Existing users, 
Too bad this driver isn't as nice as the 3com 3CRXJK10075 card I bought to go with it.
OrangeWare loses major points for doing what appears to be the bare minimum to get this driver working.
The card will associate with and talk to open or WEP-protected B/G networks, and that's about it.
Even though the positively byzantine control panel teases you with it, it WILL NOT do WPA. (Confirmed by reading the fine print on their website.)
*Powering off the card from within OS X, removing it then re-inserting it or any other card, will cause a kernel panic every time.
*If you have a card like the 3com X-Jack with a retractable antenna, unsleeping the laptop before extending the antenna will cause a kernel panic 75% of the time.
Their customer support was pretty disappointing too. I wrote them a very civil email outlining my issues with the card. They wrote back telling me that they were _never_ going to implement WPA in that driver and they didn't address the kernel panic issues at all.
Dear Orangeware: please go Chapter 7 before you can spew any more bad software into the world.
Wireless Driver
for many 802.11a/b/g cards
Version: 3.3
No WPA for you! But lots of happy fun kernel panics.
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Contributed by: mikep9 Saturday, March 31 2007 @ 01:36 PM PDT
Product Platform: MacOSX
Used Product For: 1-6 months
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No WPA for you! But lots of happy fun kernel panics. - spirochete
Hmm......Wait until you've had to re-install a few times and you get the "install number exceeded" message!
I used OWC's driver to get a DLink card working in a G4 - it does work but you need to re-re-install (with verification derived from their site) if you carry out an OS rebuild / run multiple MacOS versions on the same box.
A few installs later and I get the "Installs exceeded" message - mailed support 24 hrs ago - nothing so far - so I'm stuffed at the moment.
(PLUS - its broken under 10.5 as well!)
Will probably dump this approach in favour of a MacOS compatible PCI card.
:(
Spiro'
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