Don't bother. Really.Linksys has not come out with any CIT200 drivers for the Mac. And I have not seen anything saying that this will actually happen. No beta drivers. Nuttin.
I also have not seen anything about an open source project "efforting" to produce a driver. God bless the open source community - I can't besmirch them for what hey are NOT doing - they give so damn much as it is.
So I, your humble writer, thinks "Hmmmm - Parallels." It would not really be a good solution, but hey, why not. (Parallels is awesome, by the way. The following is not to reflect poorly on the part of Parallels - but, hey, Linksys, come on!)
I have the latest stable version (1970) of Parallels - it hates USB passionately, with fervor - I could not transfer any USB device other than Mac mounted drive keys to the work with a Windows 2000 virtual machine. And honestly I do not care too. Parallels is fine and should not have to bend to my geeky wants because Linksys will not release a driver for the Mac.
I then tried the current Parallels Beta, which I read can work with USB devices. Well, I was able to get the Windows VM to see it, but it only saw it as an "Unknown USB Device" - useless for the CIT200 Windows driver.
I am sure if you want to run it under Boot Camp, it will work - but it is a big "don't friggin bother" on a Mac under OS X. Sorry.
If you have any disagreements or have gotten it to work with a Mac directly or within Parallels, please leave a comment - I would love to be wrong about this.
2 comments:
Let me know if you ever get this figured out. It's almost incomprehensible that Linksys would still not have a set of Mac drivers for this product.
Sure. Seem like it would be a trivial idea to make it Mac compatible.
And, Bryan, checked out your blog - nice work. Good content.
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