D-link NIC with Tiger?

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news.rcn.com - 18 Dec 2006 15:31 GMT

I just formatted my drive and reinstalled Tiger and my DLink NIC. Everything
is now installed properly, it seems.

But the NIC is acting strangely: It wont connect to my network properly. It
reports a 100% signal and a proper connection but says that the WEP password
which I put in and which it accepted is wrong. It isn't.

It also wont connect to a neighbour's network.it connects and reports a
connection between 60 and 100% and gets on to the Internet but drops the
connection after a few minutes, all the while showing the 60% connection!

Anyone know what might be going on please?

Everything was working properly and easily before the re-install,everything
else on which works properly.

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Larry Weil - 23 Dec 2006 21:30 GMT

> I just formatted my drive and reinstalled Tiger and my DLink NIC.
> Everything is now installed properly, it seems.
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> Everything was working properly and easily before the
> re-install,everything else on which works properly.

The D-Link NIC's only work thru 10.2.8. Their tech support told me they
may write a new driver for higher systems, but couldn't say when.

The only one I found that works with Tiger is the Sonnett Digabit card.
It's pricy ($79), but it was the only thing I could do after the built-
in NIC in my G4 was destroyed by lightning. It was still cheaper than
replacing the motherboard for $800 plus labor.

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D-link NIC with Tiger?