[Tfug] Airport card for Mac G3

[Anthony Hess]

I was going to say that I thought you could find a driver for an Orinoco
card.  Airport cards are hard to find and expensive since Apple stopped
making them (boo) when they introduced their g products.  If you can get
that driver working thats what I would do (unless you find a smokin deal on
an airport - the last time I checked you were going to pay at least 60-80
bucks).  Its not as pretty as the internal, but at least you can find one
cheap.  You might also see what other cards are compatible with the base OS
- maybe you can find a whole new unit on ebay cheaper than 20?  I would
expect a b card on ebay wouldn't fetch much.

Tony


On 1/25/07, Paul Scott <waterhorse at ultrasw.com> wrote:
>
> Paul Scott wrote:
> > rfs_lists at mac.com wrote:
> >
> >> On Jan 24, 2007, at 4:52 pm, Paul Scott wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>> I just bought a used G3 PowerBook and need a wireless card.  Is it
> >>> true
> >>> that I must use an Airport card?  If so, does anyone have one for a
> >>> reasonable price?
> >>>
> >> Hi Paul,
> >>
> >> Not at all. http://forums.macosxhints.com/showthread.php?t=14799
> >> Seems you'd be better off with a newer card that does 802.11g as well
> >> as b, such as this: http://www.sonnettech.com/product/
> >> aria_extreme.html -- $80.
> >>
> >>
> > Price is more important than 11g at this point.  I would rather pay much
> > less that $80 right now.  I'm looking on eBay right now.
> >
> I'm bidding on an Airport card but I also found that IOXPerts has a
> driver for $20 that seems to work with my Orinoco Silver.  I'll have to
> get near a wireless source to verify.
>
> Paul
>
>
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