Re: Wallstreet and Duo

2005-10-28 Thread Mike McGinnis
Yes, I have run Duos, Wallstreets, and Lombards from the Duo power adapter. The only problem I have found is the Duo P/S does not have as high a current output, so it may not charge your battery while the computer is awake. It will take longer to charge but other than that there is no problem.

Re: General Lombard Questions.

2005-07-12 Thread Mike McGinnis
IIRC that is only with a G4 upgrade. Mike --- Lisa Tom P [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why not just get the L2 cache replaced ? Daystar will do it for ~$30 + shpping, IIRC. Mad Dog -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronics

Re: Problem with Wallstreet HD install

2005-06-23 Thread Mike McGinnis
Is the new drive an ATA-6 drive? I have read Lombards will not run on a ATA-6, max is a ATA-5. I don't know if this is true on a Wallstreet. Just my .$ 02 Mike --- Ben Woodard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for all the comments, but I don't think We have hit the solution yet. I did

Re: Wireless recomendations?

2005-04-25 Thread Mike McGinnis
Deaner, Check out http://www.ralinktech.com/supp-1.htm . Mac drivers are at the bottom of the page. I ran into this problem 5 months ago and Belkin techs were not aware of the chipset change much less the available drivers. Mike I have called Belkin and begged them to get the engineers to

Re: iBook DVD Player question

2005-03-21 Thread Mike McGinnis
Laurent, My wife has a 800mhz, G4, 12 10.3.x iBook , her's will play DVDs full screen. Mike My daughter has a 1GHz G4, 12 iBook with the combo drive. She is running OS X of course. I just realized something odd: when she watches a movie in DVD Player, even if she chooses Full screen, the

Re: 802.11g on a lombard

2005-02-05 Thread Mike McGinnis
Not necessarily, the Belkin card in the red/gray box should have the broadcom chipset and will work with airport drivers. However the Belkin card in the white/gray box was in my case, a Ralink Technologies chipset. If you go to their website you will find drivers, however airport drivers will not

Re: iBook CD ROM dead, Install question. HELP

2005-01-24 Thread Mike McGinnis
Alex, I don't know if this has been brought up yet. When you initially installed OSX did you check the box to install OS9 Drivers? This is done on using Disk Utility. Just a thought. Mike --- Alex Santos 100MB Neostrada Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK I have 512MB that I bought for this

Re: Pbk G3 reformat help

2004-12-02 Thread Mike McGinnis
--- Laurent Daudelin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 02/12/04 14:02, Kristina Rost [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you press C at boot time and the PowerBook doesn't boot from the CD, it can only be one of three things: the CD is bad, the CD-ROM drive is bad or an OpenFirmware password was

Re: Wallstreet not seeing Belkin wireless card

2004-11-19 Thread Mike McGinnis
--- Laurent Daudelin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 19/11/04 08:58, Anne Judge at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After saying I would for months, I just upgraded my Wallstreet (466, 384MB RAM, 20gig HD) to 10.2.8 in the hopes of making it my kitchen recipe/internet radio computer. (No

Re: Airport problems

2004-11-16 Thread Mike McGinnis
--- Laurent Daudelin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 16/11/04 07:41, John McGibney at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 16/11/04 01:42, Mike McGinnis at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, I have been learning from this list for a while and I now have a problem I haven't been able to solve

Re: Airport problems

2004-11-16 Thread Mike McGinnis
Thanks John, I had a feeling he didn't know what he was talking about. Mike --- John McGibney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Toolbar icon shows: pc card ID info: Broadcom 802.11 CardBus John -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronics

Airport problems

2004-11-15 Thread Mike McGinnis
Hi All, I have been learning from this list for a while and I now have a problem I haven't been able to solve on my own. I have a Lombard with OS 10.3.6 which I have recently decided to change to a Belkin G pcmcia card from an Orinoco Silver B card, I uninstalled the sourceforge drivers I was

Re: Opinions on CDs

2004-05-25 Thread Mike McGinnis
I have used the bulk pack CDs for music (300+ burns) and had no problems at all. If I was backing up data I might be more cautious however. Mike 7500/G3, Sony CDRW On Tuesday, May 25, 2004, at 06:12 PM, Michael Levin wrote: I need to burn several CDs of pictures, music and documents on my PB

Re: Trying to go wireless with Pismo

2004-03-21 Thread Mike McGinnis
I am running a Dell 1150 in my Lombard with a SMC router with no problems. I found even though this is a re-badged Orinoco Gold it will not work under airport software (OSX or OS9). The drivers I used is WirelessDriver Beta5 , http://sourceforge.net/projects/wirelessdriver/ . Good luck,

Re: Trying to go wireless with Pismo

2004-03-21 Thread Mike McGinnis
Under Network ( System Preferences) -Ethernet adapter Under TC/IP Setup, Configure-Using DCHP (do not put in ip address let Server do that) Under System Preferences, Wireless Config - Put in name of network , then hit Apply Now to activate. You should see a signal strength on the display.

Re: AirPort problem

2004-02-27 Thread Mike McGinnis
The WaveLAN cards will work with OS 9 Airport software, however you need outside drivers for OSX. Mike On Friday, February 27, 2004, at 07:38 AM, Thomas Ethen wrote: I thought that since the WaveLAN card comes in the ABS that you didn't need any additional software to use it. I put a Compac

Re: cooling down Lombard?

2004-02-19 Thread Mike McGinnis
Andrew, I use Thermograph on OS9. http://www.kezer.net/thermograph.html . I have also tone the thermal paste, I don't know for sure how much good it did as my processor had already lost its L2 cache, it did seem to drop the temperature about 10-15 degrees F. Mike McGinnis On Thursday

Re: Lombard ram again

2004-02-14 Thread Mike McGinnis
Hi Vicky, I finally fired up my Lombards to check the temperature. It runs about 63'c for light work to 75'c for processor intensive work. With mine I removed the heat-sink from the top of the processor and put on new thermal grease. It had already fried the L2 Cache so I felt I couldn't do

Re: OSX won't let me boot OS9

2004-01-18 Thread Mike McGinnis
Option key doesn't work on my Lombard either. Mike On Sunday, January 18, 2004, at 05:53 PM, gf sciacca wrote: - I have a Wallstreet 266 mhz and I finally got a big enough hard drive - for something besides OS9. I put OS9 on the second partition, then - installed OSX on the first partition

Property Management software / WTB DVD drive

2004-01-14 Thread Mike McGinnis
of listers. TIA, Mike McGinnis Lombard -Os 9.1 / 9.2 / 10.2.8 -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http

Orinoco Gold

2003-09-29 Thread Mike McGinnis
Hi all, As a new Lombard owner I have had no experience with Wi-Fi cards. The preferred card seem to be the Orinoco Gold for those of us running os 9.x. On ebay I see a plethora of Orinoco cards most are however branded with another name, are these the same cards with someone else's name on