Wi-Fi card for old PowerBook 667

On Oct 11, 2007, at 2:23 PM, Damian wrote:

> I have an "old" pb 667Mhz that didn't come with any sort of airport/
> wifi card. I'm reluctant to get rid of it as I would like to use it
> around my home rather than being tied to the office. It's still a
> great machine.
>
> Does anyone have any recommendations for a card?

I'm using a Buffalo WLI-CB-G54HP in my old Pismo. It works with the
regular AirPort drivers in Tiger, so you don't have to install any
third-party drivers.

On Oct 11, 2007, at 5:23 PM, Damian wrote:

> I have an "old" pb 667Mhz that didn't come with any sort of airport/
> wifi card. I'm reluctant to get rid of it as I would like to use it
> around my home rather than being tied to the office. It's still a
> great machine.
>
> Does anyone have any recommendations for a card?

I bought my TiBook G4/400 without wireless, and later acquired a
Lucent 'Wavelan Silver' 802.11 (model # PC4E-H-F) PCMCIA card, which
has worked perfectly for the last 4 years or so, in the TiBook as
well as a G3 'Lombard' and several older PC laptops running XP pro. I
did need to install a 3rd party driver for it, from IOExperts.

HTH,

Roger Henriques
rdh at rhen dot com

On Oct 11, 2007, at 17:23, Damian wrote:

> I have an "old" pb 667Mhz that didn't come with any sort of airport/
> wifi card. I'm reluctant to get rid of it as I would like to use it
> around my home rather than being tied to the office. It's still a
> great machine.
>
> Does anyone have any recommendations for a card?

I had an Aria Extreme from Sonnet in my Ti 800 and it worked fine
with the built in Airport drivers. The antenna stuck out the side
about a half inch so that it was outside the metal . . . but it
wasn't obtrusive. It only does g though . . .so if you have n at
home the Edimax would take advantage of that . . . but I'm not sure
that the PCMCIA slot has enough throughput to actually use n speed
though . . . and then I never heard of the Edimax either.

At 2:23 PM -0700 10/11/07, Damian wrote:
>I have an "old" pb 667Mhz that didn't come with any sort of
>airport/wifi card. I'm reluctant to get rid of it as I would like to
>use it around my home rather than being tied to the office. It's
>still a great machine.
>
>Does anyone have any recommendations for a card?
>
>Some that I have found:
>ttp://eshop.macsales.com/item/Sonnet%20Technology/G54CB/
><http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Edimax/EW7708PN/>
><http://www.quickertek.com/products/bg_cb.php>

MacWireless has a PC-card-slot card with an external antenna. This is
much better than relying on an Apple card which uses the internal
antenna which, as you may remember about the TiG4, had a signal that
was dramatically attenuated by its placement inside the titanium body.

<http://www.macwireless.com/html/products/11g_11b_cards/11gPCCard.php>

Also, this card does b and g, and costs about 1/3 of a new Apple card
(if you can find that latter). Drivers are already in OSX.

On Oct 11, 2007, at 5:23 PM, Damian wrote:

> I have an "old" pb 667Mhz that didn't come with any sort of airport/
> wifi card. I'm reluctant to get rid of it as I would like to use it
> around my home rather than being tied to the office. It's still a
> great machine.
>
> Does anyone have any recommendations for a card?

i got a Motorola WN825G card a few years ago for under $20 on ebay
for my elderly G4 Titanium Powerbook. it uses the same chipset as the
Airport card so it doesn't need any drivers and shows up as an
Airport card (assuming you're using OSX on it, i don't know about 9).
it worked so well i got another one for my even more elderly
Wallstreet Powerbook.

i had previously tried an internal Airport card in the G4 but
performance was abysmal.

Well I hope I'm not too late with this advice, but the key to picking a suitable 3rd party substitute WiFi card, router or any other Apple branded peripheral/product is to determine what the chip-set is/was that Apple chose for its product.

Then you buy from a good company that uses that same chip-set in its product. In the case of a WiFi product the Mac software will see it as an Airport product and you won't have to bother with 3rd party drivers.

For my 2001 PB-G4 Ti 400MHz I bought a 8.0.2b/g PCMCIA (sic) card (with the BroadCom chip-set which is what was used by Apple in the Airport Extreme 8.0.2g cards and Base Stations) by Buffalo Technologies for $20, on sale, from CompUSA. RUNS LIKE DEERe.{;->