As the title states, I've been looking for a driver for this specific Realtek chip for my two G5's. I'm unable to find it anywhere and wonder if anyone has a driver that's functional for these adapters for Mac OS 10.5. I would get an airport card if one of the systems I was planning to use it on wasn't a G5 quad, which I Haven't seen an airport card for on ebay either (I think?) and besides, these would be faster anyway if I could get them to work.
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Looking for RTL8811CU driver for Powermac G5/10.5
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That is probably not going to happen, its just way to new to have drivers, plus its usb 3 which is mostly backwards compatible but sometimes causes issues. You would probably be better off using a pcie wifi card or a known compatible usb one but that will probably give you wifi n at best. I would use pcie if possible, apparently there are some models of mini pcie wifi cards from early intel macs that you can put into a mini pcie to pcie adapter. Really most cards with the right chipset should work and be detected by the system as a factory airport card, i have a linksys cardbus wifi card thats detected and works as a factory airport in my powerbook G3 lombards slot. Again any compatible chipset will probably give you wifi n speeds at best. If you need faster its probably easier to get one of those wifi ethernet bridges that connects via ethernet and bridges to wifi. If you search pcie wifi card for g5 quad you should be able to find all the info you need for any of those solutions.
The RTL8811CU is an 802.11ac card. What we’ve learnt over the last little while on here is the Realtek 802.11ac cards, adapters, and so on did, for a very limited span (up until around 2013), provide drivers for 10.5, but what their documentation elided to mention was they wrote the drivers only for Intel Macs. I have an RTL8812BU USB dongle which I’d hoped to use on an iBook G4, but exhausted all avenues after discovering the “10.5” drivers were never written for PowerPC Macs or as Universal Binaries.
If you can track down one of the many 802.11n USB dongles, or you happen to have a PCI slot (not PCIe) free, there is an 802.11n tri-antenna (MIMO) card known as Edimax EW-7728ln which I’ve used for a couple of years on my G5. (I’ve since taken it out since I have the router next to the G5 and can use the LAN instead). But it does work pretty well for that application — probably more so than the reception and transmitting power of a USB dongle counterpart.
No, this isn’t an 802.11ac solution, but driver support for 802.11ac adapters on legacy gear is mostly confined these days to anything which at least is running Mavericks.
I see. I purchased some netgear wg111v2's for the pair. The netgear website still has the drivers so I think its all good now.
There is another one I can recommend... Look for TEW644UB - This is full 300mbps Wireless N adapter which I use on my PowerBook Titanium and it works quite well. I can send you the driver for it, but you can do an ebay search for it. Its the best USB Wireless device to get and the driver works with 10.4 and 10.5.
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