broken airport with many open 802.11 networks still

2006-02-11 Thread Brian McEwen
Ok, Still have issues with airport and 802.11 on some open networks. It's likely a combo of broken Apple stuff, and a version of Windows server stuff, but I'm tired of being punished by this. My PDA can get online everywhere, my powerbook 1400 can get online everywhere, my nice AlBook

Re: broken airport with many open 802.11 networks still

2006-02-11 Thread Bruce Johnson
a broken Airport Extreme card. It's got nothing to do with OS X or configurations. Perhaps the card isn't responding properly on all channels, or the firmware is corrupted on it. IAC, I'd get it replaced. Open networks should let anything on, and if it won't work on open networks something's

Re: broken airport with many open 802.11 networks still

2006-02-11 Thread Brian McEwen
On Feb 11, 2006, at 12:55 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: No, it isn't. It's a defective AlBook, or more precisely a broken Airport Extreme card. It's got nothing to do with OS X or configurations. Perhaps the card isn't responding properly on all channels, or the firmware is corrupted

Re: broken airport with many open 802.11 networks still

2006-02-11 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Feb 11, 2006, at 12:36 PM, Brian McEwen wrote: Anyway I'm still open for USB 802.11b/g suggestions. How is reception/signal on those? Ok. Our experience with Netgear's version on PC's is that it's almost as good as a pcmcia card, about 80% of the effective range. -- Bruce Johnson

Re: broken airport with many open 802.11 networks still

2006-02-11 Thread calebcupplessocialism
drivers for OS X, but not the others. I haven't a clue about the broadcom stuff, though. By the way, to refute a statement made in an earlier post about Airport not being industry standard, it actually is. It's a stock Broadcom bcm43xx series chipset. Now, if Apple would backport the Airport

Airport Question (again)

2006-02-08 Thread Amanda Ward
Hi Y'all... I have an Airport problem. Recently, I put an original Airport card in my iBook (G3/500 - Dual USB). Worked fine under Panther and after upgrading to Tiger, it still performed flawlessly. This afternoon, I reset the Power manager in an attempt to squeeze a bit more life out

Airport Woes

2006-02-04 Thread Illovox Media
://www.wwc.edu/~frohro/Airport/Airport12OS86.html Where, of course they say ONLY Airport 1.2 will work. I have successfully installed Airport 1.2 using the tome stuff. I know the site says this is all about OS 8.6 and I'm running OS 9, so maybe that's the issue. I do, however have Airport showing up

Re: Airport Woes

2006-02-04 Thread Mark
Where, of course they say ONLY Airport 1.2 will work. I have successfully installed Airport 1.2 using the tome stuff. I know the site says this is all about OS 8.6 and I'm running OS 9, so maybe that's the issue. I do, however have Airport showing up now in my control strip, but still

Re: Wi-fi card Initialization Procedure for Airport.

2006-02-03 Thread Mark
Yes, it's in OS 9.0 but I've obviously got a problem of some sort. I think that I now know the card works... But in the 2400 nothing. I've got Airport installed... I suppose it's possible that the PC card cage or whatever is non-functional. Have you tried both slots? On 2/1/06 8:14

Wi-fi card Initialization Procedure for Airport.

2006-02-01 Thread Illovox Media
Well, let¹s not jump to conclusions...is this in 9? Orinoco Silvers work across the board, unless broken. If 9, you need to put the card in before power on, then once booted, reset Appletalk control to ³airport card² and TCIP control to ³airport². Close both panels and check ³yes, change² when

Re: Wi-fi card Initialization Procedure for Airport.

2006-02-01 Thread Mark
Yes, it's in OS 9.0 but I've obviously got a problem of some sort. I think that I now know the card works. Set it up in my Kanga (OS 9.1) and it finds my network, lights come on, etc. But in the 2400 nothing. I've got Airport installed. I can find it in applications, there's an Airport AP

Re: Wi-fi card Initialization Procedure for Airport.

