OrangeWare Offers Driver for Inexpensive Wi-FI Cards
OrangeWare offers $15 driver to Mac users to pick up extra speed: Mac users now have access to many more options for wireless networking through the OrangeWare driver, which can support a/g cards that use chips from Atheros, including its Super G features, which include compression and frame bursting, among other non-radio-frequency improvements in speed among similar devices. A free trial version is available for download. (Some competitors and testing labs believe that the Turbo mode causes interference with nearby non-Turbo Wi-Fi networks. Atheros denies this.)
The driver lists support for a couple dozen cards (PC Cards and PCI cards) and works with Mac OS X 10.2 or later. These cards are typically less than $50 or even as low as $30, while an internal AirPort Extreme Card--if available for a given model--is $100. The driver only shows WEP, not WPA support.