[titan44]

does anyone know know where there is a tear down of the airport. (orig./snow/extreme) In australia these things arn't cheap so i was looking at getting one off ebay, the pwr supp should'nt be a problem, but i was after the base station with the modem. Do they use dauthercards, i would imagine that apple would pull something out of the parts bin, i.e. modem from the ibook, Does anyone have ideas?

[Amorya]

Have been inside my graphite base station (replacing transistors). As far as I remember, the modem is indeed on a daughtercard, though it wasn't a type I recognised. (Interestingly, the wireless transmitter bit is a standard PCMCIA card, complete with external (to the computer, had the card been put in one) antenna).

It was a sort of squarish card IIRC... not like the PowerMac one. Dunno if that helps.

[Dex13]

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[Waragainstsleep]

He says the modems are the ones used in Powerbooks. Look just like the ones in the Wallstreet, Lombard and Pismo.
And they go for practically nothing on eBay, like US$10 or less.

[Grrr]

I've hacked apart graphite ones before.. And as Amorya said, the modem is indeed on a separate card inside.. Approx 2X3 inches. The graphite base stations were prone to over heating, so I had removed the modems. I never used that anyway, and removing it meant a bit more breathing space in there, and less heat generating circuitry. Certainly helped..