2006-02-01 Thread Clark Martin
At 10:25 PM -0600 2/1/06, Mark wrote: Yes, it's in OS 9.0 but I've obviously got a problem of some sort. I think that I now know the card works. Set it up in my Kanga (OS 9.1) and it finds my network, lights come on, etc. But in the 2400 nothing. I've got Airport installed. I can find

Re: Airport network problem

2006-01-24 Thread Cheryl Goody
-0500 From: John McGibney [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Airport network problem In-reply-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] try starting here. http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=300661 Also I had to use Hex vs ASCII for password mode in order to connect

Airport network problem

2006-01-19 Thread Cheryl Goody
Here's the problem. We have an airport network: original Airport base station (bought in 2000, Graphite?), Linksys hub (2000), PowerBook G3 running OS X 10.3.9 with old (2000) Airport card, iMac G4 same OS hooked to RoadRunner cable modem by ethernet, and a brand new Airport Express hooked

Re: Airport network problem

2006-01-19 Thread John McGibney
, Cheryl Goody wrote: Here's the problem. We have an airport network: original Airport base station (bought in 2000, Graphite?), Linksys hub (2000), PowerBook G3 running OS X 10.3.9 with old (2000) Airport card, iMac G4 same OS hooked to RoadRunner cable modem by ethernet, and a brand new Airport

Re: Fwd: Airport Issues after Pismo set to IRDA

2006-01-10 Thread Barry Muller
Well, Based on some suggestions I connected the eMac to the DSL modem directly. All OK. Then I reconnected the airport, rebooted the base station and he DSL modem and reset the base station using the eMac. At first it looked like this did the trick as Internet COnnect showed that the eMac

Airport card sporadic cutoff disconnect fix 10.4.3

2006-01-05 Thread Kris Tilford
I have a couple iBooks that developed bad Airport connections recently. They sporadically would go off and not find any networks, and then just come back on full strength for no apparent reason. It appears the cause is that I mistakenly installed the Airport Update 2005-001 which was meant

Fwd: Airport Issues after Pismo set to IRDA

2006-01-01 Thread Barry Muller
macnetwork@mail.maclaunch.com Date: Sun, 1 Jan 2006 08:48:13 -0800 (PST) From: Barry Muller [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Airport Issues after Pismo set to IRDA Hello, I have an eMac running 10.2.8 w\ airport extreme card and a Pismo running 10.4.3 with an airport card; these (used to) connect

Re: Airport Question

2005-12-25 Thread Tim Collier
I went to Staples, and asked a salesperson about setting up a wireless network between a PC and a Mac. They didn't know, so they called over a higher up, who told me it could not be done. I got a Linksys WRT54G (not from Staples), installed an Airport extreme card, called Linksys tech

Re: Airport Question

2005-12-24 Thread Concetta Z
Reminds me of when I went to Staples, and asked a salesperson about setting up a wireless network between a PC and a Mac. They didn't know, so they called over a higher up, who told me it could not be done. I got a Linksys WRT54G (not from Staples), installed an Airport extreme card, called

Re: Airport Question

2005-12-23 Thread John Siple
On Dec 22, 2005, at 10:49 PM, Clem Bacani wrote: Generally routers works fine for both PC and Mac but manufacturers had the habit of putting in their box that product works ok with Windows -- XP etc and no mention that it works ok with Mac. Perhaps they are not targeting Mac users as

Re: Airport Question

2005-12-23 Thread Caleb Cupples
I do agree with you, there. I know that I use Linux and OS X for most of what I do, but it's really a pain to have to jump through hoops to configure a router. Now, I agree with your condescending outlook on such things, but there are some things that I'd like to be able to see a picture of my

Re: Airport Question

2005-12-23 Thread Tim Collier
Plain simple truth of the matter is that Apple designed their Airport base stations and the Airport Express to work with your Mac. The Airport Setup software is designed to set it up in just a few simple steps that rarely even require referring to the enclosed documentation. Whether you

Re: Airport Question

2005-12-23 Thread Alan Miller
On Dec 23, 2005, at 7:59 AM, Tim Collier wrote: I called customer support and got a very unhelpful person at the other end who told me that you shouldn't be using this with a Mac in the first place. So they really don't want Mac users buying their product. -- Alan Miller Underwater

