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Airport in a 20th Anniversary Mac?
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Join Date: Aug 2001
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Is there anyway to use an 802.11 card in my 20th Anniversary Mac? I have seen something from Farallon, but wasn't sure if it would work, or if different drivers are needed.
Has anyone ever done this kind of an upgarde?
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Join Date: May 2002
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Join Date: Oct 1999
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I have this setup in my TAM using the PCI adapter. It works well only if you get the patch that Orange Micro had to make their firewire card work right in the TAM
http://www.orangemicro.com/bin/PCIBridgePatch.bin
Another solution available now is to use a Linksys WET-11 which is a standalone 802.11b receiver with an ethernet output. Costs around $110.
Get a ComSlotII ethernet card and you can keep the PCI slot free on the TAM for a combo firewire/usb card for a complete up-to-date system. Slap in a G3 cache upgrade and you will really be smoking...
Andrew
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Join Date: Dec 2000
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Originally posted by drewman:
Slap in a G3 cache upgrade and you will really be smoking...
Andrew [/B]
*Shiver* G3 cache upgrades
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Thanks for the help everyone.
The Farallon bundle is on order.
And I have a Sonnet 400mhz G3 upgrade that works great. (I wish I would have bought the 500mhz upgrade, but the 400 was so much cheaper at the time.)
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Just to update everyone who helped...
The Farallon works great in my TAM! Thanks everyone.
Only thing is, now I miss the ethernet card that was in the PCI slot (for transferring large numbers of files).
I heard that there was a ethernet card that fits in a modem port (?) of the TAM... anyone have any idea what this could be?
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Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: Perth, Western Australia, Australia
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Originally posted by cjrivera:
I heard that there was a ethernet card that fits in a modem port (?) of the TAM... anyone have any idea what this could be?
TAMs need a CommSlotII Ethernet card. It will only do 10BaseT, but it works OK. However, the problem lies in buying one. They are about US$50 if you can find one. 
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Join Date: Oct 1999
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My Farallon Comm Slot II card is 10/100.
drewman
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Hmmm a G3 computer that is completely up to date, interesting.
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Join Date: Aug 2001
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Drewman,
where did you pick up that card?
I think I may give it a try.
1008com,
My only wish is that you could run OS X on it.
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