Hi Everyone,
I've been dealing with this problem for a few months now and I am really sick of it. I was hoping that the 10.4.3 update would fix it, but unfortunately, it did not. So I figured I would repost this to see if anyone else is having the same problems as I am, or if a fix has been found.
The problem:
My original Airport card in a iBook G3 600 will not work! 10.4.2 and .3 finds it just fine, but when I click "Turn airport card on" in either the connection menu or in the finder bar, I get the spinning beach ball, and the system locks up solid!
My hardware:
iBook G3 600 640mb ram, 80gb hard drive, original airport card.
Netgear wgt624 Super G wireless router -> Latest firmware.
Here is what I do know:
This has nothing to do with the Airport base station firmware upgrade/downgrade, as I do not have an airport base station.
This is not related to the lookupd problem (this has been fixed and is well documented in many forums)
I have not installed the airport 4.2 update as this makes the entire system completely unstable and to regain stability, I have to redo the entire system.
Something has happened to the airport card firmware itself. Here's how I know. My fiancée also has the same model iBook i do, also with an airport card. Her card was working just fine (10.3.9). When I took the card out of her system, and placed it in mine (logical step to see if my card was busted), the problem was not resolved, and when I returned it to her system, it no longer worked!!!!! Thus, my iBook loaded something onto the airport card. I also tried both cards in my G4 800 cube, with the same result.
I also know the card is not broken, and the antenna is functioning fine. I know this because accessing the card via the Kismac drivers works just fine and detects both my network and numerous others. Also, I have a fully functioning Gentoo Linux distribution on the system as well, and the airport card works just fine using wlantools.
Re installing 10.4 does not fix the problem. Re installing 10.3.9 does not fix the problem. Selectively installing security updates does not fix the problem.
I have repaired my permissions and my keychain, I have done a PMU reset.
My DWL-122 (D-link wireless usb adapter) works, but the drivers for it are a POS and makes the system very unstable.
So what should I do? I've done everything I can think of.
As of this moment, I am at a loss and extremely frustrated. I waited two months for 10.4.3 to come out and hoped that it would address this problem, but it seems to have made it worse (if that was possible).
Is anyone else having this problem? Has anyone found a solution to this problem?
Please help me.
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