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iBook Airport broken (well, kinda). The Airport card is OK, but...
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Join Date: May 2002
Location: Germany, 51°51´51" N, 9°05´41" E
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I wanted my new/old iBook 500 MHz dual USB to get wireless. After installing a genuine known-good AirPort card i experienced some strange behaviour. (see this thread for the history of that problem: http://www.appletalker.com/forum/ind...=thread&id=121). The failure is NOT due to the card, because now my known-good Airport from my Tibook is installed and shows the same strange behaviour as the Orinoco one. The iBook is detected by my Tibook, but when using a WiFi sniffer on the iBook a "No WiFi signal" shows up.
So it finally turned out that my ibooks Airport is only able to send a signal, no receiving is possible. Anyone knows how to get Airport working. Maybe an internal antenna plug has come loose or something?!?
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Macintosh Quadra 950, Centris 610, Powermac 6100, iBook dual USB, Powerbook 667 DVI, Powerbook 867 DVI, MacBook Pro early 2011
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Seems unlikely that the antenna would go bad. Have you double-checked the Network System Pref to make sure that Airport is turned on? Sometimes the connector on the aiport card needs to be pushed in very firmly??
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If you follow up given link, you´d see that the ibook is indeed sending a signal that´s detected by my Tibook. But no incoming WiFi signal is detected from the iBook´s side.
Very strange...
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Macintosh Quadra 950, Centris 610, Powermac 6100, iBook dual USB, Powerbook 667 DVI, Powerbook 867 DVI, MacBook Pro early 2011
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What version of OS X are you running? Have you tried resetting PRAM/NVRAM? Made sure the firewall is off?
Also, make sure you have the latest iBook firmware installed (if there is one?).
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Join Date: May 2002
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Originally Posted by jamil5454
What version of OS X are you running? Have you tried resetting PRAM/NVRAM? Made sure the firewall is off?
Also, make sure you have the latest iBook firmware installed (if there is one?).
The latest, 10.4.5. PRAM reset didn´t work either. How do i check for firmware updates? But anyways, i doubt it´s a firmware prob because both the Airport card and the iBook are from 2001. I´m also unable to create an ad hoc network between my Tibook and the iBook. But it´s definetely the iBooks hardware fault, the card works well in my Tibook
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Does the antenna connector of your iBook "snap" into the card? It's been a while since I installed an AirPort card but I remember it snapping into place.
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Sounds like a software configuration issue to me honestly. If it was a hardware issue, it's probably a physically loose/non-existent connection with part of the Airport Card's pins on the connector slot.
I've had problems like this in Windows XP when TCP/IP wasn't configured correctly, and in Linux when my network wasn't configured properly. I'd check your router settings just to be sure.
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The wire fell out of the connector on mine. $34 to get a new connector installed. Is it possible that this has happened or it's not snapped in all the way?
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