Re: Airport Question

2005-12-23 Thread VICTORIA.DUGGAN
Hi all if that is so then why does mac format give it 4.5 out of 5 as a mac router and it only dropped the .5 % because of the price even thought they are, roughly 30% cheaper that the airport base stations. I think That it is each to there own on the router side and what works for some may

Re: Airport Question

2005-12-23 Thread Caleb Cupples
Ouch. Sounds like a bad business strategy, as far as I'm concerned. Even Microsoft admits that Mac users make up a large chunk of their profits... Caleb On Friday, Dec 23, 2005, at 07:12 America/Chicago, Alan Miller wrote: On Dec 23, 2005, at 7:59 AM, Tim Collier wrote: I called customer

Re: Airport Question

2005-12-23 Thread bobgir2004
FYI, Over the period of two years, I had 2 Linksys cable/dsl routers. Both stopped functioning without any apparent reasons. Right after the warranty ended up. I decided to go with D-Link and so far, after a little bit over a year, it's still running fine. They were all Ethernet routers, not

Dead Airport Base Station

2005-12-23 Thread Alan Miller
Sorry for the cross post, but it could go to either. But my airport (I use with this laptop) has stopped giving me green lights and now will cycle through the start up of Red and Amber but no green light. I saw one once for a split second when I was messing with it but it went red before I

Re: Dead Airport Base Station

2005-12-23 Thread VICTORIA.DUGGAN
problem. vicki On Dec 23, 2005, at 4:00 PM, Alan Miller wrote: Sorry for the cross post, but it could go to either. But my airport (I use with this laptop) has stopped giving me green lights and now will cycle through the start up of Red and Amber but no green light. I saw one once

Re: Airport Question

2005-12-23 Thread Tim Collier
Oh, I've been told that before. Like with BellSouth DSL, after one of their outages and my modem appeared fully connected yet wouldn't allow mail or safari to connect, they blamed the Mac and said it wasn't compatible with their system and it was my fault. If I would only use Internet

Re: Dead Airport Base Station

2005-12-23 Thread Dylan McDermond
On Dec 23, 2005, at 8:00 AM, Alan Miller wrote: But my airport (I use with this laptop) has stopped giving me green lights and now will cycle through the start up of Red and Amber but no green light. I saw one once for a split second when I was messing with it but it went red before I

Re: Airport Question

2005-12-22 Thread david
On Dec 22, 2005, at 1:41 AM, Clark Martin wrote: Your iBook can only take an original Airport card (802.11b) so stick with a b router unless there is something else that might go wireless. Don't worry about the future, by then a g (or n, x, y or z) router will likely be cheaper than what

Re: Airport Question

2005-12-22 Thread Concetta Z
Not trying to be contrary here, but I am very pleased with Linksys. I installed Airport Express in my iBook and I bought one of their 802.11g routers a while back and set up a wireless network in our house, talked through by great customer service - and it was a network between my Mac and my

Re: Airport Question

2005-12-22 Thread Caleb Cupples
with Linksys. I installed Airport Express in my iBook and I bought one of their 802.11g routers a while back and set up a wireless network in our house, talked through by great customer service - and it was a network between my Mac and my mom's PC, on opposite sides of the house. Both

Re: Airport Question

2005-12-22 Thread themacuser
. That's just my humble opinion, based on the lack of Mac-compatible offerings they have... Caleb On Thursday, Dec 22, 2005, at 23:25 America/Chicago, Concetta Z wrote: Not trying to be contrary here, but I am very pleased with Linksys. I installed Airport Express in my iBook and I bought one

Re: Airport Question

2005-12-22 Thread Laurent Daudelin
on 23/12/05 00:52, themacuser at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Huh? Their routers all seem to have web-config and they're all 802.11, so I don't see how it can not be mac-friendly. I havent used one yet though, so correct me if I am wrong. As long as you don't need their support, you're fine. But

Re: Airport Question

2005-12-22 Thread themacuser
Strange though, I've had people swear by Linksys routers and say Netgear ones suck... I have already ordered a linksys ADSL2 ethernet router when I signed up to internode... hope it works... On 23/12/2005, at 4:42 PM, Laurent Daudelin wrote: on 23/12/05 00:52, themacuser at [EMAIL

