AirPort card not seeing AirPort Base

[Roberto]

Hi all,

I have a problem: I bought on eBay an AirPort card for my third iBook (the
other two already sport one each), but when equipped with this card, the
iBook can't manage to find the AirPort Base.

The strange thing is that it sees the AirPort cards of the other two iBooks
(if I create a network through these), and works even as a software AirPort
Base if properly set.

I tried this same "new" AirPort card on all three iBooks, and the results
are the same: the new card is selectively blind towards the AirPort Base,
but sees the cards of the other two iBooks (if a network is created). Of
course, the other two cards regularly see the AirPort base.

All three AirPort cards have the same model number on the big label with the
AirPort logo on it (825-4593-A... at least I PRESUME this is a model
number), but while the two "old" cards have just a blank, totally white
label on the other side, the new one has a label there full of things
written on it (a S/N, an AirPort ID, a little "Approved by iDA Singapore"
stick, another little "Agréé Ministére chargé des telecommunications" stick,
and some other alfanumeric strings, among which a "128 bits" mark). This is
the only difference between the cards, at least visually.

Any suggestion about how to let this Airport card see the AirPort Base?

By the way, the AirPort Base is a Graphite one, while the iBooks are a
300MHz Blueberry, a 600MHz and an 800MHz iceBook. And please excuse my
English! :-)



Thanks in advance,

Roberto Giannotta
Trieste, Italy