PCMCIA Ethernet card for OS X 10.4.8 ?

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PCMCIA Ethernet card for OS X 10.4.8 ?

My ethernet port on my Powerbook G4 is damaged and can no longer be used. I looked into getting it repaired but that apparently requires replacing the entire system board at considerable cost. Rather than take that route, I was hoping to find a PCMCIA card with an Ethernet port but I cannot seem to find any that will work with OS X 10.4.x.
Does anyone know of such a card ?

Thanks for your help !

Powerbook G4, Mac OS X (10.4.8), Powermac G5

Posted on Oct 22, 2006 8:27 AM

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Oct 22, 2006 1:49 PM in response to Mike Milicia

Have you tried Googling, "pcmcia ethernet card for Mac"?

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Mike Milicia Author

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Oct 22, 2006 3:16 PM in response to sig

Have you tried Googling, "pcmcia ethernet card for
Mac"?

Yes, I have done extensive Googling and have yet to find a single product whose manufacturer lists support for MAC OS X 10.4.x. There seems to be one card (Netgear FA511) that may apparently work if you download the source code for an open source driver and build it on your machine. This may or may not work but I would really prefer a product that I know will work "out of the box".

Does anyone know of such a card ?

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Oct 23, 2006 1:53 AM in response to Mike Milicia

So, these guys have nothing?
http://www.welovemacs.com/net-mpc-100.html
(MacSense PCMCIA 10/100 Ethernet Card)

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Mike Milicia Author

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Oct 23, 2006 4:05 AM in response to sig

So, these guys have nothing?
http://www.welovemacs.com/net-mpc-100.html
(MacSense PCMCIA 10/100 Ethernet Card)

This is one of the first things I found when I Googled before posting my original question.
But if you look towards the top of the page at this link under
System Requirements, you will see the following :

Supports Mac OS 7.5.3 and above (Excluding OSX support) G3 PowerBooks and above are not supported.

So, for my needs, yes, they have nothing.

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Oct 27, 2006 1:12 PM in response to Mike Milicia

If you just need a PCMCIA ethernet card, get this one from DLink.

http://www.dlink.com/products/?sec=1&pid=132

It works fine. Don't bother with the driver CD.

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Dec 17, 2006 11:22 AM in response to David Osahon

The card you posted a link for does not work. As a matter of fact, I found this thread trying to find a solution to my Powerbook/PCMCIA issue...which revolves around the incompatibility of that D-Link card and 10.4

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Jan 4, 2007 7:49 AM in response to Mike Milicia

You should really try USB to Ethernet.
I have tried a bunch of cardbus cards, none of them were recognized by OS X 10.4.8
Review the site below:
It seems like it has a favorable resutls.
Good Luck

http://sustworks.com/site/newsusbethernet.html

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