Re: Airport Question

2005-12-22 Thread Caleb Cupples
That's what I was getting at. Plus, as far as my bespectacled eyes can tell, the box says Designed for Microsoft Windows XP on most, if not all of their products. That's enough to make me look the other way. No blue X = not buying... Caleb On Friday, Dec 23, 2005, at 00:12 America/Chicago,

Re: Airport Question

2005-12-22 Thread Clem Bacani
Generally routers works fine for both PC and Mac but manufacturers had the habit of putting in their box that product works ok with Windows -- XP etc and no mention that it works ok with Mac. Perhaps they are not targeting Mac users as their clients. Clem On Dec 22, 2005, at 10:40 PM,

Re: Security Updates/Airport connection

2005-12-21 Thread Wilma Miller
am having trouble accessing the internet. I now have to select (instead of it being automatically recognized) my home Airport network everytime I open up the lid of my PB. When I try to use a browser, I get the message that it can't find the server of the homepage. Do I have to go into preferences

Re: Security Updates/Airport connection

2005-12-21 Thread Tom Ethen
Worked for me using Firefox! On 12/19/05 7:46 AM, Wilma Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm wondering if this is causing the problem that suddenly developed when I try to access a site I go to every day: www.onepaper.com (a St. Thomas newspaper online). -- G-Books is sponsored by

Airport Question

2005-12-21 Thread Amanda Ward
Hi All, I've decided to go wireless with my iBook-500, but I don't have a base unit yet. Just put an Airport (original) card in my 'Book and it works fine... seems someone is running an open wireless network nearby! :) Anyway... I went window shopping for equipment over the weekend

Re: Airport Question

2005-12-21 Thread VICTORIA.DUGGAN
Hi Amanda I use a netgear wgt624 108mbps wireless router without problem. The router is very easy to set up and i have no troubles connecting a couple of laptops and a couple of desktops all via airport or wireless connections. It lets my mini connect at the full 54mbps airport extreme

Re: Airport Question

2005-12-21 Thread Clark Martin
At 10:23 PM -0800 12/21/05, Amanda Ward wrote: Hi All, I've decided to go wireless with my iBook-500, but I don't have a base unit yet. Just put an Airport (original) card in my 'Book and it works fine... seems someone is running an open wireless network nearby! :) Anyway... I went window

Re: Security Updates/Airport connection

2005-12-20 Thread Kris Tilford
My iBook lost the ability to connect via Airport card at all. When Airport was turned ON in the menubar it found no networks at all, just as if the card was broken. The solution I've found was to download KisMac and then use the KisMac active Airport driver, in teh KisMac preferences I

Security Updates/Airport connection

2005-12-18 Thread lesriess
I just did a Security Update on my Pismo, OS X 10.3.9, and I am having trouble accessing the internet. I now have to select (instead of it being automatically recognized) my home Airport network everytime I open up the lid of my PB. When I try to use a browser, I get the message that it can't

Re: Security Updates/Airport connection

2005-12-18 Thread Zoltan Batiz
On Dec 18, 2005, at 12:03 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just did a Security Update on my Pismo, OS X 10.3.9, and I am having trouble accessing the internet. I now have to select (instead of it being automatically recognized) my home Airport network everytime I open up the lid of my PB. When

Airport Client Monitor problem

2005-12-09 Thread Harry Corsover
All of a sudden, Airport Client Monitor on my 15 AlBook 1.25MHz no longer works properly. Upon loading, it shows a steeply declining line that goes to zero and stays there, despite my having a steady signal (as displayed in the Airport menu, and as evidenced by being able to go online

Re: Airport Card doesn't show up

2005-12-09 Thread B.L.
I believe I have been remiss in my duty to thank everyone that responded to the above query. So with that in mind I just wanted to say thank you each and everyone who offered advise suggestions or information in my quest to get a pcmcia wifi card working on my 400mhz Lombard. I ended up

Airport Card Fun Games

2005-12-08 Thread NormanS
..comming out of lurkerhood for this one OK, I have been noticing that this is a fairly common mystery, and here is my twist: With my original 6gb drive in my Pismo, I put an Airport card in it and it was working perfectly, using either System 9.2.2 or OSX10.3 which I set up

