Apple Powermacs, do wireless PCI cards work in them?

[AndyWoodall]

I have an '99 vintage Blue and White Powermac G3 tower that I want to bring out of retirement for a time, it'll be going in a bedroom well away from the router so I need to get it hooked up to my wireless network.

Have found a Belkin card that will do, my question is, will it work? I'll be running OSX on the machine and I presume it'll 'see' the card in the same way that my Powerbook does my wireless card in the PC card slot.

Anyone know?

[robbieduncan]

Does the card have OSX drivers? If it does not come with them then it won't work. OSX has drivers for Airport cards only.

[AndyWoodall]

There are no drivers, and Belkin told me it wouldn't work, for my PC card wireless card that I have in my Powerbook, but that works.

There is a Sonnet wireless PCI card I've seen on a mac upgrades website which also doesn't name specific drivers so I think the chances of it working are fairly good.

[PJR]

There are some inexpensive USB wireless dongles that will work, as OS X can support them. Im not generally a fan of using usb for networking, but then i've not tried every possible combination of it either, so it could well still be worth a shot. Particularly as the USB wireless dongles are cheap these days.
I know D-Link make some that work in OS X, and im certain other companies make them also.

Cheers, P

[AndyWoodall]

I have a spare Belkin USB dongle, but OSX support for them seems patchy, plus it doesn't work on my Powerbook so I'd guess that rules it out for the G3.