I have a genuine mac laptop that I share with my wife, and have been easily been able to use airdrop to move files between my desktop and the laptop.Ģ. It is easy to enable Airport on ethernet connected devices and I don't think there should be any real compatibility issues, at least on the side you install the bridge solution (several links including this one give you the one line terminal command you need. I think there are several pluses to the approach of using a wireless bridge (or "Client + AP" as the case may be):ġ. Note that Tenda refers to the mode I used as "Client + AP" mode. I set it up on an old Windoze laptop, connected it to my new hackintosh with ethernet, and voila, I had fast, fast internet. Then I had the wireless bridge idea, and went to Microcenter to buy literally the cheapest thing that could act as a wireless bridge *out of the box* (I did not want to reflash a new router with dd-wrt - while I have done this in the past, I am completely fed up with fiddling for the time being). I even tried to buy a cheap broadcom mini-pci board and fitting it to a pci-e adapter (a la the "real airport card" threads), but ended up having to send the adapter back as the little fiddly antenna connector things arrived pre-broken from Amazon. I literally spent 3x as much time fiddling with the box of old USB wireless adapters (two of which I actually had working in Snow Leopard in the past) as I did building my system! With the help of MultiB and reading this board, I built a a very stable and fast machine (i7 2600k clocked to 4GHz based on a Z68X-UD3H-B3 in a lovely white H2 classic box -very sweet) but I could not for the life of me get the wireless to work. I very much agree with the main subject of this thread. Building a CustoMac Hackintosh: Buyer's Guide
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