Keyspan USB Adapter contains the drivers for the following adaptors:

Twin Serial Adapter (models USA-28X, USA-28XA and USA-28XB)
PDA Adapter (models USA-19 and USA-19Qi)
High Speed Serial Adapter (models USA-19W and USA-19QW)
USA-18X Serial Adapter
USA-28 USB Serial Adapter
USA-49W 4-port Serial Adapter (models USA-49W, USA-49WLC, USA-4E230)
USA-19H USB Serial Adapter (models USA-19Hs and USA-19Hp)
serial port in MPR-112 Mobile Port Replicator.

Whats New in This Release:

· Universal Binary.

Drivers for MacWireless USB Adapter.

Whats New in This Release:

· Improved scanning and power management interfaces
· Fixed WEP key case-sensitivy bug
· Fixed bug that prevented the use of any WEP key index besides #1

Linksys WRT54GS v2 router Firmware updater.

Instructions :

Before you start, be sure you are using a PC that is connected to the WRT54GS via a wired (Ethernet) connection.

2) Open your web browser (e.g., Internet Explorer, Netscape, etc.)

3) In the Address bar, type in the IP address of your router. The default IP address is 192.168.1.1.

4) Leave the username blank and enter your password. The default password is "admin", all lower case.

5) Click on the Administration tab.

6) Click on Firmware Upgrade.

7) Browse for the firmware file that you have just extracted. The file name should end in .rmt

8) Click the Upgrade button.

9) The router will begin its upgrade routine. Do not power off or unplug the router until the process is completed. This process may take up to 5 minutes to complete.
Whats New in This Release:

· Resolves issue with setup wizard
· Updated wireless security tab
· Resolves issue with port based QoS.

iStat wireless is a simple widget to monitor wireless network strength with a striking design and two different views.

Switching between the simple and advanced views is merely a matter of clicking on the dials centre.

iStat wireless is a tool available now for both PC and Mac Yahoo! Widget Engine users.
Note: Interface varies between platforms.

Although USB to Ethernet adaptors are cheap and plentiful, Mac OS X drivers are not.

USB-to-Ethernet offers you USB to Ethernet Adaptor Drivers.
There are two basic catagories of USB-To-Ethernet adaptors:
· USB 1.1 devices that use a Pegasus driver.
· USB 2.0 devices that use a AX8817x driver (or its successor, the AX88772).


Each disk image includes an installer for Panther or Tiger, and a "src" folder containing the corresponding xCode projects.

Installation

Download and mount the appropriate driver disk image listed above, run the corresponding installer for Panther or Tiger, and then restart your system as suggested. The Installer will ask you to authenticate so it can place the corresponding driver in "/System/Library/Extensions/" with the correct file permisions to load as a kernel extension.

Next, plug-in your Ethernet adaptor with a live Ethernet cable attached. When you open the Network Preferences panel, it should inform you that a new port has appeared and ask if you want to enable it. Enable the new port and apply your network settings. Thats it.

Each driver is pre-configured to recognize a handfull of common devices. If your device does not appear to be recognized by the driver, you might have to add it to the Info.plist file, which is located inside the USBPegasusEthernet.kext or USBAx8817x.kext directory. You can use the System Profiler or USBProber tool to find the corresponding Product ID and Vendor ID.

To uninstall the driver, make sure any USB adaptors are disconnected, and then drag the corresponding driver in /System/Library/Extensions/ USBPegaususEthernet.kext or USBAx8817x.kext to the trash. You may need to authenticate that you have administrator privileges.

USB 1.1 Performance

The Pegasus chipset provides a USB 1.1 compatible implementation which could be a concern for some users. USB 1.1 runs at 1.5 Mbps (low speed) or 12 Mbps (full speed). For best performance, its important to isolate any low speed devices on a separate bus. Mice and keyboards often run at low speed.