Re: Airport Card Fun Games

2005-12-08 Thread Clark Martin
At 11:21 AM -0500 12/8/05, NormanS wrote: ..comming out of lurkerhood for this one OK, I have been noticing that this is a fairly common mystery, and here is my twist: With my original 6gb drive in my Pismo, I put an Airport card in it and it was working perfectly, using either

Re: Airport Card doesn't show up

2005-12-06 Thread B.L.
G-Books wrote on 12/6/05, 14:30: The option isn't given to you unless you have a useable Airport card. Ken ** Thanks Ken; I get it now, no Airport card, no Airport option to connect via. Brad -- Brad 55417-1734 Pwr Mac G4 64 MB Radeon 7000 AGP Gtaphics OWC Mercury

Re: Airport Card doesn't show up

2005-12-05 Thread B.L.
is it that Airport in the Network Pane under System Preferences doesn't show up. Airport not showing up there means that I can't even select Airport as a viable connection option. Brad -- Brad 55417-1734 Pwr Mac G4 64 MB Radeon 7000 AGP Gtaphics OWC Mercury Extreme 1GHZ CPU Upgrade 1.12GB Ram 9GB

Re: Airport Card doesn't show up

2005-12-05 Thread B.L.
G-Books wrote on 12/5/05, 08:07: Any card with the Broadcom chipset (SOME of the cards/adapters by Belkin, Buffalo [what my friend now uses in his 10.2 WS], Linksys, Sonnet, among others) will be seen as an Airport card in OSX 10.2 and up. xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo Ivy F., AL Roll

Re: Airport Card doesn't show up

2005-12-05 Thread Ken
* Thanks Ken for the heads op on this issue. But tell me why is it that Airport in the Network Pane under System Preferences doesn't show up. Airport not showing up there means that I can't even select Airport as a viable connection option. Brad - Why? questions are always tough ones

Airport Card doesn't show up

2005-12-04 Thread B.L.
Good Evening fellow listees; I have a small problem with my Airport set up on my Lombard. First of all any Airport compatible PCMCIA card I put in the PCMCIA slot doesn't show up in the network pane as an Airport card, in fact in the network pane under network status Airport doesn't show

Re: Airport Card doesn't show up

2005-12-04 Thread Ken
My Reply follows quote. On 04/12/2005 16:47 [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: This is all on a Powerbook Lombard 128mb ram/OS 10.2.8/6gig harddrive a 400mhz processor. My Airport compatible Orinoco Gold also doesn't show up under 10.2.8 in a Wallstreet. Problem is, Apple didn't build

Re: Airport Card doesn't show up

2005-12-04 Thread GalBros
In a message dated 12/4/05 8:15:57 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: My Airport compatible Orinoco Gold also doesn't show up under 10.2.8 in a Wallstreet. Problem is, Apple didn't build in the drivers for these compatible cards. You will need to install something like the IOExperts driver to use

Why do I have to reset Airport for every security update?!

2005-11-30 Thread Zoltan Batiz
Hello All, I've noticed that after the past year or so, EVERY freakin' security update from Apple makes me have to literally unplug my ABS just to get my network working again. Anyone else have to go through this? Pismo 500/1gig, 10.3.9 Zoltan -- G-Books is sponsored by

Re: Why do I have to reset Airport for every security update?!

2005-11-30 Thread VICTORIA.DUGGAN
Hi Zoltan Are you using an external g card or the built in airport, because i had this problem using a g card in the pcmcia slot changed to airport and all is fine. vicki On Dec 1, 2005, at 1:50 AM, Zoltan Batiz wrote: Hello All, I've noticed that after the past year or so, EVERY

Re: Airport cards

2005-11-20 Thread GalBros
those cards have a built-in antenna? How did you fit it in the iBook? Aha, I see. The Airport card I retreived from the Base Station (Snow/Dual USB, if that makes a difference) has no antenna that I can see; it has the antenna jack that is on every other Airport card I have seen

Re: Airport cards

2005-11-20 Thread GalBros
Hello again. Okay, took a look at my Airport card in my iBook, and compared it with the one I obtained recently from a snow base station: iBook card APN: 630-2883 FCC ID: same (blank) (blank) (bottom) 825-5620 012331/A Snow Base Station (dual ethernet) card APN: 630-2883/C FCC

