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Blue-K
Hello. Like you see in my Sig, I have an Acer Aspire 5715Z, with an Atheros AR5007EG Wireless-Card...Everybody knows that this card doesn't work with Leopard, so I looked for an other Card and found one here: http://cgi.ebay.com/Apple-Airport-Extreme-...1QQcmdZViewItem. I'm a little Noob in this, so I've got two questions:

1) Can I "install" this Card on my Laptop and will it work on Leopard, Vista and Linux?
2) Will my Internet-Speed slow down?

So, many Thanks in Advance.
Synaesthesia
An apple airport extreme? I don't know, I'm don't think you can plug that into a laptop. but I know if you buy a Dell Truemobile 1390 or 1505 for your laptop it works perfectly and gets detected as airport.

Just find out if your Acer uses mini-pci or mini pci-express...
BigPimpin
Link is dead.

After you find a card that will work make sure it will FIT into the space you have. Some miniPCI cards are longer than others.
Blue-K
willy728 has also the same Laptop like me, and he wrote:

"Finally, what to do with WIFI or LAN? My solution, at the moment is to buy an apple mini PCI-e airport (like used in macbook pros), and change with the one is instaled. (four screws at the bottom open a tap, where you can find the mini PCI-e, and also the memory modules)."

Edit: censored2.gif Ebay...all the links doesn't work...I mean this card:

Apple Airport Extreme Wifi Mini PCI-E Card 802.11n 300M


I'm now looking if my laptop has an mini-PCI...
Look here for nfos of my card.
Blue-K
So, now I found Dell W-Lan Cards here and here. Are they Dell Truemobile 1390 and 1505? It looks like that, but it also looks like they won't work on a "Mac" . Sorry that is a bad question, I know, but I want to be 100% shure that it is a working card for my Laptop.

Thanks in Advance.
BuildSmart
I've got a new Apple 11n miniPCIe Airport card I would be willing to sell you, make me an offer.

willy782
Hi Blue-K

Yes, it works.
Some days ago, I bought one, install it and 'voila', now I have Airport WIFI in my Acer.

I don't know why, the only trouble was with drivers, I need to reinstall OSX to make it work. Perhaps, as I tried many other software fixes, I lost them.

Now, I'm working on LAN and Connexant FAX/Modem drivers. But I'm not very lucky...

Regards,
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