TRENDnet's TBW-103UB WiFi and Bluetooth dongle
By Evan Blass 
posted January 24th 2006 9:00PM
posted January 24th 2006 9:00PM
For those of you with old school laptops jonesing to get
your wireless-on, TRENDnet's TBW-103UB contains a double-dose of wireless goodness for you. The flash drive-sized dongle
sports both 802.11g and Bluetooth adapters, so you can get online anywhere, via a WiFi hotspot or a DUN connection to a
cellphone. Contains an adjustable antenna for those annoying deadspots, and features a three-year warranty for
pretending it's broken when you want to step up to mobile WiMax. The double-duty dongle is available immediately for
around $70.
It's Macintosh compatible.
The WIFI Works good in Ubuntu 6.06, haven't tried BT yet.
http://www.trendnet.com/support/os_compatibility.htm
tells you all the compat questions.
Cmon guys it wasn't that hard. It was on their site.
What do you have to have as a driver to run it on a Macintosh?
Cool stuff. I liked bluetooth ever since it came out. But honestly its always been buggy for me at best and there were times when it flat out refused to work.
This is awesome. I look at it as a great deal being two-in-one.
ONe simple question:
Is it Macintosh compatible???
One more thing to be added: flash memory. Bluetooth + 802.11g + 2gb = best usb device ever invented since 16mb thumbdrive, killer for freqeunt switchers of laptop/desktop
Trendnet makes some pretty good stuff. I have the TEW-424UB v2 802.11G USB dongle and it works great I picked it up online for $15 after $10 rebate.
(WinXP Pro)
If it is compatible with Linux (Debain in particular...) i'd be all over it! (BTW, if they could add 2GB of flash memory and still keep it at the same price, you would be able to buy a REAL 8GB nano for $200!)
Since you say its capacle of connecting to a cellpohne via BT for DUN accesss.. why not list the cost of using your BT phone as a DUN modem?
Its expensive, unless of course you are on T-Mobile.
hehe ... he said dongle ...
Looks like it's just 2000 and XP. No Mac. :(
This looks uncannily like a rebranded version of Suncore's BlueWiFly device. I can confirm that both bluetooth and wifi functions of the bluewifly work perfectly under Linux.