Airport cards

2005-11-19 Thread GalBros
Hello, I think it was on this list recently where a lister blew two motherboards from using a bad Airport card? I obtained an airport card from a broken (per owner) Airport Base Station. I installed the airport card in my iBook ; on startup in 10.3, I was given a message saying I needed

Re: Airport cards

2005-11-19 Thread Laurent Daudelin
on 19/11/05 16:28, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I think it was on this list recently where a lister blew two motherboards from using a bad Airport card? I obtained an airport card from a broken (per owner) Airport Base Station. I installed the airport card in my

Re: Airport cards

2005-11-19 Thread Tom Ethen
All the base station cards I have seen have a built in antenna and can only be used in the external card slots on laptops and not the inside slots. Tom Must be the card. But you said you got that card from a Base Station? Don't those cards have a built-in antenna? How did you fit it in the

Re: Airport Card Causing Fritz? Is it Possible? Fixes?

2005-11-04 Thread illovox
Thanks Bruce. It was a bad day... From: Bruce Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Airport Card Causing Fritz? Is it Possible? Fixes? Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2005 15:39:23 -0700 Ouch. You have my sympathies. It sounds as though something is shorted out in that airport card which then fried

Airport problem with 10.4.3

2005-11-03 Thread Luis Sequeira
After upgrading to 10.4.3, I lost the ability to connect to my Base Station. I noticed that shortly after the release of 10.4.3, there was an update for Airport and installed it, but it made no difference. Also, like other people, I received a message about airport needing access to my

Re: Airport problem with 10.4.3

2005-11-03 Thread Malcolm Cornelius
After upgrading to 10.4.3, I lost the ability to connect to my Base Station. I noticed that shortly after the release of 10.4.3, there was an update for Airport and installed it, but it made no difference. Also, like other people, I received a message about airport needing access to my

Re: Airport problem with 10.4.3

2005-11-03 Thread Malcolm Cornelius
After upgrading to 10.4.3, I lost the ability to connect to my Base Station. I noticed that shortly after the release of 10.4.3, there was an update for Airport and installed it, but it made no difference. There is an update available. Apologies, I misread your post. Malcolm -- G

Re: Airport problem with 10.4.3

2005-11-03 Thread John McGibney
Fairly common complaint for most upgrades. Try this: 1 access your base station via ethernet. 2 change the channel on the base station. 3 try and connect via your airport card. This should solve the problem. I usually fixed the problem in the past for most people that lost the connection after

Airport Card Causing Fritz? Is it Possible? Fixes?

2005-11-02 Thread illovox
Re: Airport Card Causing Fritz? Is it Possible? Fixes? So here's the deal: A friend of mine in the recycling industry handed me a pile of 40 original Airport cards. He said I could test and sell them to my favorite listers, then keep some of the proceeds toward future buys. Fair enough. I

Re: Airport Card Causing Fritz? Is it Possible? Fixes?

2005-11-02 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Nov 2, 2005, at 3:15 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Re: Airport Card Causing Fritz? Is it Possible? Fixes? So here's the deal: A friend of mine in the recycling industry handed me a pile of 40 original Airport cards. He said I could test and sell them to my

Re: Airport Card Causing Fritz? Is it Possible? Fixes?

2005-11-02 Thread John Siple
$75 X 40 = $3,000 = new iBook + Used Pismo + $1,000 which still puts you ahead of the game. Unless you get the new iBook and test another bad Airport card in it and KKKRAaaPowwie! That would be an unfortunate situation. Have you tried any Apple hardware tests on your iBook, or a restore

Original Airport Cards Available

2005-10-28 Thread illovox
As per the list etiquette which allow for occasional sale posts by members who have gear of special interest, I wanted to let all know that I have a limited number of original airport cards available for sale. These cards work in the internal slot of Pismo G3 books, many iMacs, many G4 towers

Wireless for Pismo to Airport Xtreme base

2005-10-18 Thread John W. Travis, MD (Jack)
What kind of card is best/compatible for a Pismo (Panther) to connect to an Airport Xtreme base? I've heard the original airport cards for the pismo are expensive so I'm hoping a less expensive and faster alternative is available for its slot. Thanks, J -- G-Books is sponsored by http

