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Add 802.11g wireless networking to older PowerBooks
Well I just recently learned that indeed an PC 802.11g shows up as another airport card, and while this is a good news, it creates a bit of headache which so far I coudn't overcome. The problem is when you do have already an airport card built in. It seems that the system is confused which is which, you can't rename either the built in or the added one, they are both airport, period. And then you can't disable it either, because if you disable one, the other one disables too. You can overcome this by going to terminal with ifconfig but as soon as you open the network preferences the confusion starts again. You also can't easily configure them as the configuration overwrites when you try to configure the second instance of the airport...
Add 802.11g wireless networking to older PowerBooks
I ran into the same problem with my Pismo and an MS Broadcom-based PC card for my Pismo. Ultimately, the only fix is to take out (or at least disconnect) either the built-in Airport card or to take out the PC card you just installed. I chose to disconnect my built-in Airport 802.11b card in favor of the the MS 802.11g PC card. I haven't had a problem since disconnecting the built-in card.
Add 802.11g wireless networking to older PowerBooks
Here is a useful link to a table that has various adaptors along with an indication as to whether the 802.11g adaptor has the broadcom chipset or not:
Add 802.11g wireless networking to older PowerBooks
I don't know about renaming it, but you can disable the internal Airport, either on-demand or internally, by either kextunloading or disabling the kernel extension for the plain old Airport. I was doing this for quite some time on my TiBook and a Broadcom Cardbus card.
Add 802.11g wireless networking to older PowerBooks
There are a few problems with this approach:
Add 802.11g wireless networking to older PowerBooks
FWIW, you need to unload the Airport driver _before_ you insert the PCCard. If you see them both loaded, it's too late. |
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