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Q: An airport card not functioning in Pismos - anyone. . .

. . . experienced the like?

Three Pismos, one flat panel iMac & two airport cards around a family network.

One card works in any of the boxes, but the other card baulks at functioning in any of the Pismos, yet sings along in the iMac. The good airport card and a PCMCIA card funtion in all the Pismos.

This has me tossed (I'm an old radio tech - contacts look undamaged, etc.)

Does this ring any bells with anyone?

128 Mac( (now 2Mb-swoon) OS 0.9 (seriously - found in ReEdit) to many many Macs & now waiting for the next quantum leap.  OS X.4.9   (>And< the 128 Mac still works!)</span>

Various, Mac OS X (10.3.9), My 128 Mac still works!

Posted on Apr 10, 2007 6:39 PM

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Q: An airport card not functioning in Pismos - anyone. . .

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  • by Gary 5200,

    Gary 5200 Gary 5200 Apr 25, 2007 8:51 AM in response to Sqidge
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    Apr 25, 2007 8:51 AM in response to Sqidge
    Do the Pismos have OS 9.1 or higher? if they do, you could be using AirPort software for youre problemy wireless card. Try going online and downloading the drivers for the wireless card.

  • by Alex Dawson,

    Alex Dawson Alex Dawson May 7, 2007 1:03 AM in response to Sqidge
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    May 7, 2007 1:03 AM in response to Sqidge
    I've seen something frightening like this before with an Airport card that worked in some iBooks, but not others. I never worked out what it was, but I suspect incompatible firmware on the Airport card.

    You could try running software update on the iMac while it's in there to see if it fixes it, but I can't guarantee anything.

  • by Sqidge,

    Sqidge Sqidge Aug 3, 2007 4:56 PM in response to Gary 5200
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    Aug 3, 2007 4:56 PM in response to Gary 5200
    Thanks for that. Yes, all the MacBoxes are running the latest X.4.

    I can't say that I've noticed driver software/firmware for Airport cards. Any idea of the nomenclature needed to find?

  • by Sqidge,

    Sqidge Sqidge Aug 3, 2007 5:03 PM in response to Alex Dawson
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    Aug 3, 2007 5:03 PM in response to Alex Dawson
    It is nice to know I've got company, at least.

    To be honest I've given up fighting this one. I managed to pick up a Broadcom chip based PCMCIA WiFi card, and it hums along beautifully, if occasionally awkwardly.

    Lets consider this case closed - I'm going to upgrade when Apple make a 'Book with a screen as clear and as large as the Pismo (Old eyes can't handle dense pixels on small screens.

    Thank you both.

    Jen of Brisbane

  • by Grant Bennet-Alder,

    Grant Bennet-Alder Grant Bennet-Alder Aug 4, 2007 11:10 PM in response to Gary 5200
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    Aug 4, 2007 11:10 PM in response to Gary 5200
    Gary-

    What software did you have in mind to download to correct this problem?

    Airport software from Apple?
    Third party?
    Do you remember a name or any other hint to search for?

  • by Preston Parish,

    Preston Parish Preston Parish Sep 7, 2007 10:45 PM in response to Sqidge
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    Sep 7, 2007 10:45 PM in response to Sqidge
    hi! yes... I am having similar problems.

    I realize this is an older thread, but it still seems to have some life to it!

    Here's my situation: I have a Powerbook G3 Pismo that I've recently (finally) installed an airport card in. I have both OS 9.2 and OS 10.4 installed on it (upgraded hard drive, of course!).

    The airport card works wonderfully in OS X, but the 400 mhz processor can't seem to handle the workload and crashes/freezes more often than is practical for normal every day usage (just surfing online...)

    Where as in OS 9 nothing crashes, it runs smoothly (I also maxed out the ram @ 1 gb) but I cannot seem to get online with the airport. I can log onto my network and the airport seems to be getting a fine signal, etc... but it just won't let me online!

    OS 9 is fully updated using software update... the system has no problem when I'm connected to an ethernet connection ...

    Does anyone have any suggestions? I see someone mentioned a firmware update for these older airport cards? Is that available?

    Thanks in advance!

  • by jpl,

    jpl jpl Sep 8, 2007 10:55 AM in response to Preston Parish
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    Sep 8, 2007 10:55 AM in response to Preston Parish
    Preston,

    There is no firmware update for the AirPort card and since the card works fine in OSX, I would assume you have a configuration problem in 9.x. By the way, there is a powerbook firmware update which should be applied if you have not done so:
    http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=75132

    If you check your Apple System Profiler, and it reports "Boot ROM version 4.18fS", you do not need the updater.

    Have you looked at this AirPort troubleshooting guide?
    http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106858