[Wirelessdriver-support] SUCCESS! PBG3, 10.1.5 <-> 10.2, WD4 <-> WD5_1, EN1

[Pi <pi...@up...>]

I do not usually respond to technical forums but this was such a good 
story I could not resist passing on my experience.

I had just upgraded to a new install of Jaguar on a fresh newly 
formatted IBM ultra ATA 30 gig hard disk on my PB G3 400 (Wallstreet) 
with a Skyline wireless PCMCIA card and WirelessDriverBeta5_1 
installed.  The 802.11b connection to both an Airport hub and a Lynksys 
wireless router worked first time flawlessly.

I had formatted the 30 gig hard drive with the Jaguar install CD with 
no OS 9 drivers.  The hard drive worked for a couple of days and then 
stopped spinning up.  The techs at the local Mac shop thought a number 
of things.  They thought that the ultra ATA 30 gig needed too much 
power.  They thought that the hard disk ribbon was bad.  They thought 
that my PB G3 was too old to handle a hard disk with 10.2 only drivers 
on it.  However, the WirelessDriver WORKED until the end.

I put the old Fugitsu 6 gig drive back in my PB G3 that had both 9 & 10 
drivers on it and OS 10.1.5.  Since WirelessDriver5_1 actually worked 
under 10.2 I upgraded to 10.2 and installed that.  It looked like it 
should be working but the EN1 option did not show up.

I uninstalled WD5_1, rebooted, installed WD4, rebooted, and still no 
EN1.

So, since I had read somewhere (in the docs?) that WD5_1 could install 
"over" WD4 I did that, rebooted, and was presented with two 
WirelessConfig entries in my "Other" System Preferences Pane.  
Disregarding that issue temporarily I clicked on Network and sure 
enough EN1 was now an option.  I moved it to the top spot above 
Ethernet and selected it.  BAM!  Full speed ahead...

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