Which Airport card for late 2003 G5 do I need?

I think perhaps it's the wrong card for this system?

You have the correct card. Look elsewhere for the source of your issue.

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I know you may have done this all ready but check the antenna cable and the external antenna
if the system is seeing it it probably the right card. try looking here
http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/powermacg5/links/powermacg5.html

Is the antenna connected ?

Have you cleaned out the G5 ? Whch OS is it running ?

What is the issue / are the issues you are facing ? What do you do to try to establish a network connection ? and what feedback do you get ?

No signal ?

Intermittet signal ?

Password not accepted ?

What else is connected to the G5 ? via Ethernet ? via FireWire ? via Bluetooth ? via Internal Modem ?
What is the oder of the Network interfaces in the System Preference ? (open Network System Pref, pick "Network Port Configurations" under "Show:"

No consolation, my AirPort signal strength in my G5 is criminally awful about 18 inches from the wireless antenna. Of course, my old G4 is in the way. And a 6-way power brick.

How about the Antenna though?

Symptom

A Power Mac G5 computer does not detect an AirPort network or Bluetooth device, even though the base station or device is well within range.

http://support.apple.com/kb/TA27092

http://support.apple.com/kb/TA27094?viewlocale=en_US



http://www.yourmacstore.com/shop/shopexd.asp?id=528

Just questions you have to ask, and you've answered all of them.

Looks like the external antenna may be the issue. Mine is back in the original G5 box, but very few 2nd hand G5's come with it included - from what I've seen on eBay. It never caused me any real issue, the wireless router 18in away is also a Gigabit switch, so good quality Ethernet cable gives me a network connection 20x to 30x faster than perfect wireless reception could ever give me - handy for multi-GB file transfers to the MDD or Mac Pro (some 24in the other side of the router).

OOPs, sorry, it does indeed!

I recently installed an airport card from ebay on my old G5 tower mac, worked perfectly when I installed the card. My G5 already had the antenna part already attached to my mac. But I believe the wifi should still work even if its not attached. It might be your network thats the issue. Maybe only a certain amount of devices can connect to your router...I know I have had issues before with my mac connecting to networks. Sometimes what helps is reseting the modem and router.

Other times its the security settings on the router that make it not work, or your firewall one the mac is blocking your connection. What might help also is deleting the connections you have in your network settings and switching the location to Automatic and then try setting up a new wifi connection. Another last resort is swapping out your router for a newer one if your router is older. Sometimes that helps too... I'm using this kind of router Linksys Linksys Simultaneous Dual-N Band Wireless Router WRT610N. Works great with macs and has a good radius not to mention you can setup up 2 types of bands.

Sometimes radio frequencies can disrupt a connection. Like for say an xbox or microwave... Hope something in here helps you cuz I totally get how frustrating it can be when you cant connect xD


Heres a link to where I got my G5 airport card if you might think its your aircard.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=290450605937&ssPageName=STRK: MEWNX:IT#ht2438wt1139

Mmm, perhaps something hanging around in the System prefs that causes your connection attempt to use the wrong encryption type. What is the encryption type, you'll be limited by what the original AirPort card, on 802.11b, can support.

Make sure it selects the right one when you key your password. Not familiar with OSX 10.5 wireless connectivity (OK, it's on my Mac Pro, but I've never used it). I know that some of the connection routes (ie. connect to a specific network in the Network System Pref, let you key the password there with no option to select the encryption method.

I'm sure that the Mac OS gets it right nearly all the time, but my PBG4, running OSX 10.4, used to get it wrong more often than not (auto-selecting WPA when it was a 128-bit WEP network and WPA2 Personal when it finally was a WPA network.

In earlier OS's you can force it to let you choose the encryption method by selecting "Other..." from the list of wireless networks to join.

G5's can only use Airport Extreme Cards 802.11B/G maybe A too. Mac G5's only allow that card.