Subject: Re: Airport and Airport Express on a PB - swappable?
To: Davide Zanon <d.zanon@infinito.it>
From: Michael <macallan18@earthlink.net>
List: port-macppc
Date: 06/02/2005 07:42:12
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Hello,

> > A better avenue (if you have something bigger than a 12" Powerbook)
> > is to get a third party wireless PC Card.
>=20
> As a matter of fact, I've got a 12" Powerbook :( so I think I'm going
> to find a new mini-PCI wireless card. As far as I have understood, I
> could simply use an Intel PRO/Wireless 2200 or something like that,
> couldn't I?

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.

have fun
Michael

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