Subject: Re: Airport and Airport Express on a PB - swappable?
To: Davide Zanon <d.zanon@infinito.it>
From: Chris Tribo <ctribo@dtcc.edu>
List: port-macppc
Date: 05/31/2005 12:56:18
I assume you mean Airport Extreme, not Airport Express.

Airport extreme is Mini-PCI and the Airport is a PCMCIA like card, it  
is not possible. You could however replace your card with another  
Mini-PCI based wireless card that doesn't use a Broadcom chipset.

On May 31, 2005, at 12:47 PM, Davide Zanon wrote:

> Hi all!
> I know this is not a NetBSD-related issue, but surely this is a  
> place where
> people know well things :)
> I'd like to throw away my Airport Express card, found inside my  
> PowerBook G4,
> for the well-known reason of no driver available for any OS other  
> than the
> proprietary ones. Someone told me that I could take it out of the  
> pb and put
> a simple, supported Airport inside. Some other told me that it is  
> impossible.
> Which version is right? What can I do?
>
> Thank you very much :)
>
> david
>
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