Re: Wireless for Pismo to Airport Xtreme base

2005-10-18 Thread Krow Magnum
As far as I know there are no replacements for the Airport card isteslf but you can use a PCMCIA wifi card and get the same results. Check this site for the options: http://www.powerbookwireless.net And this site has some stuff for sale and more info: http://www.macwireless.com/ On 10/18/05

Re: Wireless for Pismo to Airport Xtreme base

2005-10-18 Thread victoria duggan
Hi I Use a Motorola wn825G card in one of the pismos i have it gives G speed when connecting to the Netgear router i have and is around £30. on Ebay It uses the airport drivers and is seen by the system as an airport extreme card. vicki What kind of card is best/compatible

Re: airport express

2005-10-03 Thread Zoltan Batiz
in the medium range. Even when I move over and sit right on top of the airport express it barely reaches the lowest extreme of what is considered a strong signal. Strong being 70 and above. I'll keep an eye on this for a while and try to see what happens when my network disappears all

Re: iBook says Airport card not installed when it is

2005-10-02 Thread Robert Eye
an Airport card for my son's tangerine iBook. When I try to run the Airport software it say that an Airport card is not installed. I know the Airport card is good because I swapped it out with the one in our graphite iBook and the new card works fine. I'm using it to post this message

Re: airport express

2005-10-02 Thread Dennis Goglin
Ok...I've downloaded macstumbler. Thank you. From what I see I'm the only one on channel one. The other activity is pretty much on channels 6 and 9. Curious though...the signal strength is only in the medium range. Even when I move over and sit right on top of the airport express

Re: airport express

2005-10-02 Thread Clark Martin
right on top of the airport express it barely reaches the lowest extreme of what is considered a strong signal. Strong being 70 and above. I'll keep an eye on this for a while and try to see what happens when my network disappears all together. I'm starting to suspect there's something wrong

airport express

2005-10-01 Thread Dennis Goglin
I got an airport express about a year ago to use with my clamshell ibook. After some difficulty setting it up, I had to get an Apple tech. to help me, it worked but was continually fading in and out. I'd lose my internet connection and when I'd try to re-establish a message would appear

Re: airport express

2005-10-01 Thread Clark Martin
At 12:05 AM -0400 10/1/05, Dennis Goglin wrote: I got an airport express about a year ago to use with my clamshell ibook. After some difficulty setting it up, I had to get an Apple tech. to help me, it worked but was continually fading in and out. I'd lose my internet connection and when I'd

Re: airport express

2005-10-01 Thread John Siple
are being used. Or perhaps there's just something wrong with the Express. I use non- Apple routers and have little trouble with network reliability so the technology is certainly capable of reliable connections. John On Sep 30, 2005, at 9:05 PM, Dennis Goglin wrote: I got an airport express

Re: airport express

2005-10-01 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Sep 30, 2005, at 9:05 PM, Dennis Goglin wrote: I got an airport express about a year ago to use with my clamshell ibook. After some difficulty setting it up, I had to get an Apple tech. to help me, it worked but was continually fading in and out. I'd lose my internet connection

iBook says Airport card not installed when it is

2005-10-01 Thread Robert Eye
I just bought an Airport card for my son's tangerine iBook. When I try to run the Airport software it say that an Airport card is not installed. I know the Airport card is good because I swapped it out with the one in our graphite iBook and the new card works fine. I'm using it to post

Re: Airport range with Pismo (internal vs external)?

2005-09-07 Thread Clark Martin
the card into a powerbook and pick up wherever I left off. Unfortunately I can't do this with my Lombard since the wireless card occupies the sole card slot so I'm considering trading up to a Pismo. My question is, how does the internal Airport card compare to a PC wireless card (like the Cisco

Re: Airport range with Pismo (internal vs external)?

2005-09-06 Thread Robert Eye
The (original) Airport card is essentially the same (internally and performance-wise) as the Lucent PCMCIA cards, except the pin/antenna configurations are different. Although I have no direct experience, it seems from what I have read that the older PBs and the original iBook have the best range

Re: Airport range with Pismo (internal vs external)?

