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Add 802.11g wireless networking to older PowerBooks
Authored by: tidjj on Nov 23, '05 12:26:37PM

I do use a Belkin F5D7010 PCMCIA card in my 867Mhz G4 PowerBook Ti for almost two years (Jaguar then Tiger) without trouble.
It now operates in WPA (since Tiger) and with the last Tiger release, it hooks back the signal very quickly after a little sleep.
I never had any problem to warn eject or plug it, regardless the operating system running. No such caveat.



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Add 802.11g wireless networking to older PowerBooks
Authored by: withdave on Nov 23, '05 11:07:09PM

I have a Pismo G3 Powerbook and today data-mined the net to see how to add wireless capability. Uncovered a good lead on cards to support older Apple machines: http://home.earthlink.net/~metaphyzx/Wireless.htm

Went to Fry's with a list of all the PCMCIA/Cardbus cards listed on that page as usable with the built-in Mac OS X Airport driver. Bought a Belkin F5D7010 PCMCIA card for $34. (Store was closing so no time to look for the cheapest. At that price it was a bargain anyway compared to other cards I saw on the net.) Took it home, plugged it in and could turn on Airport and use it immediately. Tiger treated it as a built-in Airport card, even driving the power and tansmit-receive lights you can watch on the card end.

My computers are all near my Airport Extreme so I'm not concerned about range and have no data points on that aspect.



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