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CONTACTS:       DATE:   SUBJECT:	Julie Montez Julie_Montez at OrangeWare.com 714-998-9003 x111   January 21, 2004   OrangeWare announces Macintosh Wireless Driver
Anaheim, CA - Today, OrangeWare announced a Macintosh driver for wireless “802.11a/b/g” cards using the Atheros chipset.   For several years now, Apple® users have chafed at the issue that most wireless cards (CardBus and PCI) don’t work with Apple’s computers.  Why is that?  It’s because the Apple® client driver only works with the Broadcom chipset.  Recently, OrangeWare developed a Mac OS X Wireless Driver for the 3Com wireless line of cards which use the Atheros chip, and licensed the driver to 3Com.  As a result, the Atheros based 3Com cards are now compatible with Macintosh.  This Macintosh compatibility is offered by 3Com at no charge to its users.    OrangeWare’s announcement broadens the driver availability to all users of Atheros based wireless cards.  They include D-Link, Netgear, Aztec, Elecom, Fujitsu, IBM, Linksys, NEC, Samsung and Sony.  All their current wireless offerings listed at the bottom can use the new OrangeWare Macintosh Wireless Driver.  This means that the lonely Mac user can now link up with Mac and PC access points by using significantly lower cost wireless cards instead of expensive Airport cards.  An Airport extreme card costs $99.00, whereas the D-Link card costs as little as $38.00.    Another unique benefit of this driver is for the Mac users who need to connect to PC based “802.11a” wireless access points.  OrangeWare’s driver is the only solution available to Mac Users -- nothing else works.     The Macintosh OS X wireless driver is available to users as a free trial download from www.orangeware.com.  If users are satisfied, a permanent license is available from the same source for only $15.00.  For more information, go to www.orangeware.com or e-mail