Wireless w/Mac

[sratner]

Im expecting my Wireless card any moment now and was wondering if anyone has tips/ problems... etc... for using the wireless card with a MAc... is anyone doing it??? hows it going im really psyched to try it... got airport at home....

[xDownForNowx]

Enjoy posting to cliesource while on the can :)

[tman]

Well, there's not much you can do with the Clie and wireless with the Mac, per se. (I'm assuming you are talking about 802.11b here.) Which is to say, you can't get the Mac and Clie to talk to each other via 802.11b. This is because Palm Desktop 4.0 for the Mac doesn't yet support network hotsync, so the one thing you might want to do with your Mac wirelessly won't work. The only way to hotsync wirelessly right now with a mac is via BT.

On the other hand, the wireless card will work with the airport base station just fine, so you can use it to access the net via airport. It even works with "software base station" (or I guess it's now called "internet sharing") on the Mac. At work, I don't have an airport base station, but use the airport card in my PB to connect the Clie to the net.

Here's to hoping that Palm will fix this in Palm Desktop 5.0.