Airport Extreme in OS 9

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Airport Extreme in OS 9

I was lucky enough to find a 1Gig eMac that will dual boot into OSX and 9.2. I have an Airport Extreme card that works wonderfully in OSX. The problem is that in 9.2, Airport says there is no card present. I searched Apple and found that the extreme card has no drivers written to work with OS 9. Does anyone know of a generic driver written that will "find" the extreme card in OS 9. I tried the Areocard one, but it only works with b type cards.

Posted on Nov 6, 2005 4:43 PM

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Answer 1

Duane

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Nov 6, 2005 8:59 PM in response to Dan Strong

Sorry, but I'm pretty sure that you are looking for something that you aren't going to find.

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Nov 7, 2005 8:57 AM in response to Dan Strong

Dan,

A truly great find. Unfortunately, just in case you didn't read this:

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107440

you're out of luck. I think that's pretty cheap of Apple.

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Henry B.

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Nov 7, 2005 10:34 AM in response to Simon Teale

Well... the eMac 1gig just happens to be a rare Mac capable of (a) using an Airport Extreme card and (b) booting into MacOS 9.x. Presumably Apple wasn't about to write a MacOS 9 driver for the Airport Extreme that would only ever be used with one specific model of Mac.

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Dan Strong Author

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Nov 7, 2005 11:03 AM in response to Dan Strong

Yes, Simon...that's the page I first read about the extreme card. There are a couple of generic drivers that work with b cards on the web. I was hoping somebody had found one that worked with the extreme card.

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