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Add 802.11g wireless networking to older PowerBooks
Authored by: elpelso on Nov 23, '05 04:49:41AM

I tried something similar on an even older model. I still used a PowerBook G3 300 MHz (the Wall Street model), with no USB or Firewire. It has 192 Mb, which is the Apple-specified max, although I have read this can go to 512 Mb. Don't see the need for the expense, though. Anyway, I managed to install Jaguar on it, and it runs fine, not the fastest, but hey the machine was born in 1998. Then, I was travelling to the USA and wanted to try wireless. I read a few things on the internet, went to a computer store that was knowledgeable, and had a return policy worth its salt, and bought an AeroCard Extreme from MacSense (model WPE-800). I plugged it into one of the 2 PCMCIA slots, and upon start-up, my old laptop was wireless, g-standard and everything. Worked like a charm. Only thing that was a serious no-no, was ejecting the card while the system was running. Kernel panic would result. Shutting down, and then removing the card, was ofcourse problem-free. So, at a stroke my 1998 PowerBook bettered my desk-iMac G4 which can only use the b-standard according to Apple. Apple machines are so ahead of their time, it's amazing... On a related note, I've never tried using a PCMCIA FireWire card, but I would suspect it would work too...



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