Using the Link Rate tool in IPNetMonitorX, I measured the link rate to another device on my LAN as 6 Mbps. The built-in Ethernet on my 12" PBG4 reported 44 Mpbs. When I measured the link rate to the next hop router through my cable modem, it reported 1 mbps. It didnt make any difference whether I used Ethernet built-in or the USB-To-Ethernet adaptor. Finally, I downloaded a 2.2 MB file to compare the throughput using the Monitor tool.

Both downloads took 5 seconds, but Ethernet built-in reached a peak rate of 589 KBps versus 579 kBps. Repeating the experiment several times produced similar results. Ethernet built-in might be 1-2% faster, but performance was clearly limited by the speed of my cable modem (Your Mileage May Vary).

USB 2.0 Performance

The AX8817x chip set provides a USB 2.0 compatible implementation which runs at up to 480 Mbps (high speed), so it should be possible to keep up with 100 Mbps fast ethernet as long as there are no other slower devices on the same bus. To test this I copied a 64.8 MB music file to my PBG4 laptop connected through a LinkSys USB200M Ethernet Adaptor (en3) and compared this to the same file transfer using Built-in Ethernet (en0).

Both transfers reached 10 MBps (80-90 Mbps) and took about 10 seconds. I repeated the test in the other direction.

While the USB-To-Ethernet adaptor was slightly slower, at 80 Mbps there was little noticeable difference. Files moved quickly from one system to another via 100 Mbps fast Ethernet. Copying the same file using AirPort wireless took 50-90 seconds.

Stability

While other USB-To-Ethernet drivers are reported to be buggy, I havent encountered any stability problems to date. The adaptor turns off when the computer goes to sleep and comes back on when the computer awakes. It does not support "Wake On LAN" at this time.

Wrap Up

This USB-To-Ethernet Adaptor combination could be an attractive solution for a Mac Mini, or old iBook used as an Internet gateway or server. Im particularly fond of using old laptops as servers since they are compact, quiet, use little energy, and include their own battery backup.

Wireless Grapher is a Dashboard widget that graphs the wireless connection of your Airport or Airport Extreme card.

Features the ability to update in the background and to control how quick samples are taken.

Whats New in This Release:

· Fixed bug so wireless channel is now displayed correctly.

MRJ Adapter is, partially, a wrapper around some APIs provided by Apple and which are built into their various virtual machines. However, they have changed over time and some APIs were not always available, so MRJ Adapter provides a consistent API for the developer wanting to target the Mac.

MRJ Adapter is an easier path for developers because it is easier to learn, leveraging concepts they already know, such as action listeners to handle menu items. It also shields the developer from the problems associated with compiling their code on other platforms when the APIs they need only exist on the Mac.

MRJ Adapter incorporates a wealth of knowledge and little-known tricks about Apples virtual machines that no developer should be expected to know off-hand, especially if they come from other platforms. Things like how to bring up a folder chooser dialog, or how to open a document with the application that created it are addressed by MRJ Adapter.

MRJ Adapter implements many things the Apple APIs dont address, such as automatic handling of all-inclusive menu bars, assignment of a menu bar to be shown when no frame is visible, and more.

The WWAN Support Update v1.0 provides SW support for the following WWAN products:

Available on the Cingular network:
· Novatel Merlin XU870 ExpressCard (HSDPA)

Available on the Sprint network:
· Novatel Wireless Merlin EX720 Express Card (EVDO Rev. A)
· Novatel Wireless Ovation U720 USB Modem (USB Adapter, EVDO Rev. A)

Available on the Verizon network:
· Novatel XV620 ExpressCard (EVDO Rev. 0)
· Novatel V740 ExpressCard (EVDO Rev. A)
· Novatel Wireless Ovation U720 (USB Adapter, EVDO Rev. A)

Sleep USB is designed for use with PC card-based USB adapters for PowerBooks. Current USB card driver software (v1.2) has a bug causing the system to freeze when waking up from sleep if the USB card is installed.

This script will attempt to quit out of any applications running from non-startup drives, eject these drives, and then eject the USB card before putting the system to sleep.