2005-09-06 Thread Dylan McDermond
On Sep 6, 2005, at 1:59 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all I'lm about to switch my e-mail over to a G4 Cube ans I want to have a powerbook that will share the same mail files. The concept is to store the mail files on a CF card in a USB reader attached to the Cube. For portable use

Re: Auto Connect to my Airport. . .

2005-08-29 Thread Zoltan Batiz
refuses to auto-connect to my Airport Network. I had to change my Airport network settings from automatic to a specific network under the by default join dialog. Normally, this wouldn't be a big deal, but since it's not set to automatic, on those rare occasions when I'm actually out and about with my

Re: Auto Connect to my Airport. . .

2005-08-29 Thread Bruce Johnson
in Airport. . . at this point I guess anything's possible. I'll keep you and the list posted in case it stops working again. THANKS! :) Nah, this is merely the little documented Silicon Pyschic Neuronal Chip (SPinNaCh) Apple's been embedding in their systems for some time, so that the true

Re: Auto Connect to my Airport. . .

2005-08-28 Thread Daniel Colwell
On Sat, 20 Aug 2005, Zoltan Batiz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Aug 19, 2005, at 10:25 PM, Daniel Colwell wrote: On Sun, 14 Aug 2005 Zoltan Batiz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all, For some reason, after I changed ISP's, my Pismo refuses to auto-connect to my Airport Network. I had

Re: Auto Connect to my Airport. . .

2005-08-20 Thread Zoltan Batiz
On Aug 19, 2005, at 10:25 PM, Daniel Colwell wrote: On Sun, 14 Aug 2005 Zoltan Batiz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all, For some reason, after I changed ISP's, my Pismo refuses to auto-connect to my Airport Network. I had to change my Airport network settings from automatic

Re: Auto Connect to my Airport. . .

2005-08-19 Thread Daniel Colwell
On Sun, 14 Aug 2005 Zoltan Batiz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all, For some reason, after I changed ISP's, my Pismo refuses to auto-connect to my Airport Network. I had to change my Airport network settings from automatic to a specific network under the by default join dialog. Normally

Auto Connect to my Airport. . .

2005-08-14 Thread Zoltan Batiz
Hello all, For some reason, after I changed ISP's, my Pismo refuses to auto-connect to my Airport Network. I had to change my Airport network settings from automatic to a specific network under the by default join dialog. Normally, this wouldn't be a big deal, but since it's not set

Re: AirPort SW 4.2 update

2005-08-10 Thread Geoffrey Loeffler
Good for you, I swap between the 2 letting SU install and keep the package 1 at a time, checking per release dates, notes or logic to what should be 1st, 2nd etc, then do the disk repair duo dance and on to the next. This seems to work best on the iBooks 1.2 . My Pismos seem to fine with

original Airport card 128 bit encryption?

2005-08-09 Thread kaldav
Hello, I see original Airport cards advertised with 64 bit and 128 bit encryption. How does one upgrade the original card to 128 bit? Thanks. -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site

Re: original Airport card 128 bit encryption?

2005-08-09 Thread Malcolm Cornelius
Hello, I see original Airport cards advertised with 64 bit and 128 bit encryption. How does one upgrade the original card to 128 bit? Thanks. Done automatically by the Airport SW IIRC. -- Best wishes Malcolm Cornelius - The Powerbook Fanatic http://www.pbfanatic.co.uk -- G-Books

Re: original Airport card 128 bit encryption?

2005-08-09 Thread Fabian Fang
On Aug 9, 2005, at 5:46 AM, kaldav wrote: I see original Airport cards advertised with 64 bit and 128 bit encryption. How does one upgrade the original card to 128 bit? Check out the following Apple Support webpage for relevant Airport Card update documents: http://search.info.apple.com

AirPort SW 4.2 update

2005-08-08 Thread Dennis B. Swaney
I went to install this update on my G4 PowerBook that is running Mac OS 10.3.9. The update wouldn't install because it said that it needed Mac OS 10.3. So how do I install the Airport Update? Reinstall Mac OS 10.3 and then go through the update to 10.3.9 after installing the Airport update

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