Airport and Powerbook Titanium

Hi, pmorr. If you want an Apple wireless card, then yes, it will have to be the original Airport rather than an Airport Extreme card (the Extreme card doesn't fit into a Tibook, physically). But original Airport cards are extravagantly expensive now, and there's no compelling reason to buy one. There are several good third-party wireless cards that will go into your Powerbook's PC card (CardBus) slot and provide performance equal to or better than an Airport Extreme Card (same speed, greater range) provides in AE-equipped Aluminum Powerbooks. They use Apple's own drivers, so they require no third-party software, and they set up just like Apple's cards. The only downside to using one is that it ties your CardBus slot up. Here are three such cards:

Sonnet
MacWireless
Buffalo

I have the same setup. I bought the Sonnet Aria Extreme PCI card. The problem is that, it shows the card powered up, has a MAC address, but does not show any networks or signals. I tried the card in another system and it works. Does anyone have any suggestions?

Tim

Hi, tdyer. Do you have an Airport base station or wireless router of your own to which you're trying to connect? When you were successful connecting with your Sonnet card in "another system" (what sort of system?), was it your own network you connected to?

Hi again, pmorr. I forgot to mention in my first post that you do indeed need some sort of base station: an Airport base station or a wireless router.

I have a wireless router. I have never been able to get connected wirelessly. I have wireless at work and still cannot connect there either.

Tim

OK. I fixed my problem. I am using the Sonnet Aria Extreme PCI CardBus. I have no AirPort card. You will need to update your software while hardwired to the internet. You need to update to Airport 4.2 for OS 10.3.3 and above. Then get the update for the airport extreme. It has new information to allow the Powerbook to see thrid party cards.

You can access this by clicking the blue apple and selecting the "Software Update"

I hope this helps.

By the way...when you get your card working, it should be able to pick up wireless routers near you.

Tim

powrbook G4 Mac OS X (10.3.9)