DrP Posted August 7, 2010 Share Posted August 7, 2010 Ok so I haven't been able to find anything and fear the answer is no but wanted to ask before I put this to rest. I have a Airport Card (PCMCIA) from a old iMac G4. Then I have iDeneb (OSX 10.5.8) installed on a IBM Thinkpad T43 laptop. I have the cardbus slots on the laptop working as I can insert CompactFlash card and see it mount on the desktop and view its contents. So I thought I give the Airport Card a try but it is not detected. I figure this is because 1) Its not supported in x86 OSX or 2) Dont have right kext's to make it work. Does anyone know if I could get this to work on my laptop for WiFi use? Here is a link to Apple page with device I talk about. http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1621 Cheers! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
riws Posted August 7, 2010 Share Posted August 7, 2010 Are you sure its PCMCIA? Apple Airport slot is similar to PCMCIA but not compatible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrP Posted August 7, 2010 Author Share Posted August 7, 2010 Are you sure its PCMCIA? Apple Airport slot is similar to PCMCIA but not compatible. Well I thought PCMCIA releates to the physical hardware and the Airport Card fits into the card slot in my laptop. however I dont really know mac hardware well. Plus I suspect you could be right in that the Airport Card (what ever it is) is not compatible with PC hardware. Guess I am curious if anyone has made a hacked driver to make such things work on a Hackint0sh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldtopman Posted August 7, 2010 Share Posted August 7, 2010 I'm %99 sure that that is PCMCIA. I owned a Powerbook G3 Firewire (Pismo) and it had one of those. The interior slot you put the card into is a PCMCIA slot facing the other way on top of the exterior one (That laptop breaks a lot so I know where everything is). I owned a Buffalo wireless PCMCIA card and it was recognized in OSX as an AirPort card. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
riws Posted August 7, 2010 Share Posted August 7, 2010 Well I thought PCMCIA releates to the physical hardware and the Airport Card fits into the card slot in my laptop. however I dont really know mac hardware well. Plus I suspect you could be right in that the Airport Card (what ever it is) is not compatible with PC hardware. Guess I am curious if anyone has made a hacked driver to make such things work on a Hackint0sh. From Wiki: AirPort interface The original AirPort interface card resembles a PC Card device and has a very similar form factor. The card can physically fit in an actual PCMCIA slot, and PC Cards can fit in an AirPort slot, but the electrical interface is not idenetical. AirPort cards do not work in PCMCIA slots, and third-party PC cards usually do not work in a Mac's AirPort slot. I'm %99 sure that that is PCMCIA. I owned a Powerbook G3 Firewire (Pismo) and it had one of those. The interior slot you put the card into is a PCMCIA slot facing the other way on top of the exterior one (That laptop breaks a lot so I know where everything is). I owned a Buffalo wireless PCMCIA card and it was recognized in OSX as an AirPort card. The Buffalo card was an Airport Compatible third-party wireless card Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrP Posted August 7, 2010 Author Share Posted August 7, 2010 I'm %99 sure that that is PCMCIA. I owned a Powerbook G3 Firewire (Pismo) and it had one of those. The interior slot you put the card into is a PCMCIA slot facing the other way on top of the exterior one (That laptop breaks a lot so I know where everything is). I owned a Buffalo wireless PCMCIA card and it was recognized in OSX as an AirPort card. Out of interest do you remember/know the details/specs of your buffalo PCMCIA card? Maybe the issue I am having with this Apple Airport card is that its just stuffed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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