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Wifi card for pb bronze
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Can anyone recommend a wireless card for a Powerbook (bronze keyboard) that runs on Panther?
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I use one from Lucent. Real issue is the driver. I think you need to go to a third party driver as non-Apple 802.11 cards are not supported by Airport software. I use one from IOXperts for my Lucent running on my Lombard PBG3.
Originally posted by kikkoman:
Can anyone recommend a wireless card for a Powerbook (bronze keyboard) that runs on Panther?
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I agree with the IOxperts drivers theey even worked with my shitty Linksys card. Also check Buffalo Technology
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i've run a cabletron on a lombard with nary a problem. except when forcibly ejecting the card while it was active. the kernel didn't like that 
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I am using the Asante FriendlyNET AeroLAN-XG Wireless card on my Lombard/Bronze PowerBook. Works great. Plug it in and Panther recognizes it. Worked with Jaguar too. No drivers needed.
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I'm using a Lucent Orinoco Silver with a Lombard in OS 9 and X.2.6 I needed to download the drivers for 9 - works fine. In X, I plugged the card in and it showed in the menu bar, just like an Airport card would but no happiness. Don't know if this will work better in Jaguar but since this card is basically an Airport card, it should work. Still have to fiddle with it a bit but may try the IO driver.
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Just don't buy a card based on price, hoping it will work. Stay with exact models recommended here or at IOXperts list of compatible card models.
Also, the driver-free Asante means future OSX upgrades will still support it built-in.
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cisco aironet 340 and 350 cards work.
I own the 350 model, and Cisco writes the drivers for it and updates them.
It's very nice.
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Originally posted by Kami:
I'm using a Lucent Orinoco Silver with a Lombard in OS 9 and X.2.6 I needed to download the drivers for 9 - works fine. In X, I plugged the card in and it showed in the menu bar, just like an Airport card would but no happiness. Don't know if this will work better in Jaguar but since this card is basically an Airport card, it should work. Still have to fiddle with it a bit but may try the IO driver.
My experience with the Orinoco card was a bit different. OS 9 recognized it as an Airport card and worked without any special drivers, but with 10.0 and 10.1 I had to download the open-source Lucent driver. If I recall, the IOExperts driver works with many cards that share a common reference design, but the Lucent isn't in that group. It shouldn't be too difficult to find the driver. Look on Sourceforge.
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Join Date: Sep 2001
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Originally posted by vmarks:
cisco aironet 340 and 350 cards work.
I own the 350 model, and Cisco writes the drivers for it and updates them.
It's very nice.
I too have the Aironet 350 card (used with a Linksys WAP 4-port router). It works well and although there was a bit of a wait for Cisco to update from 10.1 to 10.2, the 10.2 drivers worked fine in Panther with no updates.
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sorry to be a pain but though i'm reassured by confidence in your aironet cards, i'm totally perplexed why my aironet 340 doesn't work anymore... any clues anybody on the problem below?
* it's a p'book pismo 500 running panther (10.3.5); also boots up on a separate partition 'jaguar' (10.2.6)
* problem - using cisco's aironet utility and 10.2.6, have no problems connecting to the 'net using my wireless router (also used by another p'book g4).
BUT 'radio' refuses to turn on when booted in 10.3.5, even though the aironet utility launches
After running troubleshooting function in this aironet utility, its report claims a firmware malfunction, upgrade required, etc. But no firmware upgrade available on Cisco's website.
SO aside from just going backwards and running Jaguar, is there a way to fix this radio firmware (so that it turns the 'radio' on), so the aironet s'ware lets me get online in Panther?
or is there a way to just use Airport s'ware under Panther to drive this aironet 340 card?
All advice gratefully accepted!
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update on aironet 340 problem - fixed it! i can now use this pismo-aironet340-panther to go online 
solution: reinstalled the older '03 version of aironet client, cleared out all previous aironet files from preferences, etc, and switching off 'world mode', which seemed to come on by default.
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Join Date: Feb 2004
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Hey kikkoman
I run a Belkin F5D7010 card and don't need any drivers... Running OS X 10.3.7 now, but started with 10.3.4.
Have Great Holiday's!!!
Brad
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Pismo 400 OS X 10.3.9, SuperDrive, 1gb Mem, 80gb HD.
New GREEN 6gb Mini!!! 1gb Shuffle, and 30gb iPod.
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