Bluetooth and Airport Extreme card install

Are these user installable options? I am getting a new Mac Pro as an insurance replacement for an older Mac wrecked in a flood. They will only replace with a new Mac if they purchase through their supplier at their reduced cost, but I get the feeling their new replacement will ship to me without these options preinstalled. Is there a way to buy them and install them myself? I have seen documentation for hard drive and PCI card etc. replacement, but not these options. Nor does they seem to be covered in the "working in your Mac" portion of the user manual.
If I can't do it myself, is it possible to have these installed by Apple, or are these options only available when initially ordering your Mac?

I bet most people would say, they could do the installtion thats easy, so true however, lets say you broke somthing on the mother-board would,nt that be so easy and there goes your warranty throught the window its now void, now clap yourself, or even smack yourself, can't believe you,ve even shock yourself. If you buy the parts Apple will do do the installation for about $45-$50 say you take it to the apple store, in the U.K. at the apple store its £25, for installation of Air-port, or air-port /blue-port is the same or a bit more, they done mine it was less than an hour wait, on a busy day, have fun with your new toy.
Fr. Blayzay.

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Airport Extreme Card Install

I recently inherited a PowerMac G5 (approx. 5 years old) that does not register having an airport card. After purchasing an airport extreme card and opening the box to install it, I found a card already in the slot that does not look like the card I bought and is bolted in and cannot be removed. Does anyone know what this is and how I can remove it?

Hi-
I found a card already in the slot that does not look like the card I bought and is bolted in and cannot be removed. Does anyone know what this is and how I can remove it?
From your machine profile (11,2) you have a dual core 2.0 GHz machine which uses a special Airport Extreme/Bluetooth card on a runway card:
http://www.mac-pro.com/Apple-Wireless-Upgrade-Kit-for-Power-Mac-G5-Dual-or-Power -Mac-G5-Quad-MA252G-A
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3096
Don't remove it unless you have the card from the kit that I linked. You can't use a regular Airport Extreme card.
This is the card needed:
http://www.mac-pro.com/s.nl;jsessionid=0a0109491f4310333d8861f84259a44ead5bc7f70 723.e3eSc38LcheTe34Pa38Ta38ObNn0?it=A&id=3365&sc=2&category=454

Mac Pro and Airport Extreme Card

I have a new mac pro and installed the airport extreme card. I cannot see my network but the system tells me the card is on. Any suggestions? I can connect with a direct ethernet connection.

I bought a mac pro last year and went for the wireless option with it. You know the upgrade. Anyway it came as a seperate item and i had to install it myself. It doesn't look anything like the one pictured here, well it just doesn't have a cover like it. So anyway i can't pick up any outside networks and when i share the internet connection with it i have to put my psp right next to the case to get a profoundly amazing 12% signal, Any ideas?

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I just installed an Airport Extreme card on my eMac (USB 2.0). When I try to boot, it gets stuck on the gray Apple screen, with the spinning gray "spokes." The card is pushed as far as it will go into the slot, and the antenna is all the way in as well. When I take the card out, the computer boots up fine. I tried installing the software first, but it doesn't appear to be installed after it does the required restart for new software. I'm not sure if I have the software already...
At any rate, the biggest issue is that it won't boot past the gray screen. Any thoughts? (I have a version of Tiger, though I'm not sure exactly which because I'm sick of the un/install process at the moment, and am staring at the gray screen.)

The card is pushed as far as it will go into the
slot, and the antenna is all the way in as well. When
I take the card out, the computer boots up fine. I
tried installing the software first, but it doesn't
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Hi, I have a 1GHz eMac ATI and had a problem installing my Airport Extreme card as well. It would boot fine, but the card would not connect. It turned out that the card was not seated properly and maybe this is something for you to look at.
If you look at the Airport slot with the card and cover removed you will see the end of a black plastic guide bar on the right of the slot when viewed from the front of the machine. (Assuming the ATI eMac and USB 2.0 are the same in this regard) When the card and the aerial are fully seated home, the silver top of the aerial plug should be just about level with the front end of the black plastic bar, just a whisker or 2 sticking out. If it is more than this (more than say 1-2mm - 1/16th inch) then your card is not far enough in to be connected properly. Believe me I found this out through trial and error and there is not much difference between the right position and not.
It is not just a matter of pushing harder, you need to wiggle it slightly up and down and push firmly with 2 fingers, one on each side so that the force is evenly distributed. Mine needed just a smidgeon more force than what it took to slide the machine back - try it a little bit at a time. Put it up against a wall so it doesn't slide back, but don't apply excessive force. Part of the problem is that is hard to get your fingers in there to do the job.
Hope this helps.

