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Graphite Airport Base
Posted by: bibilit on 2011-07-22 13:04:05 Just scored a nice Graphite Airport Base. ;D Unfortunately,the card itself is an Orinoco Silver, not the Airport one. But the base is powering up and apparently not suffering from the capacitors failure.
Posted by: LCGuy on 2011-07-22 16:36:55 Thats right, they are indeed supposed to have a WaveLAN PCMCIA card inside, not an AirPort card.
Posted by: CompactMacLover on 2011-07-22 18:43:18 If you want another wavelan card for your OS 9 PowerBooks.. I got one you can have for 10 bucks.. Works fine with the Airport Drivers
Posted by: Hrududu on 2011-07-22 20:03:30 I've still got my graphite base station here and in service. Great little unit. Its handy to have a device thats friendly with older Apple hardware.
Posted by: bibilit on 2011-07-23 01:17:59 If you want another wavelan card for your OS 9 PowerBooks.. I got one you can have for 10 bucks.. Works fine with the Airport Drivers Thanks, already have a spare wavelan card, useful to get my 5300 on line (pretty slow but nice for a pre-airport powerbook) Indeed, apparently, most Broadcom BCM 43xx chipset cards seems to be recognised as Airport cards. Thats right, they are indeed supposed to have a WaveLAN PCMCIA card inside, not an AirPort card Apparently, some were supplied with the Airport instead of the Wavelan / Orinoco, but should be a few. Its handy to have a device thats friendly with older Apple hardware. there is a possibility to connect non-airport equipped computers apparently (using an Ethernet cable) anybody here using that setup ? (can be useful for a Powermac G3 or G3 Imac)
Posted by: z180 on 2011-07-24 00:24:18 This is just a disguised 486 router + wlan card development was a bit rushed.
Posted by: bibilit on 2011-09-03 08:48:14 I am still trying to figure how to connect a non-airport compliant computer with the ABS. I want to connect the ABS to an G3 Imac or similar, using a crossover cable, but unfortunately nothing seems to work right now.
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