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Where can I get a Sawooth ready Airport card?
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Junior Member
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Chicago
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Hey all,
I just got my new Mac, a 15" 1.5 Gig Powerbook and an Airport Express. I'm super happy however, I want to keep my music library on my old PowerMac (Sawtooth) 400 Mhz with 10 Gig HD plus an additional 120 MB internal HD. In fact the older tower is to become my server. I had heard the newer Airport Extreme cards don't work in older Macs like mine and retailers don't seem to be stocking the older card anymore. I want to be able to not just save and retrieve files from the "server", but use as the source of my music files for my PB's iTunes (which I know can be done). Anyone know if newer cards DO work in older PowerMac towers (G4) or the best place to get an older Airport card?
Thanks.
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Sep 2000
Location: Binghamton, New York, USA
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Due to the fact that these are no longer made, you can try Small Dog if you're willing to pay $119.00. You can also give ebay a shot. Sometimes you can even find one for sale on the marketplace forum on this website. Good luck!
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Senior User
Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: New Orleans, LA
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You can also use a usb/wifi adapter. D-Link makes one with mac drivers called the DWL-122 (i think that's the model number) which sell for $30-40 in retail stores like Compusa, Bestbuy and Office Depot. There are usually rebates on these too; a friend of mine just got one for $10 after rebate. These will give you 802.11b speeds, same as the normal old Airport card.
You can also get a PCI usb2.0 card and get a 802.11g usb adapter, and that'll gve you airport "extreme" speeds.
-vasu
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Junior Member
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Chicago
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which only works with Airport.
Tekserve sells them too , according to another post.
Thanks.
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Nov 1999
Location: Columbus, Ohio
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Originally posted by vasu:
You can also use a usb/wifi adapter. D-Link makes one with mac drivers called the DWL-122 (i think that's the model number) which sell for $30-40 in retail stores like Compusa, Bestbuy and Office Depot. There are usually rebates on these too; a friend of mine just got one for $10 after rebate. These will give you 802.11b speeds, same as the normal old Airport card.
You can also get a PCI usb2.0 card and get a 802.11g usb adapter, and that'll gve you airport "extreme" speeds.
-vasu
a much cheaper and easier way to get 802.11g speeds on an old Powermac is to get a pci wi-fi card that uses a Broadcom chipset. i bought a Motorola 802.11G PCI card (WPCI810G (P/N 498467-001-00) at wal-mart for $39. works out of the box in my 450 sawtooth with no problems.
check out this report from xlr8yourmac.com regarding 802.11g pci cards that work in X and airport.
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