Airport card no longer seeing NETGEAR router ??

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Hi everyone - I'm hoping to tap into some serious expertise here.. :)

I've been using a 12" Powerbook for years with a NETGEAR DG834G wireless router/modem. Today I could no longer 'see' the router in the Airport menu. Numerous re-boots (both mac and router which normally resolves the problem) and little luck apart from a few glimmers of neighbour's signals and every now and then a brief sight of my Netgear..

I tried:

Factory reset of router
PMU reset on mac
WEP WPA on/off etc
Different channels on router
Firmware is latest v 2.10.22
Opened battery compartment & fiddled with the card aerial

I even

Bought (now returned) a brand new Netgear router - same issue!

It's all working well with an ethernet cable as a modem, just no 'signal' picked up.. Do Airport cards fry up? I really don't want to spend yet more on my much loved 12" (just put in a fat 160gb HD - wonderful).

Am I missing something really obvious??

Many thanks to all!
 

chscag

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Your Airport card has flown away to "Airport Heaven", never to return again. Seriously, your card has probably died. Replace it or just continue on ethernet.

Regards.
 
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Definetly your card. It's gone. Hopefully it didn't go to "Airport Card H*ll." Sorry about that. I also have no guidance as to were you can go about replacing it, probably the Apple Store I would assume but I can't give you much more than that.
 

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