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11/4/2005

Due to popular demand…

Filed under: — Katsushiro @ 10:46 pm



Due to popular demand…

Originally uploaded by Katsushiro.

The iMac! Also shown: the iPod (15 GB, 3rd gen.), and my 30 GB external drive.



2 Responses to “Due to popular demand…”

  1. Hussy Says:

    http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9937614/site/newsweek/

    has nothing to do with the iMac, but I think you should read it.

  2. TechgnosisWeb Prime » Katsu: 1, Unsupported Wireless USB Adapters on the Mac: 0 Says:

    [...] So, you may have heard that I recently got an iMac. And as I mentioned back then, I set it up in the bedroom, and due to a general desire to not have ugly Cat5 Ethernet cables strung from the bedroom to the computer room (and in the interest of retaining the peace in my relationship), I bought a Belkin F5D7050_V2 USB Wireless G Adapter (I already have a little D-link Wireless Router/Firewall/VPN appliance). Setting up this little monster was not an easy task: While Belkin does make drivers and a ‘Wireless manager’ applet for it, they only work on Mac OS X 10.3.. and I have 10.4, of course. Tech support was useless: no, they don’t have a 10.4 driver, no, they don’t know when, or even if, they plan to have one available. Some searching on Google and various message boards turned up an alternative driver, apparently made by the people who actually manufacture the chip set that’s inside the adapter. This one worked… to a point. For the past several weeks, I’ve gotten used to having to ‘re-activate’ my wireless connection on the Mac every 10 minutes or so. For some unknown reason, it would just lose the connection periodically, making web browsing, instant messaging, or file transfers very annoying, to say the least. I tried everything: checking to make sure it was getting proper signal, tweaking the type of authentication I used (From WPA with a max-sized key to low-grade WEP, to just plain old open access, and back), I tried tweaking the settings on the Mac and the Router both, but nothing worked. I would just keep getting kicked off. [...]

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