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Happy first day of spring. It's snowing here actually, after perfect spring weather all week, but I digress. As I stated below, I installed and got my OSx86 online with the intention of getting the iPhone 3.0 SDK up and running by now. Before I get into 3.0 SDK, let me talk about getting wireless working. It's quite funny I think.

The spare/HTPC computer I installed OSx86 when booting into Windows uses a Netgear WG121 usb wireless adapter, which didn't work out of the box, so I tried Netgear for Mac driver, no go. I tried scouring the OSx86 forums, a few people tried and couldn't get it working. So I was screwed, then I realized I had an old Datel WiFi Link that I was going to sell. It's a USB wireless device that can do both, act as a receiver or an access point. I used it for a while on my wired computer to broadcast a wireless signal for my Wii/PSP/DS online play, but we now have a decent router in my house so I no longer needed it, so randomly searched OSx86 forums for info on the detail thing, and what do you know, it works! I had to get this app called "WLan Setup" because it doesn't work with Apple's airport software, so I added my SSID/WEP/etc in this WLan program which is set to auto start and OS X thinks its a wired connection. So hey it works for the time being.

Next issue, figure with the iPhone 3.0 revealing Apple would unleash the new SDK. I was half right, it is available, but not for free, for $100. So I got the SDK for 2.0 installed and in order to combat this $100 cost, I found a way to earn some extra money via http://www.CrossLoop.com/StephenMilone. Check the sidebar for more info.