I purchased an old Mac Pro to use as a home server. It has no WiFi card. I have a generic Wireless N USB dongle. I got it a long time ago and it's not branded. Windows installs the drivers automatically so I never put much thought into it. System report in OSX tells me the below. Import folders from outlook to gmail. 802.11n WLAN Adapter: Product ID: 0x8176 Vendor ID: 0x0bda (Realtek Semiconductor Corp.) Version: 2.00 Serial Number: 01 Speed: Up to 480 Mb/sec Manufacturer: 802.11n WLAN Adapter Location ID: 0xfd500000 / 4 Current Available (mA): 500 Current Required (mA): 500 What chances do I have of getting it running? I use a realtek driver that works for my USB wifi adapter that has a realtek chipset, and they have several different versions. It works just fine on Leopard and Snow Leopard. The drivers are labeled 8187, 8187B and 8187L. It's not showing as a network in the Network settings. Edit: I found the driver disk and it has drivers up to 10.6. Also I found a post which seems to say that it has worked on Lion. Copied below. I use an Realtek based noname USB WIFI Stick: 802.11n WLAN Adapter: BSD-Name: en1 Produkt-ID: 0x8176 (RTL8188CUS chip) Hersteller-ID: 0x0bda (Realtek Semiconductor Corp.) Version: 2,00 Seriennummer: 01 Geschwindigkeit: Bis zu 480 MBit/s Hersteller: Realtek The realtek drivers (comes with an Wifi Util that runs on startup) works with Lion 64 Bit 10.7.2 C40. Realtec supports OS X good (fast updates).
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