The term "MRJ", or Macintosh Runtime for Java, used to be the name of Apples Java virtual machine in the days of classic Mac OS. When Mac OS X came along, the use of the name faded slowly until Apples Java 1.4 virtual machine came to life, which completely dropped any reference to the name. Maybe I should drop the reference as well for MRJ Adapter, but until I do, lets make it clear that MRJ Adapter is a library that allows your code to work with any and all versions of Apples Java virtual machine, from the oldest to the latest and greatest.

MRJ Adapter is partially a wrapper around some APIs provided by Apple and which are built into their various virtual machines. However, they have changed over time and some APIs were not always available, so MRJ Adapter provides a consistent API for the developer wanting to target the Mac.

MRJ Adapter is an easier path for developers because it is easier to learn, leveraging concepts they already know, such as action listeners to handle menu items. It also shields the developer from the problems associated with compiling their code on other platforms when the APIs they need only exist on the Mac.

MRJ Adapter incorporates a wealth of knowledge and little-known tricks about Apples virtual machines that no developer should be expected to know off-hand, especially if they come from other platforms. Things like how to bring up a folder chooser dialog, or how to open a document with the application that created it are addressed by MRJ Adapter.

MRJ Adapter implements many things the Apple APIs dont address, such as automatic handling of all-inclusive menu bars, assignment of a menu bar to be shown when no frame is visible, and more.

I wrote this library because I needed this functionality in my work and I found that it would be of interest to many other developers.

Here are some key features of "MRJ Adapter":

Unified APIs & Functionality
· Get and set file types and creator codes.
· Find special folders defined by the OS.
· Find applications by creator code.
· Find resource files in application bundles.
· Open URLs in the users favorite browser.
· Handle the OS-provided About, Preferences and Quit menu items.
· Enable and disable the Preferences menu item.
· Handle the Apple events Open Application, Reopen Application, Quit Application, Open Document, and Print Document.

MRJ Adapter Specific Additions
· Handle the OS-provided Preferences menu item on MRJ 3.0 and MRJ 3.1 (Java 1.3.1 on Mac OS X). This was only introduced by Apple in MRJ 3.2.
· Handle the Reopen Application event on MRJ 2.x and 3.x. This was only introduced by Apple in MRJ 4.3.
· Enable and disable the Preferences menu item in VMs prior to Java 1.4.1. This was missing before 1.4.1.
· Find applications in MRJ 3.0 and up (Java 1.3.1 and up). This was dropped by Apple starting with MRJ 3.0.
· Open URLs in the users favorite browser in VMs prior to MRJ 2.2. This was missing before MRJ 2.2.
· Find out whether the About, Preferences and Quit menu items are provided by the OS or not on the current platform. This was different on classic Mac OS than it is on Mac OS X, is never the case on other platforms, and there is no method in the Apple APIs to discover this.
· Multiple listeners for all Mac-specific events. The Apple APIs lacked this before MRJ 4.1 (Java 1.4.1).
· Handling of all Mac-specific events via familiar MenuItems, JMenuItems, ActionEvents, ActionListeners and Actions. The Apple APIs use Mac-specific events and listeners.
· Find out whether Swing is currently using the screen menu bar or not. This can be true or false depending on the system properties set, and on the Swing L&F currently in use, and there is no method in the Apple classes to discover this.
· Set a menu bar to be shown when no frame is visible. This is a normal state for a Mac application and Java has no built-in facility to do this, nor does Apple provide any API for it.
· Get the name of the startup disk. This has always been missing from the Apple APIs.
· Bring up a dialog for choosing a folder. There was a way to do this in the Apple VMs prior to 1.4.1, but it was undocumented.
· Bring up a dialog for choosing an application on disk. A convenience that makes use of the working FilenameFilter on the Mac, and which also makes sure bundles are not traversable.
· Launch applications as well as open documents, either by the application that created them or by one of your choice, all in a way that isolates your code from highly platform dependant mechanisms. This is missing in the Apple APIs.
· Retrieve file types and creator codes from Mac bundles stored on other platforms.
· Find out if the underlying platform implements Apples JDirect technology, and if so, which version of it.
· Create menu bars that are automatically all-inclusive on Mac OS while remaining distinct to each frame on other platforms. There is nothing built into Java to do this, and Apple never provided a solution for it.
· Use actions with JMenuItems in Swing 1.1 as well as AWT MenuItems. This functionality was introduced by Sun in Swing in Java 1.2, and AWT doesnt support actions.
· Have menus automatically disable themselves when all their items become disabled. Conversely, have menus enable themselves when any item becomes enabled.
· Show a standard About box similar to the one provided by the Cocoa framework on Mac OS X, while being cross-platform.
· Open the resource fork of a file.