Powermac G5 Dual 2.3 How to add bluetooth and airport extreme ?

Hi,
I have the above computer. I would like to know if it is possible to fit an airport extreme and bluetooth module into the machine retrospectively ?
it is a cost option which was not supplied by my company ?
Any ideas or suggestions ?

All,
I am updating the question, so that it can be on record.
I manage to get hold of one from ebay. To check that it is the correct unit you need to look at the bottom of the base unit to identify the model. The model no. would give EMC part no. 2023. The EMC part no would have to match with the read me guide.
There are no installation instruction in the guide so i had to work things out (and you need nimble fingers !).
The unit has a bluetooth module and the airport extreme attached via two black screws. The bluetooth module fits on the airport extreme card, which in turn plugs on to the motherboard.
You need to remove the fan.
The bluetooth module is held to the card via two black screws, undo the screws and take the bluetooth away from extreme card.
On the bluetooth module there is two connectors connect the wire from the motherboard on to the module, then carefully plug the bluetooth module back on to the card and then screw the black screws on to the card.
If you miss a screw then do not worry as it works okay !
( I had a plumber come around reqgrding some work, so I lost concentration, when pluging in the module)
Place the module on to the board.
Place the fan back.
Restart the machine. The aiport extreme/bluetooth module would be picked up automatically.
It took me a couple of hours to work everthing out. The hardest part is to get hold of the module.
any questions email me on [email protected] Note that i am giving the 'advice' on best efforts basis without any liability.
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Powermac G5 1.8 Mac OS X (10.4.2)

Linxsys and Airport Extreme card settings

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Any and all assistance with air port card is welcome and I can not get the unit to find the wireless setting.
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The AirPort Extreme card is a 802.11b/g-compatible wireless device...as is, most likely, your Linksys wireless router. No special settings are required to use the AirPort card with Linksys. Are you having trouble connecting?

Powerbook will not startup with airport extreme card installed

I have a 2 year old powerbook using 10.3.9 an djust of late when my airport card is in, The computer just sends me to the open Firmware right after i turn it on.when i type mac-boot it comes up with a broken folder icon. however when i take my card out i dont have a problem. is there a wa i can ues my computer and the airport at the same time? what do you think i should do.

it is a 867 mhz g4 with 256 mb ddr ram. 40 gb hd and
a combo drive. i hope that is helpfull.
This PowerBook requires the original Airport card, you can not use the Airport Extreme card in that PowerBook, any attempt to do so could result in damage to both the card and the PowerBook.
Either change the AE card for an original Airport or use a third party 802.11g card in the cardbus slot.
iFelix

Airport extreme card install in 2008 mac pro

How do i install the airport extreme internal card in 2008 mac pro 2.8 dual?

Done, your link was ok!:) difficult to plug the tiny wires...on a Mac Pro early 2008, you must plug wire 1 and 3, the longer one at the bottom, the smaller one at the top....worked right away....p.s : take a little time to clean your Mac, you'll be amazed with the amount of dust !

No boot with airport extreme card installed

a little history have had the no chime, no lower slot, memory problem fixed once under applecare. they replaced the logic board. much later the same problem has returned, but now i'm way out of warranty. so i removed the 500 mb sticks from both slots and installed a 1 gig in the upper slot. chime returned and computer normally until now. suddenly it will only boot if at all once in ten times to firmware and gives me the choice to type shut down or mac-boot. typing the latter also shuts down the computer. I learned that removing the airport card returns the computer to normal operation but with wifi of coarse. i can plug directly into the cable modem and internet then also works. i have tried all an known good airport with the same results. removing the airport card seems to be the only way to get it to boot. any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. thanks

Since there seems to be a hardware problem where your Powerbook won't work with even a good Airport card, you could take it out and install a separate wireless card in the card slot accessible from the outside of the Powerbook. If you google "cardbus mac wireless card" you'll find some choices.

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So I've read just about every thread that I can find on this, and there's been so much discrepancy on which antenna wires to connect. I've tried just about every combination, and the card is showing up in the system profiler (en2), but when I click "Turn Airport On" in Network Preferences, nothing happens. At all. Anyone have any suggestions? Is there an airport update that I need to download? Thanks!

You probably don't need an update. But you have to enable it before you can turn it on. I suggest you do the following:
* Reboot and clear PRAM (CMD-OPT-p-r at boot time).
* Open the Network Preferences panel and highlight the Airport.
* Click on the gear icon below the list and make the airport active.
* Reboot.
This will probably solve your problem.

