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Airport Card Not Found - iBook G4
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<blockquote data-quote="jptl" data-source="post: 1218934" data-attributes="member: 14443"><p><strong>"No Airport Card Found" issue fixed!</strong></p><p></p><p><em>I know that this is an old thread, but I'll weigh in anyway:</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><strong>'Vintage' G3 466 Clamshell running OS X 10.4.11 with OEM Airport card (a true workhorse/beater that gets attention where ever I go</strong>).</p><p>One day when on the local ice rink's WiFi I completely lost my Airport icon. When I searched for it in System Profiler/Network/Airport Card it said something like "Hardware not found" - or "none". Basically the system wasn't seeing the card. I assumed hardware issue, powered down and unplugged/unseated then replugged/reseated the card. Powered up and still nothing. </p><p>I took the card out and tried it in another Clamshell. It worked fine. Not much else I could check from a hardware standpoint (bad logic board, etc)</p><p>So I tried what I could from a software standpoint. Repaired preferences, reset PRAM, pulled the battery & reinstalled, even uninstalled an airport component .kext kernel extension in the OS that supposedly corrects this issue.....all to no avail.</p><p>Since I don't have the OS X 10.4 discs anymore, I couldn't do a clean install.</p><p>So I figured I'd live with no wireless connectivity. Since this is basically my iTunes music server, I started to miss this Clamshell on my network.</p><p>Then I decided to buy a Mac compatible wireless network adapter: the Airlink 101 (AWLL6075). Less than $20 on Amazon, IIRC. A tiny little Wireless N adapter. The installation instructions were pretty straight forward, but it wouldn't fully install - I'm guessing because this iBook isn't wireless N compatible.</p><p>Anyway, I couldn't get through the install, but an amazing thing happened: my Airport card is back! </p><p>This isn't coincidental. Something became reconfigured/repaired in the Airport system settings when I partially installed this adapter. The adapter doesn't need to be plugged in and I'm back at my Automatic network settings. The Airport works as it did when all was well. It's possible that simply installing the driver for this adapter did the trick. I don't know.</p><p>What I do know is that my Airport is back to normal and I have a little network adapter that could be used in a newer Mac or PC sometime down the road.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="jptl, post: 1218934, member: 14443"] [b]"No Airport Card Found" issue fixed![/b] [I]I know that this is an old thread, but I'll weigh in anyway: [/I] [B]'Vintage' G3 466 Clamshell running OS X 10.4.11 with OEM Airport card (a true workhorse/beater that gets attention where ever I go[/B]). One day when on the local ice rink's WiFi I completely lost my Airport icon. When I searched for it in System Profiler/Network/Airport Card it said something like "Hardware not found" - or "none". Basically the system wasn't seeing the card. I assumed hardware issue, powered down and unplugged/unseated then replugged/reseated the card. Powered up and still nothing. I took the card out and tried it in another Clamshell. It worked fine. Not much else I could check from a hardware standpoint (bad logic board, etc) So I tried what I could from a software standpoint. Repaired preferences, reset PRAM, pulled the battery & reinstalled, even uninstalled an airport component .kext kernel extension in the OS that supposedly corrects this issue.....all to no avail. Since I don't have the OS X 10.4 discs anymore, I couldn't do a clean install. So I figured I'd live with no wireless connectivity. Since this is basically my iTunes music server, I started to miss this Clamshell on my network. Then I decided to buy a Mac compatible wireless network adapter: the Airlink 101 (AWLL6075). Less than $20 on Amazon, IIRC. A tiny little Wireless N adapter. The installation instructions were pretty straight forward, but it wouldn't fully install - I'm guessing because this iBook isn't wireless N compatible. Anyway, I couldn't get through the install, but an amazing thing happened: my Airport card is back! This isn't coincidental. Something became reconfigured/repaired in the Airport system settings when I partially installed this adapter. The adapter doesn't need to be plugged in and I'm back at my Automatic network settings. The Airport works as it did when all was well. It's possible that simply installing the driver for this adapter did the trick. I don't know. What I do know is that my Airport is back to normal and I have a little network adapter that could be used in a newer Mac or PC sometime down the road. [/QUOTE]
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