5300c not working with ANY wireless drivers. Please help!

what kind of cards u have? is pcmcia or cardbus(remember, pb5300 doesnt support cardbus)?

Perry,

Possibly this tutorial will help; it covers all the earlier powerbooks.

http://www.penmachine.com/techie/airport1400.html

I do have this quote by John Todd:

"I have had great success using the ORiNOCO 6.00.4 drivers with both Mac OS 8.1 and 7.6.1, on several old PowerBooks (from 5300c to 1400c/166). I used a Proxim ORiNOCO Silver PC Card that I purchased new from MacConnection for $40 earlier this year, which is roughly what you would pay for a used card on eBay."

Perry,

If you go to this link...
http://home.earthlink.net/~metaphyzx/Wireless.htm

...you will see that the Agere uses the Orinoco chipset. You want a card with the Orinoco chipset.

However, if you have a card labeled Proxim, it may have the Orinoco or Prism or Amtel chipset; check which chipset you have.

When the card is inserted, have you selected the wireless card in AppleTalk?

Perry,

PC Card Manager 3.0 was a hardware component of the 2400, 3400, and newer. However, as various articles suggest, the PB 190, 5300, 1400, etc, can be wireless without PC Card manager 3.0.

Did you happen to see this site?
http://home.earthlink.net/~kjvann/

Perry,

I really don't know what else to suggest...

Obviously the card slot is working since you can boot to a CF card, but how are you installing the OS?

Are you sure the OS contains all the necessary components for the 5300?

You mentioned you also had OS 8.1. Might be worth a try...

Perry
Drivers for the interface dards excepted, there is no difference in requirement for wired or wireless AppleTalk over Ethernet and TCP/IP. Although they are not explicitly referred to by you, the following may all have been attended. If not, they need to be attended.

It is wise to install the PC card software first, lest that install older versions of software that you need. After that, depending on your System/OS, check here for congruent versions of AppleShare Client for your System version. If need be, download and install the relevant version(s) of Open Transport if they are not already present.

Having done that, configure AppleTalk, TCP/IP (including Configuration), FileSharing (or not, depending on the machine that will play server to other Macs as clients), Owner & Guests.

Perry,

If I may ask, exactly which card(s) have you been testing?

A Proxim model 8421-WD (it says Orinoco 11b Client PC Card Silver on the box) appears to show a similar behaviour in my PowerBook 5300c. An enclosed note indicates that this card is not appropriate for certain older PC operating systems (an Orinoco Classic Gold PC Card is recommended instead), but nothing at all is said about Macintosh. I have tried some Mac driver versions, with a (clean) reinstallation of the operating system (7.5.3/7.5.5) whenever necessary, but so far without any luck. This leads me to believe that the circuit design may have changed, possibly making the card incompatible with older Macintosh driver software. See also the text about newer cards in Derek K. Miller's article (jpl's link above). The antenna of the 8421-WD card in question is "curved at the edges".

Jan

I loaded a stripped down System 7 on to CF, Booted to
it, installed support for my wired ethernet card, and
used AppleTalk to install OS 8.1 from my iMac. I then
selected to boot from the OS 8.1 drive, and installed
the wireless drivers, and it still didnt work. The
cards aren't bum, and the slots work, so I really
dont know what is wrong.

I bought an ethernet to wireless bridge, so my
problem is temporarily fixed. I would love to get the
cards working though. 😟

Thanks for all your help.
Perry

Perry,
I looked at all the same things and was going to go your route untill I found MacWireless. Bought their card (low power)and drivers and they were very helpful setting up and when I had hardware issues took care of it. Some things to consider are going to 9.1 operating system and making sure your hardware is up to snuff. I had a weak cmos battery (dead), and the power supply was loose. Powerbook guy has parts or can fix for you, I had my brother resolder my power supply. The loose connections were causing all sorts of funny behavior.I was using a VST power pack in the floppy drive before and the internal heat was more than the system could handle I think.
I am running a pmcia SD card in the bottom slot for virtual memory and using IE and ICab for browsers. Most static web sites come up fine but active gif and large renderings are prehistoric with the slow system bus. I use this machine when I am watching TV because the thing is so slow you have to have something else to do when waiting for pages to render. ICab will freeze ocassionally.
Also remembered reading somewhere this set up will only recognize one ethernet connection at a time. My connection says alternate ethernet for connection.
5300ce,48mb ram,vm,1.1 gb hd,MacWireless card

I Mac flat panel G4 800,768mb Mac OS X (10.3.9) I book, P4,5300ce