Help: Wireless PCMCIA cards in a PowerBook

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DavidSteward - 19 Nov 2004 20:20 GMT

I am trying to setup a Belkin PCMCIA card in a Firewire G3 PowerBook
with no luck. The card works fire in the previous model, i.e. the
non-firewire version of the G3 PowerBook. The computer refuses to
recognize the card and fails to register the base station.

Does the fact that the firewire model is Airport compatible mean I
can't use the Belkin PCMCIA card with it?

Any help or suggestions would be most welcome.

David

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Fred McKenzie - 20 Nov 2004 03:21 GMT

<< I am trying to setup a Belkin PCMCIA card in a Firewire G3 PowerBook
with no luck. The card works fire in the previous model, i.e. the
non-firewire version of the G3 PowerBook. The computer refuses to
recognize the card and fails to register the base station. >>

David-

I wonder if there isn't some other difference. For example, I have the Belkin
802.11g card, model F5D7010. In my (non-firewire) Wallstreet PB G3, the Belkin
card is recognized as if it were an Airport card when running OS 10.2.8.
However, it is not recognized when running OS 9.2.2

On the other hand, an Orinoco/Lucent "Silver" card is recognized under 9.2.2,
but not OS X.

Were you running the same OS version on the previous model?

Fred

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Andre Berger - 20 Nov 2004 08:20 GMT

* Fred McKenzie <fmmck@aol.communicate>, 2004-11-20 08:49 +0100:
[...]

> On the other hand, an Orinoco/Lucent "Silver" card is recognized under 9.2.2,
> but not OS X.

That's WEIRD, as this card is used in the original (graphite) Apple
Base Station.

-Andre

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Clark Martin - 24 Nov 2004 02:36 GMT

> * Fred McKenzie <fmmck@aol.communicate>, 2004-11-20 08:49 +0100:
> [...]
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>
> -Andre

Why should it be weird? The Base Station runs neither OS X nor 9.x.

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DavidSteward - 20 Nov 2004 22:56 GMT

fmmck@aol.communicate (Fred McKenzie) wrote in message news:

> I wonder if there isn't some other difference. For example, I have the Belkin
> 802.11g card, model F5D7010. In my (non-firewire) Wallstreet PB G3, the Belkin
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>
> Fred

They are both using 10.3.6, with the Airport extreme Base station
using the latest version available.

I tried the Orinoco/Lucent "Silver" card in the firewire version and
it worked, however the System Profiler saw it as an ethernet cable
connection in en2. I have not tried it in the non-firewire G3
PowerBook.

David

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Fred McKenzie - 21 Nov 2004 17:29 GMT

<< I tried the Orinoco/Lucent "Silver" card in the firewire version and
it worked, however the System Profiler saw it as an ethernet cable
connection in en2. I have not tried it in the non-firewire G3
PowerBook. >>

David-

My "Silver" card was not recognized by 10.2.8 until I installed a driver from
http://wirelessdriver.sourceforge.net/. I can't install 10.3 on that machine,
so don't know if the card would work without the Sourceforge driver.

Fred

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Sally Shears - 21 Nov 2004 23:15 GMT

> << I tried the Orinoco/Lucent "Silver" card in the firewire version and
> it worked, however the System Profiler saw it as an ethernet cable
[quoted text clipped - 6 lines]
> http://wirelessdriver.sourceforge.net/. I can't install 10.3 on that machine,
> so don't know if the card would work without the Sourceforge driver.

David -

Goggle around a bit at http://news.google.com for cards that work with
Apple's airport software. The Sonnet Aria card works perfectly, just
plug and play. If you go with a card that is not supported by Apple's
software, and if you can live with 802.11b, then I like the driver from
IOXPERTS, http://www.ioxperts.com

-- Sally

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DavidSteward - 22 Nov 2004 09:37 GMT

The Belkin 11g card works fine in the non-firewire G3 PowerBook
without any additional drivers.
It won't work in a firewire G3 PowerBook. They are both using 10.3.6
and trying to access the same airport extreme network.

The Orinoco 11b card works in the firewire G3 Powerbook with the
drivers from Sourceforge, I don't need to try it in the other G3 as I
want the network to use 11g.

My main question is "Why should the Belkin PCMCIA card work fine in
the non-firewire G£ PowerBook and fail in the firewire G3?" The
firewire version has an internal airport slot which is empty, could
this have any effect?

I could fit an original airport card but the are expensive on eBay UK
and I would only get 11b standard.

Thanks for the previous replies.

David

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Help: Wireless PCMCIA cards in a PowerBook