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Submitted by tori_twit on December 5, 2004 - 1:19am. PowerPC Macs

Hello--I'm new here, I was hoping I could find some answers.

I recently acquired a PowerBook 1400cs. After replacing the hard drive to have an entire 2 gigs of space, it runs OS 9.1 with a whopping 32 megs of RAM.

This is where the trouble starts. I have an ORiNOCO Silver wireless PCMCIA card, and the software I got off the internet (with my eMac-burnt them to CD). Problem one: when the card is inserted, I get the message that the software is not installed. But the software is installed. I would go to the control panel and see if it could be fixed from there, but that's where problem two comes in.

Problem two: the PowerBook randomly freezes. I can't think of any other word for it other than "freezes". This is odd, because I've never had a Mac (of any sort, running any OS) "freeze" on me before. The cursor stops tracking, the menu goes dim (y'know, like when you can't clik on anything) and the hard drive/CD-ROM stops spinning. In short, there's nothing you can do, because nothing responds.

Can anyone help with either of these problems?

Thanks,
Tori

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Submitted by williamahearn on December 5, 2004 - 3:52am.

are you *sure* that the card matches the software? If so, trash it and re-install it with the card in place.

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when it freezes...

Submitted by coius on December 5, 2004 - 6:34am.

It could be either an extension conflict, or a hardware problem. If you have incompatible hardware, it could stop responding if the data that it is getting from the device isn't quite "right".
There..... That was my two cents worth

(please don't flame me if i'm wrong)

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The answer?

Submitted by alfadog on October 4, 2005 - 11:57pm.

I know that this is an old thread but for the next guy . . .
I just set up a 1400cs with Avaya Silver card. The Avaya card is the same card as Orinoco I strongly believe. On the Avaya (avaya.com) website it has ver 7.1 drivers but specifically says that older PBs including 1400 will not load the driver. I tried and that was the case (using OS 9.0.4 on a fresh install). But there are ver 7.2 beta drivers on the site. I uninstalled the 7.1 and installed 7.2 and, wallar, I connected to the net on my WiFi. Now to upgrade the Netscape 4.7 on it.
Oh and mine just froze but that was after surfing a while. That is why I am here - how do you force a reboot. I am a PC guy (oh, the shame . . . NOT) and just starting with Macs, I have a nice collection of laptops and iMacs to play with.
John
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9.1 + wifi driver =

Submitted by jamie37187 on October 5, 2005 - 11:57am.

I have had horrible luck running 9.1 on non-upgraded 1400s--by that I mean non-G3. It is painfully unstable, and I have stopped installing anything above 8.6 on any 1400.

That being said, your WiFi card issues could be with your driver/client software. Are you using the latest version of Orinoco's software? Version 7.2 is available at http://www.proxim.com/support/all/orinoco/software/dl2002_orinoco_client_r72_macos.html.

Be sure to remove all vestiges of the old software, and then restart the 1400 with the card inserted--it may eject after startup, but immediately push it back in. Then say no to ejecting it when the 1400 asks you if you want to. Then install the software and restart again. It should work.

Again, I know it is cool to run 9.1 on the 1400, but if you want it to be consistently functional, I would strongly suggest downgrading to 8.6. It'll run like a dream and you can still use WiFi, etc. There are good MP3 jukeboxes, etc. for 8.6 too. Just keep it in mind.

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