac drivers for this pre-N card. Anyone know where to get a driver for this?

Thanks.

While browsing the Belkin websites for a manual for the F5D7010 driver for OSX Tiger, I discovered a driver with the filename F5D7010_10.3.DMG with release date 4/6/2005.

I decided to try it although it is obviously intended for OSX Panther. This
turned out to be a bad choice.

I realized immediately that the driver is not suitable for Tiger when the LEDs on the card did not light during the system reload and then it crashed OSX so badly that it needed four power button restarts.

I un-installed the driver from Belkin and re-installed the driver I downloaded from Ralink and the F5D7010 resumed normal working. Clearly, Tiger is considerably different from Panther in the way it supports cardbus devices.

I am still looking for advice on where to put the pre-shared key when using WPA-PSK encryption.

Just in case this advice helps someone here- I just got an Aria Extreme card for an original Titanium powerbook, and it works perfectly. There was one little hitch on installation- it seems that the Tibook was still trying to use the original airport card.

Tech support at Aria Extreme told me to erase the Airport in "Network Configurations" in your Network preferences. A new Airport option will automatically appear- check the box, click Apply Now, and you're all set.

Worked like a charm- this machine is surfing so fast I can't actually keep up, I'm so used to waiting 😉