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Alternate wireless card in Powerbook G4 1.25
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Join Date: Nov 2001
Location: Dallas, Texas
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I am having trouble with wireless reception in one end of my house and am hoping to fix my issue by switching to a PC Card slot wireless card. My question, when I install the new nic card in the PC slot, how do I disable the built in wireless card? Do I have to remove it from the laptop or can I just deactivate it in the OS?
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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Dec 1999
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You can disable it in the OS.
Open up your System Preferences, then go to Network. Have it list the devices. It should show Ethernet, Firewire, Bluetooth, Airport, and possibly Airport 2 (or the name of your wireless card.) Disable the first Airport and it should default to your new one.
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Join Date: Oct 2000
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I think it's built into your PB, so the best you can do is a software disable. What PC card are you looking into? The reason I ask is because I don't know how easy it is to find one for OS X given that every Mac has Airport built-in.
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I'd recommend a Cisco Aironet. They're more expensive but the quality is top notch and the drivers are updated often. Also, if you want to experiment with other OSes, Cisco provides drivers for damn near every OS.
Not to be confused with Linksys. Given how great Cisco's support for alternative OSes is, I was amazed to discover that Cisco doesn't do jack s**t with the Linksys products. They're still pretty much Windows only and Cisco doesn't seem to have any plans to change that. They just wanted their logo on a consumer item.
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Join Date: Nov 2001
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I bought a Motorola WN825G (PC slot) based on countless web searches siting the fact that it automagically works with OS10.4 on Powerbooks. Of course when I am attempting to remotely (via phone) get this up and running for my brother, nothing works as indicate by these sources.
I migrated to 10.5, and cannot remember exactly how to tell him to disable the internal card with 10.4. I have the handy "+" and "-" signs, he doesnt. We turned off Airport and think we disabled the internal card, but I get nothing from the the new card. Anyone have any thoughts on getting this done via phone>
Powerbook G4 1.0 (al) with the usual innards.
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Read my MacWebb column and other great Mac articles at Lowendmac.com
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Join Date: May 2003
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I also bought a Motorola WN825G based on a number of positive reports online. When I installed it the airport icon showed up in the menu bar showing the card was on but no networks are available. There is also the icon with a choice of broadcom or 802.11B, but these are greyed out.
I have a PB-G4-800MHZ running Tiger (10.4.11). This is a fresh installation so all other settings are standard.
Does anyone have any advice or comments that may help?
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