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Mac Forum / General / Portable Macs / October 2004question about wireless networking and older powerbooks
I'm considering getting a wireless router, and am wondering about the possibilities of setting up my Lombard to benefit from this. My other laptop is a new 12" G4, so no problem there, as it has airport extreme installed. I don't seem able to find an apple pc card that would work with the Lombard. Does such a thing still exist? I've read on a website, that it's possible to use a wireless pc card, even if it doesn't explicitly support a Mac. If this is the case, has anyone here done that, and what were the problems, if any? Both computers are running 10.3.5. David  SignatureDavid Horne- www.davidhorne.net usenet (at) davidhorne (dot) co (dot) uk In article <1gm7k52.12u5v2wqk9or8N%this_address_is_for_spam@yahoo.com>, chancellor of the duchy of besses o' th' barn <this_address_is_for_spam@yahoo.com> wrote: > I'm considering getting a wireless router, and am wondering about the > possibilities of setting up my Lombard to benefit from this. I've got an old Wallstreet on wireless, so I would think a Lombard should work as well. Asantè makes a CardBus card that supports 802.11b and g, and I just popped it in to one of the PC card slots, turned on AirPort and was online immediately. (I have OS X on that machine, dunno how well it might work with OS 9.) There were some other PC card wireless adapters, maybe made by Orange Micro, that supposedly work but need a third-party open-source driver to work on a Mac, and I heard reports from a couple people that they couldn't get their card to work. They're slightly cheaper than the Asantè card, but I wasn't willing to mess around with the potential issues. My Asantè card works flawlessly. (I just wish I could remember the name of the thing, but it was a long and hard to remember name...) Signature-Thomas <http://www.bitjuggler.com/> > In article <1gm7k52.12u5v2wqk9or8N%this_address_is_for_spam@yahoo.com>, > chancellor of the duchy of besses o' th' barn [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] > remember the name of the thing, but it was a long and hard to remember > name...) Thanks for that information. Since posting, I found some more information on the apple fora, and it looks like the BELKIN 54g F5D7010UK card should work. It's also quite cheap for the UK- I can get it for £25. That might be the way to go... David SignatureDavid Horne- www.davidhorne.net usenet (at) davidhorne (dot) co (dot) uk chancellor of the duchy of besses o' th' barn <this_address_is_for_spam@yahoo.com> wrote: [] > Thanks for that information. Since posting, I found some more > information on the apple fora, and it looks like the BELKIN 54g > F5D7010UK card should work. It's also quite cheap for the UK- I can get > it for £25. That might be the way to go... Just a quick update- I went out this afternoon, and bought the card mentioned above, and a Belkin wireless access point. Got home, opened the boxes, took the ethernet cable leading from my router to an ethernet hub, plugged it into the back of the wireless access point. My PB G4 connected immediately. Put the PC card in the Lombard, restarted, same thing. A few clicks, no drivers etc. to install. All working perfectly! :) David SignatureDavid Horne- www.davidhorne.net usenet (at) davidhorne (dot) co (dot) uk * chancellor of the duchy of besses o' th' barn <this_address_is_for_spam@yahoo.com>, 2004-10-25 18:08 +0200: > chancellor of the duchy of besses o' th' barn > <this_address_is_for_spam@yahoo.com> wrote: [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > > All working perfectly! :) And that's the moment to change the access point's standard network name and password, turn off remote administrative access, and turn on WPA (if possible) or WEP encryption, b/c everybody else in the neighborhood could do just the same thing. Play save, -Andre |
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