Airport Alternatives?

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Airport Alternatives?

Sorry if this has been posted before... I have been trying to search but am on my PC at work and IE is dying. Anyway, I have been out of the loop for a bit with my Macs and just started using my G4 Sawtooth (450/768 ram/40 gig/9.2.1) seriously and am looking to add airport to it. After discovering that the airport cards compatable with it are discontinued and the rpices are skyrocketing, I am looking to other options. Does anyone know of a compatable 802.11b PCI card, or USB dongle, or any kind of hack I can do to get mine back online via wireless other than opening my wallet for an airport card?
Thanks for any help you can give me!
~D.J.~

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As far as I can tell, an Airp

As far as I can tell, an Airport card is just a Lucent wifi card without the antenna part and with remapped pins. But it would be nearly impossible to convert a normal wifi card to Airport-compatible. It would be possible to use an ethernet to wifi bridge to get the same effect, but that's external and around $50-80.

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PC card in AP slot . . .

has worked for me, using a Pismo, a WaveLAN Silver and Apple's AP SW under OS9. Dunno if it'd work in a Sawtooth though. Can't hurt to try I guess. The PC card would stick out a bit further than does an AP card, so might have to do some sheet metal hacking to get it in there.

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Excellent... I will look into

Excellent... I will look into this. What about an external USB wifi access point? The cost factor of these make me think I might as well break down and scout out an airport card on ebay, too, along with a copy of panther though.

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Note that Apple swapped some

Note that Apple swapped some pins on the AP card so that people wouldn't just that sort of thing. Finding those pins would be a difficult task and those in the know are keeping it that way.

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