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hi it's me again. i finally got the nerve to take the airport card out of my 2000 imac g3 when i installed it on my ibook calmshell. i took it to my libary to test the signal. i regestered a singal and a somewhat decent signal (somewhere between an eigth to a quartar at best.) when i try to go to yahoo using icab 3 it gets to the fav icon bar and then it says that it cannot load the sever. i checked the tcp/ip settings and changed it from dchp to boot ip and when i tried to load icab 3 again my whole computer just froze. if anbody know what i should do it would be greatly apreactecd.
Thank You

Kanari,
I don't think you should give up on your Airport card just yet. Was the card working OK in your iMac before you removed it? I had trouble with bad Airport signal strength in my Clamshell until I discovered that the connector cable wasn't plugged completely into the card. At that point it's basically working without an antennae. Make sure it's snapped in well and that the card is pushed fully into the card slot before you clip the retainer back into place.
OS 10.4.11 (Tiger with all of the updates) works well in these machines and will still support the latest version of Firefox or Safari browsers for secure browsing. Tiger requires at least 256MB of RAM to work. You can upgrade the clamshells to 576 MB of RAM with a 512MB PC133 or PC100, contrary to the old official Apple specs. They couldn't even conceive of improvements in memory speed back then. A really great place to buy quality memory for this machine is at Other World Computing
http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/memory/iBooks-PowerBooks/G3-iBook/
Good luck Kanari
Feel free to email me about the Tiger OS if you'd like.
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