[G4] Which airport card for a Power Mac G4 Mirrored Drives

B G briang113 at pacbell.net
Sat Aug 23 13:48:37 PDT 2008


Yes you need the original Airport card.

There are some USB both B and G that work with 3rd party software.

Of course that machine is USB 1.0 so not screaming fast.

There used to some 3rd party PCI cards available,

Any reason you cannot use the built in hardwired port?


BG
On Aug 23, 2008, at 11:35 AM, Jonathan MIller wrote:

> I just inherited an old Power Mac G4 Mirrored Drives model.  Has  
> 10.4 on it.  No airport card in it.  Need to connect to my home  
> 802.11 net.  Ordered the Airport Extreme Card but doesn't seem to  
> fit.  Either I need the original old 802.11b Airport Card or an  
> adapter of some kind.  Does anyone know for sure?
>
> Thank you.  (By the way, I am in the process of converting my entire  
> household of 8 machines to Linux and Mac and this is the start.   
> We're done with Windows.)
>
>
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