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I'm trying (and failing) to use a third party wifi card with my powerbook, and seem to be failing. Could somebody fill me on in what I'm supposed to be doing?

I have a the 200mw Engenius internal antenna wifi card (available from surfandsip.com for $85).

I'm trying to run it on a powerbook G4 500. I'm running 10.2. I have downloaded two different third party drivers: one from ioxperts.com and another from sourceforge.net.

The sourceforge.net driver doesn't recognise the card whatsoever. The ioxperts driver sees there is a card present - it shows me the signal strength and available transfer speed.

Network in System Preferences sees that there is a new network port, and allows me to decide if I want to connect via dchp, ppp, have appletalk on or off, etc. Trying to connect via internet connect fails, which I am told is to be expected.

My landlord offers free wifi access, and am trying to connect in my apartment. (I know the wifi is up and running, as I have used a friends Wintel machine in the apartment.) The landlord runs everything with Microsoft access points run from windows machines. It is an open network - no log in needed, no encryption, no nothing.

This is my first attempt at installing a wifi device of any kind.

Thanks in advance for your help!