Powerbook G3 series II 266 Wifi???

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Powerbook G3 series II 266 Wifi???

Hi can you help me?

Ok I've been thinking that instead of treating myself to a lovely new ibook, I should see if I could upgrade my ancient G3 Powerbook first

I literally just want to use my wifi broadband at home i the UK, on a Sky broadband router, I pretty much guess it will be useless for anything else (ie Abobe Creative Suite 3) I just want to be able to surf the net while my boyf is hogging my imac 😉

I'm not techie at all so please give me a dummies guide!

My Powerbook is a 266mhz version of the following that has been upgraded to 192mb ram

PowerBook G3/266 Series II (August 1998)

CPU: PowerPC 750 (G3) 266 MHz
1 MB Level 2 cache
66 MHz system bus
Standard RAM: 64 MB
14.1" 1024 x 768 active-matrix STN color display
built-in 56k fax modem
S-video out
20x CD-ROM drive (DVD-ROM optional)
floppy drive optional
4 GB hard drive
supports SCSI Disk Mode
4 MB SDRAM

I have a pc card that was a USB converter so I could connect my zip drive

If you can advise me whether it can be done and a step by step guide to what I need to do I would be so grateful!

g3 266, Mac OS 8.6 or Earlier

Posted on May 23, 2009 2:02 PM

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jpl

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May 24, 2009 9:02 AM in response to punkypickle

punkypickle,

Jan Hedlund over on the other forum gave you a good link for a step by step guide to wireless on older powerbooks. I might suggest this: First connect your Wallstreet (PDQ) to the router via Ethernet and see if you can surf the Net as you wish. You are probably running MacOS 8.6 since that is the minimum required for a USB PC card. The problem with OSes earlier than 10.x running on the Net is the browser; few browsers are available for pre-OSX (aka Classic) systems that can handle today's web pages. You can try Internet Explorer already installed in your system but even the last IE Classic-compatible version can't even load most Apple pages.

There are a few browsers still being updated for Classic. I would give this one a try:

iCab 3.0.5
(Classic) Mac OS 8.5 - 9.2.2
(PPC, G3, G4, G5) English

http://www.icab.de/dl.php

You of course could install Jaguar/10.2, freely update to 10.2.8, then use a more modern browser. However, you would have to add more RAM but you could get by with the 4GB HD (I first ran 10.2 on my Wallstreet with a 2GB HD, but this was only for browsing).

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Answer 2

jpl

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May 24, 2009 2:40 PM in response to punkypickle

punkypickle,

Before running iCab, go to their home page > FAQ > MacOS 8-9 for a few helpful tips.
http://www.icab.de/faq.html

You can download iCab with the iMac, burn a CD to move it over to the Wallstreet, or use a USB thumb/flash drive to move it to the powerbook unless setting up the USB PC card is a problem.

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