Old eMac and would like to get it wireless!

dirtyepic

Hi all,

I don't know if anyone can help me here.

I have just inherited an old eMac, it was born during 2004 and is not capable of a wireless connection.

I purchased a pluscom wireless 54g usb adapter which apparently is mac compatable and after installing the drivers it appears the instruction booklet is only in pc language and gives no instruction whatsoever for macs and I can't even translate or adapt it to suit.

So now I am thinking that this adapter will have to be sold on and a probably more expensive solution will have to be made.

The thing is I can't find any recent threads on numerous forums that can help me as all the solutions given are well out of date.

I really want to get this mac up and running and hope that someone out there can help!

Thanks in advance

dirtyepic

Scrilla

What OS are you running? Also, what does your system profiler say?

It'll give you something like

Hardware Overview:

  Model Name:	      MacBook Pro
  Model Identifier:   MacBookPro5,2
  etc etc

Post the info and we'll see if we can help.

Your other option is to buy something like this or this from, which would work (as it's designed specifically for machines like yours. However, don't buy that one - there's better ones/faster/cheaper. Lets try and get what you've got working first.

troublegum

Or if you don't want to open the machine up, something like this would do. Although it was designed for PS2's, etc it will work fine. It plugs into the ethernet port so no messing with drivers is required.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/NEW-Netgear-WGE111-802-11g-Wireless-Game-Adapter-ca3-/200635232325

EDIT: This seems to be the most up to date version of it here:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Netgear-Universal-Wifi-Internet-Adapter/dp/B003VIWJYI/

david29dpo

Buy an Airport express, sorted.