After much research, and the help of others in the Ralink forums, I found a solution. and that the maker ( Ralink) had an OS X driver available on their site.īut I quickly was disappointed: I could only use it when I had no password assigned to my wireless network! It just wouldn't work when my WEP encryption was enabled. So I came across a one-year-old hint here, which made me purchase it, because the hint (and replies) stated that 'rev B1' of this dongle used a chipset that was Mac-compatible. What? They don't make any of these for Macs? D-Link made one two years ago, but its new version (the DWL-G122) doesn't support OS X any more.
It's worse if you have an old G3 CRT iMac: the already-expensive card needs an exepensive adapter! So you look on the internet for a cheap USB WiFi dongle solution, like many of your PC friends own.
Like me, you probably don't want to buy an expensive AirPort Extreme card.
Let's say you have an 'old' Mac you want to wirelessly connect to your AirPort network.