does your powerbook have pcmcia.  some do.  you should check.
On Thu, 2 Jun 
2005, Davide Zanon wrote:

> Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2005 19:31:50 +0000
> From: Davide Zanon <d.zanon@infinito.it>
> To: Michael <macallan18@earthlink.net>
> Cc: port-macppc@NetBSD.org
> Subject: Re: Airport and Airport Express on a PB - swappable?
> 
> On Thursday 02 June 2005 11:42, Michael wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> Err, I'd be /very/ surprised if a standard MiniPCI card would fit into
>> an Airport Extreme socket - sure, the chip is a PCI device but the
>> connector doesn't look like MiniPCI and as far as I know there's no
>> PowerBook with a MiniPCI slot.
>>
>> Here's a picture of such a card:
>> http://web18.server-drome.net/files/Intel%20Pro-W%202100%20LAN%2011MBit.jpg
>> See the missing gap in the middle of the connector? And the card is
>> wider. Maybe such a card can be doctored into a PowerBook, but this
>> would require some serious soldering I guess.
>
> wow, I obviously hadn't understood anything :( Fantastic... thank you, I would
> have bought something completely unusable if you didn't help me :)
> So, I'd have to find a supported USB wifi card (there aren't so many, I think)
> or ... or? Is there anything else I can do (apart from soldering)? (Why the
> errrrr is apple hadrware so close and proprietary..?)
>
>> have fun
>> Michael
>
> Thank you very much :)
> david
>