question about wi-fi

[Cian Duffy]

On 26/03/06, Paul Higgins <higg0008 at tc.umn.edu> wrote:
>
> Sorry to be getting back to this thread a little late...
>
> So the (non-Extreme) Airport slot inside the iBooks is a regular PCMCIA
> slot?
> So I can use a card other than an Apple Airport in my iBook (900 MHz G3),
> then?


Its not entirely regular - the Lucent ORiNOCO is known to work it but I've
never heard of anything else working, plus it suffers from a big problem of
being under the keyboard... The Airport card itself is shaped identically to
a Conditional Access Module (satellite hardware), using the card-reader
recess to allow the antenna cable to slot in in a more limited space.

Cian


Also, has anyone tried out KWifimanager in various locations with wireless
> access?  I'm going to have to install 4.1 to try it, as it doesn't work at
> all in 4.0.1.  It would be great to have wireless set up so that I don't
> have
> to reboot each time I end up in a new wireless zone.
>
> -PRH
>
> On Friday 24 March 2006 08:50, Cian Duffy wrote:
>
> > There is a -slight- chance he meant the hidden PCMCIA port inside the
> > laptop that the Airport plugs in to ;) The iBooks have never had a
> PCMCIA
> > port other than this one.
> >
> > The Airport Express is modified mini-PCI, not PCMCIA, so its not
> possible
> > to use a non-AE card in it.
>
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