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I purchased an old Mac Pro to use as a home server. It has no WiFi card.
I have a generic Wireless N USB dongle. I got it a long time ago and it's not branded. Windows installs the drivers automatically so I never put much thought into it.
System report in OSX tells me the below...
802.11n WLAN Adapter:
Product ID: 0x8176
Vendor ID: 0x0bda (Realtek Semiconductor Corp.)
Version: 2.00
Serial Number: 00e04c000001
Speed: Up to 480 Mb/sec
Manufacturer: 802.11n WLAN Adapter
Location ID: 0xfd500000 / 4
Current Available (mA): 500
Current Required (mA): 500
What chances do I have of getting it running? It's not showing as a network in the Network settings.
Edit:
I found the driver disk and it has drivers up to 10.6. Also I found a post here which seems to say that it has worked on Lion. Copied below...
I use an Realtek based noname USB WIFI Stick:
802.11n WLAN Adapter:
BSD-Name: en1
Produkt-ID: 0x8176 (RTL8188CUS chip)
Hersteller-ID: 0x0bda (Realtek Semiconductor Corp.)
Version: 2,00
Seriennummer: 00e04c000001
Geschwindigkeit: Bis zu 480 MBit/s
Hersteller: Realtek
The realtek drivers (comes with an Wifi Util that runs on startup) works with Lion 64 Bit 10.7.2 C40.
Realtec supports OS X good (fast updates).
Its very unlikely you will get it to work since you don't have a OS X driver for it. – Ramhound – 2014-12-03T23:52:57.890
Could I try a few other OSX realtek drivers? Or am I wasting my time? – square_eyes – 2014-12-03T23:58:10.140
Searching Realtek's Downloads Search shows there isn't anything newer than 10.8 supported. At the very least (and if the driver functioned) it would require you disable kext signature verification at boot time.
– user187561 – 2014-12-04T01:28:50.173OK doesn't look good then. For what it's worth I actually just found the driver disk in a box. It looks like it's only got windows drivers though. Oh no, it's got some Mac files in here
CardbusPCIWireless-10.3,10.4, 10.5 and 10.6
. – square_eyes – 2014-12-04T01:31:47.903