Fixing Antenna for the airport card

I am trying to fix the antemma cable to the airport extreme card that I just install (power mac G5), but the connetion simply can't fit (2 small cables at the in side of of the G5 computer - is this correcti cable?)
please advice, thanks for the help
koh

One point to note: the current PowerMac G5 model (ie the one with the dual-core processor) cannot be used with the Airport Extreme card sold by the Apple store and dealers. This PowerMac G5 model requires a wireless interface adapter that is factory installed - and if yours was sold without that card installed, you need to order it as a service part from an Apple dealer.

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The Airport card in my late 2008 unibody macbook has broken and I'd like to buy another online, what is the part number?

Welcome to Apple Discussions.
Click on the Apple in the upper left corner of the screen, then About this Mac, then More Info, then find Network, and click on AirPort. That will give you details.
Why did you conclude that the card itself is broken instead of just a network configuration problem?

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Hardware Overview:
Machine Model: iMac
CPU Type: PowerPC 750 (33.11)
Number Of CPUs: 1
CPU Speed: 700 MHz
L2 Cache (per CPU): 256 KB
Memory: 512 MB
Bus Speed: 100 MHz
Boot ROM Version: 4.1.9f1
Serial Number: YM1360GRLFD
running on dsl via airport. airport signal started to fail intermittently after a few minutes. this started after son got a power book after his crt with airport failed on an oldert crt model.
called mac asssistance and for a fee they could not help me other than the old move/turn off the portable phones. the thing always worked before with the portable phones nearby so they suggested "external" interference. I asked about airport extreme and they said yeah, try that, more robust at zeroing in on frequency. bought airport extreme after first consulting genius at genius bar in clarendon who assured me it is the built in antenna not the airport card. he had no airport card on hand to test my computer (does not do obsolete thank you). he was flip and certain and suggested i just junk the thing since the repair is very expensive or try an external antenna from quickertech which apparently does not exist (antenna not company). i can get signal using ethernet connection and can get the airport to work sometimes when the computer is cold. as the session contnues, the signal fades and stops. i am exasperated that mac has dropped support for this product so soon after it made them millions. anybody had the same problem and found a solution? otherwise my next step is the repair facility. this is a sweet machine not going to a dumpster in the name of conspicuous consumption.

This is a duplicate post. I replied to your other post last week and you didn't respond to that reply. Basically i said there that I have never heard of the antenna failing in an apple computer. A solution however may be an external ethernet wireless bridge since they have an external antenna. Perhaps others have more to add though.
Did you actually try turning off any nearby phones? You seem to dismiss the idea because it always worked before, but they could be contributing to interference, or someone elses phone could be. What about moving the computer? Does it help if the computer is closer to the base station?
Dropped support so soon? Airport hasn't been made in a couple of years now, and its not like its not supported at all, they just don't make them at all. Apple is glad to help you if you pay them for the privelege, same as for every other product they make. All the software they amke works with it just fine, which is kind fo the definition of supporting the technology.

MacBook 2008 wifi suddenly stopped working and says no wifi hardware. Took it to an apple shop, they said it could be the airport card but wouldn't do anymore then that. Any help on how to fix this? How do I know if it is the airport card or not?

MacBook 2008 wifi suddenly stopped working and says no wifi hardware. Took it to an apple shop, they said it could be the airport card but wouldn't do anymore then that.
Any help on how to fix this? How do I know if it is the airport card or not?
is there anything else I can try first?
thanks

If the technician at the shop is competent, he has given you a diagnosis that should have identified the problem. You could run the Apple Hardware Test to verify the findings:
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201257
Note the Apple Hardware Test is not definitive.
Go to the iFixit.com and Powerbookmedic.com web sites. They have parts and installation instructions. To install an Airport card is fairly easy.
Ciao.

Where can I buy the airport card for the G3 ibook?

