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Airport in a Powerbook 1400

Submitted by MightySerpent on February 12, 2004 - 1:08pm. PowerPC Macs

Well, I have a PB 1400 and I have an Airport card - I can't in good conscience keep the two apart!

I'll be running OS 8.6 or maybe 9.1 - are there any pitfalls I should be aware of before I start or will the installer be able to handle things OK?

Any advice would be appreciated!

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Cruller's picture

Airport is technically not PC

Submitted by Cruller on February 12, 2004 - 2:06pm.

Airport is technically not PCMCIA- Apple switched two pins, and which two it is is still a mystery.

And, yes, I've finally come to AF2. Still going to stay on AF1 as long as it exists, tho'.

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Erm thanks

Submitted by MightySerpent on February 12, 2004 - 5:38pm.

I'm not too worried what they did to it as long as I can get it to work in my 1400

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re: Airport and 1400

Submitted by Macinjosh on February 12, 2004 - 6:05pm.

http://www.penmachine.com/techie/airport1400.html

Mac OS

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If you're really determined

Submitted by g3head on February 12, 2004 - 7:33pm.

You would have to find what pins were switched and un switch them(there have been rumors that Apple had a setup that adapted the airport slot to standard PCMCIA)

Its doable but no ammount of wishing is going to get the AP card to work as a PCMCIA card as is. The Orinoco drivers should work fine once you unswitch the pins. The AP cards are based off the same chipset so you should be able to use those.

The Airport drivers are going to be useless tho' since it needs a system with Cardbus support (which is long after the 1400)

To be honest it would be better to sell the Airport card and get a true WaveLAN card.

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That's a great link Macinjosh

Submitted by DrBunsen on February 14, 2004 - 7:54pm.

That's a great link Macinjosh, I'll be adding to my Apple wireless page at melbourne.wireless.org.au/wiki/?Apple

..... as soon as I remember my password

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Jolly old Apple

Submitted by MightySerpent on February 16, 2004 - 1:13pm.

They really must have too much time. If it ain't broke, fix it.

Thanks for all the info though, chaps.

I do have an Elsa MC-11 Airlancer card - perhaps the Orinoco driver will run that. The only problem is that I can't get onto www.orinocowireless.com, is there a mirror site that anyone knows of?

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Jolly old Apple (2)

Submitted by MightySerpent on February 16, 2004 - 1:18pm.

*Oops, replied to the wrong post! Let's keep things tidy!

They really must have too much time. If it ain't broke, fix it.

Thanks for all the info though, chaps.

I do have an Elsa MC-11 Airlancer card - perhaps the Orinoco driver will run that. The only problem is that I can't get onto www.orinocowireless.com, is there a mirror site that anyone knows of?

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Try agere.com or wavelan.com

Submitted by DrBunsen on February 16, 2004 - 5:59pm.

Try agere.com or wavelan.com

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Try this

Submitted by MightySerpent on February 17, 2004 - 4:56pm.

ftp://ftp.wavelan.com/pub/software/IEEE/PC_CARD/APPLE/

The sub folders have various releases of Wavelan driver.

Although I have to say I have not tested any of these drivers!

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PB1400 + WaveLAN + OS 8.1

Submitted by gmusser on February 17, 2004 - 5:30pm.

I've used the v6 driver with a Dell-branded Orinoco card on a PB1400 running OS 8.1. You need to hack the driver using ResEdit to insert the identification for the card. But that shouldn't be necessary under OS >=8.5 because you can run the v7 driver.
George

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Version 7??

Submitted by MightySerpent on February 18, 2004 - 4:17pm.

I can only find version 6.
Presumably you got version 7 from a disk with the card?

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Version 7

Submitted by DrBunsen on February 19, 2004 - 12:09pm.

Go up a couple of levels in their ftp directory and then down again - you'll find it.

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Version 7!

Submitted by MightySerpent on February 20, 2004 - 9:13am.

Here we go

ftp://ftp.wavelan.com/pub/software/ORiNOCO/PC_Card/MacOS/R7.4winter2002/

I shall have to give this a try - thanks!

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