Other Features
· Supports Java 1.1 and up on all platforms, starting with MRJ 1.5 (Java 1.1) on classic Mac OS all the way through JDK 1.4.2 on Mac OS X.
· Supports both AWT and Swing.
· Easy compilation on other platforms. If you link with MRJAdapter.jar, there is no need for stubs of any kind. It will just work, on any platform.
· Stubs provided for compilation of MRJ Adapter on platforms other than the Mac. This is just for compiling, and the stubs dont need to be included in the resulting JAR file.


Whats New in This Release:

· Changed from the LGPL license to the Artistic License.
· Removed caching of the result of MRJAdapter.isSwingUsingScreenMenuBar() so that it works even with runtime changes of the L&F.
· Added explicit support for the excellent Quaqua.

This is a driver for the USB WLAN-Sticks, that based on ZydasZD1211(B) Chipset.

Models :

3COM 3CRUSB10075
AOpen 802.11g WL54
iNexQ UR055g
Sitecom WL-113
Telegent TG54USB
TwinMOS G240
Yakumo QuickWLAN
Airlink+ AWLL3025
Zyxel ZyAIR G-220
X-Micro XWL-11GUZX
Edimax EW-7317UG
Safecom SWLU-5400
Longshine LCS-8131G
Planet WL-U356
Sweex wireless 54MB
Acer WLAN-G-US1
Trendnet TEW-424UB
DrayTek Vigor 550
Asus WL-159g
Fiberline WL-410u.

Whats New in This Release:

Known issue:
· Release Note - Driver:
· Added one supported VID/PID pair into ZD1211B driver.
· 2. Add support of UW2453 RF chip type.
· Utility: N/A Known issue:
For Intel-based system:
· After Restart Mac system, the wireless Adapter can NOT work any more.
· After wake up from sleep, the wireless Adapter can NOT work any more.
· The driver will hang if wireless Adapter can t associated to an AP successfully in a short time.
For PPC-based system:
· The driver will hang if unplug the wireless adapter while it is doing site survey work. (i.e. if you unplug the card before it establish a connection successfully, the driver is easy to hang).

Save money, avoid Airport cards!
The Macintosh Wireless Driver from OrangeWare allows Mac OS X users, version 10.2 and newer, to use most 802.11a/b/g desktop and laptop cards with an Apple Airport access point, as well as any PC orientated access point.

In fact, it is the ONLY Mac driver to allow Macs to connect to 802.11?a? networks.

Please visit http://www.orangeware.com/endusers/wirelessformac.html for a list of known compatible cards.

Limitations:

· This is a trial driver with 10 minutes of evaluation time; at the end of the 10 minute evaluation time you will be provided a means to purchase the full version.


Whats New in This Release:

· Support for the Atheros 2414 chip.

Kensington PilotBoard Wireless Desktop provides a disk image archive of the full version of Kensington PilotBoard Wireless Desktop Software for Mac OS X (including Panther).

This version supports the following Kensington PilotBoard products:
K64382 PilotBoard Mac Wireless Desktop
K64379 Kensington Wireless Pilotboard Desktop

The Wireless Keyboard and Mouse Firmware Updates improve Apple Wireless Keyboard and Mouse performance and reliability.

When this Update package is downloaded it will install the software updaters (listed below) for the Wireless Keyboard and Mouse in the Applications/Utilities folder. Double click each installer and follow the on screen directions.