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I recently purchased an old ibook G3 and am wanting to use it wirelessly. I can't seem to locate the airport card that is needed to make it work. Can i buy it from the mac store online? Also, i have the airport extreme at home...will it work on that network with the airport card?? Cheers

Hi, and welcome to Apple Discussions.
No, the original AirPort card the iBook needs is no longer available from Apple.
I just checked these links for the original AirPort card today (ranked in order of price, lowest to highest, shipping not figured):
http://www.dvwarehouse.com/Apple-Original-AirPort-Wireless-Card-802.11B-p-31366. html
http://www.synaptech.com/catalog/index.php?mainpage=index&cPath=4953
http://www.powerbookguy.com/xcart/catalog/Airport-Cards-price0-p-1-c-507.html
http://www.expercom.com/productdetail.html?PRODUCTID=305851
http://www.macrecycling.com/ibook-g3-c-18.html
http://techrestore.com/xcart/product.php?productid=16174
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Good luck with the iBook.

Substitute for original Airport card

I have a DVD Special iMac with a dead ethernet port. I had been using it with a USB ethernet adapter. Going through the junk in the closet, I found the Airport adapter card that came with the Airport card for my iBook and the old graphite base station that went with it. Since Apple dropped support of the graphite base station with OS X Tiger, it went in the closet and a new Netgear WiFi router went into service. It happens that the guts of a graphite base station is a Lucent WaveLan Silver PCMCIA card. I got to wondering if the WaveLan card would work in the iMac adapter. The WaveLan card is longer than an Airport card since it has an antenna built in, but a bit of snipping with a wire cutter removed part of the plastic bracket on the adapter which was in the way. There's an antenna jack under a tiny plug on the card, and lo! the iMac's antenna plug fits it. I plugged it all together and plugged the iMac back in to the wall.
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The wireless range should be much greater than that. It could be a fault of the iMac, it could be a fault of the wireless router, or it could be that wireless interference is destroying the wireless signal and drastically shortening the range.

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JustSwitchedToMac wrote:
I am traveling overseas and all of the sudden my AirPort card won't function. It says "Not configured" and I have not been able to turn it back on in order to log into WIFI networks.
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I'm in italy with a MacBook bought at apple store in italy, I've around my house 8 different wireless network all in channel 6 or 11 , so to avoid interference I've set my router to channel 13 (in europe the wifi channel are from 1 to 13, in the Us from 1 to 11) i've no problem with my iMac 21" (but in the system profiler it tells me as country code FR instead of IT), but every time I turn on my macbook the country code of the airport card is set to US, so I can link only on network on channels from 1 to 11, what can I do to enable the last two channel on the macbook?

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Anybody know what size are the screw's to keep place the Airport card?

Hi Folk's
Anybody know what size are the screw's to keep place the Airport card? as I got a card here that I've had sitting around and now I've set up wireless network that reach out to where my Mac Pro is located but I don't have any screw that fit arrgh !
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Hi,
I purchased an Apple MB988ZM/A Airport Extreme Wireless Upgrade Kit for my 2.93GHz 8-Core 2009 Nehalem Mac Pro a couple of months ago.
The kit includes 2 screws inside a transparent pack. The description on the pack reads:
"HH111009 603-9823-A Assembly Screws China".
The screws are approximately 4.5mm in overall length, of which about 3mm is the thread.
The thread appears to be fine, and the round head of the screw takes a Philips 00 screwdriver tip.
I have checked one of the screws with my "screw gauge" (I am a very keen DIYer!), and its diameter measures 1.5mm.
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Bill

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If the Airport card is removable... why can't we put a new "N" version in?

Why can't we put a new card that supports "N" in our recently bougth (under a year old) computers?
What I dispise is that I personally own 15 Macs and not all of them are the latest models. So this leaves me with a "mixed" network with many of them using "G" cards.
This slows things down, and in the case of my home network (5 macs including a trusty G4 imac that is in the kitchen serving up music throughout the house) I feel that I will never be able to use the abilities of the "N" networks
This could lead to the failure of the iTV / Apple TV product for many of us. I am a Mac addict from day one and buy the latest models of everything, but held back on this because it would not work well on a mixed network.
I hope someone at Apple reads this or realizes this. We need to be able to pop out the Airport card, pay for a new one and pop in the "N" one. This allows us to stay current with the new technology.
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