EMac Airport Extreme card doesn't fit???

I have tried and tried to get the card in the slot and just won't work. I have both an Airport and Airport Extreme card and it's obvious that the Extreme card is the right one. Here's the problem, inside the slot at the back, you can see 2 rows of prongs (male). This card is male as well. I think there is something missing inside my slot? The card just lays in there and you can't get it to reach the back. I think maybe there is a plastic piece that is supposed to be hooked over the prongs? Help?! Thanks!

Hey Rob,
OK found a 700 here's a pic of the bay:
http://s291.photobucket.com/albums/ll306/spudnuty/?action=view&current=eMac700Ai rportcardreceiver.jpg
and with the Old Airport installed:
http://s291.photobucket.com/albums/ll306/spudnuty/?action=view&current=eMac700Ai rportcardinstalled.jpg
It took a bit of wiggling and jiggling to get it to go in there. So firmly but not with a lot of force. If it won't go see if there are parts of the metal guides on either side are bent in, preventing it from sliding smoothly in.
Richard

Airport Extreme Cards File Sharing

Can two Macs with Airport Extreme cards installed file share? Can this be done with only the cards and without a base station?

Yes, file sharing is the same regardless if you are connected via Ethernet or wireless.
Can this be done with only the cards and without a base station?
Yes you will just need to use on of the Macs to create a wireless network. See KB 166640, Setting up a Computer-to-Computer network.

Airport Extreme Card (will not automatically connect to home network)

Running OSX (10.4.7) on a G5 2.0 DualCore. I just had an Airport Extreme Card installed by Apple a week ago. Everything was working fine with WiFi ( I use a Lynksys Router. But oddly now when I cold boot up, the Airport Extreme will not automatically connect to my home network. The little Airport icon on the upper right is always greyed out ( even though clicking on the icon... says that Airport is "On" ). So I now have to manually select my home network everytime I boot up. The first week or so though, I didn't have to do this...it just automtically connected to my home network. I made no changes to the router settings, nor the Network prefs.

I have been able to get my home network running with simultaneous access to the internet with the MacMini and the PB G4 via a WL router (Netgear WGR614v4 with four ethernet ports).
This was the process:
1a) Turned off airport on both computers.
1b) Turned off both compters and
1c) disconnected the router from the cable modem.
a) Disconnected ethernet cable from WL router to Macmini.
2b) Powered down the router for 10 seconds.
3a) Keeping both computers unpowered,repowered router and pressed the reset button (behind an unmarked tiny hole in the back of the router) then re-connected it to cable modem. Waited 30 - 40 seconds until internet service lights flickered green.
3b) Reconnected ethernet cable to MacMini and turned on power for MacMini. No Airport running. With administrator privilege I configured in Syst. Prefs. "Sharing" folder Internet access using "Built in Ethernet" port for computers running "Airport".
4) Turned Airport network on in MacMini and started browser.
Result: Internet connection established.
5a) Powered up PB G4 and then turned Airport on.
5b) In Syst. Prefs. in "Sharing" folder turned Internet Sharing off. But set "Share your connection from Airport" to computers using: Airport with check-mark. (No Built-in Ethernet and no Built-in FireWire!)
5c)Started browser. Result: Internet connection established.
6a) In the Finder window of both computers I clicked on "Go" in toolbar and looked for the name of the other computer, which were listed as alias besides the "Library" and "Servers" aliases. Clicking on the computer alias brought up the 'Networked Globe' and a control button "Connect".
6b) Clicking on "Connect" brought up the mounted drive of the other computer.
Result: Wireless network operational.
PS: I don't dare yet using encryption for the airport network. That's for another day.
Power Book G4, MacMini Mac OS X (10.4.7)

HELP! How do I configure an airport extreme card , so I can set up AEX base

Hi
I have had an iBook for a few years now with an Airport Extreme Card installed but not configured. Have just bought s/h Airport Extreme base station (cone shape) to go wireless, but am having MAJOR probs configuring the AEC to start with so I can set up the base station!
It is asking me for a Client ID, to set Airport to DHCP?? this means nothing to me...
How do I configure the card initially??
Can anyone help, PLEEEASE??????

purplemouse, Welcome to the discussion area!
There is absolutely nothing you need to do to configure the AirPort Extreme card. After you install the card and boot the iBook, the OS recognizes the card.
It is asking me for a Client ID...
What is asking you for a client ID? This is not a normal prompt. What application are you running?

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