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Mac Forum / Country Specific / UK Mac Group / May 2008Wifi in iBooks
My sister has an iBook of currently-unknown model, and happened to mention that it isn't much use in her current student digs due to not having wifi. Are wifiless iBokos generally able to be upgraded to wifi? If yes, is there a standard Airport card that'll work in any, or do I have to talk her into working out exactly which model she has? Cheers - Jaimie  Signature"Every Little Thing She Does Is Sufficiently Advanced Technology" > My sister has an iBook of currently-unknown model, and happened to > mention that it isn't much use in her current student digs due to not [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > > Cheers - Jaimie I'm sure someone will confirm, but I believe the iBooks all take the same card. The one you need is the original Apple Airport Card (not Airport Extreme), which only supports 802.11b so it won't be impressive in terms of speed, but good enough for most needs in an iBook. I have one in my old iBook Clamshell. To install you just have to remove the keyboard to access the slot it sits in, and attach the antenna cable. All iBooks should already contain the antenna. Jason. > > My sister has an iBook of currently-unknown model, and happened to > > mention that it isn't much use in her current student digs due to not [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > the keyboard to access the slot it sits in, and attach the antenna > cable. All iBooks should already contain the antenna. G3 iBooks take the old 802.11b card G4 iBooks take the Airport Extreme card, fittings pretty much similar to the G3s. (Late spec G4s take a different board on the logic board but those ones come from the factory with it fitted as standard anyway so it shouldn't be one of those.) SignatureJon B Above email address IS valid. <http://www.bramley-computers.co.uk/> Apple Laptop Repairs. > G3 iBooks take the old 802.11b card > [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > come from the factory with it fitted as standard anyway so it shouldn't > be one of those.) I stand corrected. In that case Jaimie will definitely need to find out which iBook model his sister has before buying a card. Jason. > I'm sure someone will confirm, but I believe the iBooks all take the > same card. The one you need is the original Apple Airport Card (not > Airport Extreme), which only supports 802.11b so it won't be impressive > in terms of speed, but good enough for most needs in an iBook. As far as I recall, none of the G3 iBooks came with an Airport card installed, but they all take the original, slower 802.11b cards. Some of the later G4 iBooks had an Airport Extreme (802.11g) card already installed. Those that didn't, could be upgraded with one, so in short... G3 = 802.11b G4 = 802.11g SignatureCheers Martin >> My sister has an iBook of currently-unknown model, and happened to >> mention that it isn't much use in her current student digs due to not [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] >the keyboard to access the slot it sits in, and attach the antenna >cable. All iBooks should already contain the antenna. Excellent - I do hope you're right! Searching for "apple airport 802.11b" on eBay shows that they're compatible with "all iBooks except G4" - do the G4s take Extremes? Cheers - Jaimie SignatureI like my coffee how I like my women... but I can't get coffee that's independent, intelligent and has a career of its own. - Eric Jarvis, urs > Excellent - I do hope you're right! Searching for "apple airport > 802.11b" on eBay shows that they're compatible with "all iBooks except > G4" - do the G4s take Extremes? > > Cheers - Jaimie As you will have probably gathered by now, I was wrong! I thought the Airport Extreme was a more recent development than the G4 iBooks. In that case you will definitely need to work out which model your sister has. Should be simple enough as selecting 'About This Mac' from the Apple Menu should show whether it is a G3 or G4. Jason. >> Excellent - I do hope you're right! Searching for "apple airport >> 802.11b" on eBay shows that they're compatible with "all iBooks except [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] >As you will have probably gathered by now, I was wrong! I thought the >Airport Extreme was a more recent development than the G4 iBooks. Indeedy. Mind you, either way it's good news: they all have sockets and aerials for a wifi card of some sort, and that's the main thing. >In that case you will definitely need to work out which model your >sister has. Should be simple enough as selecting 'About This Mac' from >the Apple Menu should show whether it is a G3 or G4. Yep. Actually, I don't even know if she's running OSX on it - is a random iBoko likely to be running OS9? If so, where would she find some clue as to the G3/G4ness of it? Cheers - Jaimie Signature220 mail.sessile.org ESMTP Sendmail 8.13.4 ICBM ENABLED ; Wed, 23 Jun 2005 15:04:40 GMT HELO spammers.org 250 mail.sessile.org MAIL FROM:<scumball@spammers.org> 550 you have four minutes to say goodbye to your family >>> Excellent - I do hope you're right! Searching for "apple airport >>> 802.11b" on eBay shows that they're compatible with "all iBooks except [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > Yep. Actually, I don't even know if she's running OSX on it - is a > random iBoko likely to be running OS9? Unlikely, but possible (my first one was a discounted/end-of-line original IceBook from JL - it came only with OS9). If so, where would she find > some clue as to the G3/G4ness of it? 'About This Mac' :-) > Cheers - Jaimie Cheers ... Mark > >> Excellent - I do hope you're right! Searching for "apple airport > >> 802.11b" on eBay shows that they're compatible with "all iBooks except [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > random iBoko likely to be running OS9? If so, where would she find > some clue as to the G3/G4ness of it? Only the G3s will run os9. If it is a coloured iBook it's an old clamshell, so G3 & 802.11b, G3 snow iBooks just say iBook under the screen, G4 iBooks say 'iBook G4' under the screen and have a grey not opaque keyboard. SignatureJon B Above email address IS valid. <http://www.bramley-computers.co.uk/> Apple Laptop Repairs. >If it is a coloured iBook it's an old clamshell, so G3 & 802.11b, G3 >snow iBooks just say iBook under the screen, G4 iBooks say 'iBook G4' >under the screen and have a grey not opaque keyboard. Oh, that's excellent, thanks - I'll just get her to tell me what's written under the screen. All I know so far is that it's white, so it could be either. Cheers - Jaimie Signature"How do you like your blue-eyed boy now, Mr Death?" - e e cummings/Tom Baker |
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