Mac Forum / General / Networking / January 2005

I have been trying for ages to get a 5300cs running OS9.1 to connect to
my Airport graphite (802.11b) basestation.

I have beed trying a Lucent Orinoco Silver card that works fine on a
Lombard (OSX with the Ioexperts driver) although I also have a Farallon
Skyline 473 card and a Bufallo Airstation one.

I just cannot get the thing to recognise the card(s) with any of the
software I
have loaded.

Orinoco 6.0, 6.3 & 7.1 will all install but I have to eject the card as
it is not detected by the drivers and I can get no further - it isnt
available to select on
TCP/IP. Similar behaviour with the Ioexperts driver.

I cant even install the Skyline and Bufallo drivers - as soon as I try
and install it stops saying "Install the Skyline disk"  etc - meaning a
floppy.  if I copy the software onto a floppy - it isnt fooled telling
me this is not the original go away and find it !!

So...

Does anyone have a sure fire way of getting this machine onto an Airport
Network with one of these 3 cards.

Would it be easier with 8.6 installed ?

Thanks
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JohnB