Subject: Re: Airport and Airport Express on a PB - swappable?
To: Chris Tribo <ctribo@dtcc.edu>
From: None <setient@nova.mycroesoft.net>
List: port-macppc
Date: 05/31/2005 10:02:42
you could sell the aiport express on ebay for 60 dollars or so and buy 
yourself a pcmcia adapter or a usb one.On Tue, 31 May 2005, Chris Tribo 
wrote:

> Date: Tue, 31 May 2005 12:56:18 -0400
> From: Chris Tribo <ctribo@dtcc.edu>
> To: Davide Zanon <d.zanon@infinito.it>
> Cc: port-macppc@NetBSD.org
> Subject: Re: Airport and Airport Express on a PB - swappable?
> 
>
> 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
>> 
>> !DSPAM:429c954591324456614810!
>> 
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