eMac on a PC wireless network

[Joe Potato]

Howdy,

My daughter's college roommates are all PC users. They have a wireless
network and my daughter wants to join the network with her eMac.

Should she be getting an Airport or Airport Extreme wireless network
card?

Are there PC wireless cards that work just as well?

Will she have any problems joining the PC network?

Thanks

[Chong Woo Paig]

Joe Potato wrote:

> Should she be getting an Airport or Airport Extreme wireless network
> card?

That depends on the specific eMac model your daughter has. The newer
models (released less than a year ago?) takes an Airport Extreme card.
The older ones a standard Airport card.

> Are there PC wireless cards that work just as well?

A number of cards are compatible, but you can fit neither PCMCIA nor PCI
cards in an eMac!

>
> Will she have any problems joining the PC network?

There should be no problem, unless the PC network uses 802.11a equipment
or WPA encryption (which Apple doesn't support yet).

>
> Thanks

you're welcome. ;)

Chong Woo.

[WildGeek]

Just a quick question for clarification:
I'm working with something of the same situation. I have an eMac running Mac OS X (10.1.4), 256 MB memory and a PowerPC G4 processor; Is this one of the "older" models that needs the standard Airport card?