Indigo ibook and airport

I have an Indigo ibook that I won on ebay. The computer has been great. However, the airport stopped working. I took a look inside and discovered an "engineered" airport card. I unplugged it and plugged it back in but it still doesn't work and the computer doesn't recognize that there is an airport card installed. I purchased a working "original" airport card from ebay and installed it. However, this is not working either. Any ideas? Thanks

Airport Card: Watch the installation video at
http://www.info.apple.com/usen/cip/html/ibook/ibook-apc.cip.mov.html
The airport barcode side has to be face up.
When you place the card in slot, you have to push it down so that it goes right to the bottom of the slot (not too gently)
From time to time there are RAM shields on Ebay (10$ with shipping)

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I have an old (500 MHz PowerPC G3; 384 MB SDRAM) that can only go as far as OS 10.4.11. I use verizon dsl router/modem with airport capabilities to connect to the internet. My other computer is an iMac running 10.6.4. I've never had a problem connecting the iMac with airport using the verizon Actiontek GT704-WG and until last month did not have a problem connecting my lil old iBook the same way (using WEP). Now I can no longer connect my iBook with airport (iMac is fine). The verizon Mac "techs" are fairly clueless in dealing with older Macs.
Can't afford a new laptop.
Anyone know what I can do (use WPA?) as far as settings go. Is my processor/RAM/OS the prob? Can't think why as it was it working before but something outside of my equipment seems to have changed which now will not allow my iBook airport access.
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Does the iBook work if you turn off encryption?
Does the iBook work with other wireless networks (such as coffee shops)?
Once in a great while an original AirPort Card fails. (It happened to me once.) If you could check it out with another network to make sure it is something in your home connection at fault, it would eliminate the possibility that the AirPort Card has failed.

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I have an iBook G4 and I use Airport Express to get online. Plus I have another unit as a repeater or extender throughout the house.
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If I go w/ the Airport Extreme, will that work w/ my old iBook G4?

I am going to buy a new Macbook in about 2 weeks. Will the Airport Express work w/ the Macbook or should I go w/ the Airport Extreme?
The new MacBook will work with either base station.
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Yes, the iBook will work with either as well.

Intermittent connection between iBook and Airport Extreme Base Station

I have a friend with an iBook set up with the Airport Extreme system, they also have a Denon stereo that it is playing through. However, when the music is playing, it keeps cutting out every 5-10 seconds and is intermittent. On other occasions, when the router & base station is left switched on, it plays fine. Does anyone have a reason for this intermittent playing, and a possible solution? Many thanks,

Check out this Apple article to see if it will help.

Problem connecting to public wifi hotspot using ibook and airport

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I have a brand new iBook G4, replacing an iBook G3. At home I use it to connect wirelessly or wired with my Netgear router. No problems.
Yesterday I tried to access a public, unsecured wifi hotspot in a local cafe. There were two other people there using the net, both using iBooks (high Mac density, it seems!).
Whatever I did, I simply couldn't connect. First, using the same Location I use at home (defined to only use Airport), I could see the named network, but when I selected it I got the 'could not connect' dialog. Retried, no luck.
I then created a new location, configured that to use Airport. Same problem.
I then created a new network name, and tried again. No luck. Using this last option, it actually asked me for a WEP password, even though the network was, in fact, unsecured, and the other users had not been asked this.
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I presume that the iBook G3 worked fine at the location previously?
Some 802.11b access points require a firmware upgrade before 802.11g (Extreme) clients can connect.
Though 802.11g is backward compatible with 802.11b some older access points were developed before 802.11g and therefore are not in a position to allow the 802.11g clients to connect.
Note that you can attempt to persuade an Airport Extreme client to operate in 802.11b mode.
Hold down the control key [ctrl] when selecting the network from the menu.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107938
iFelix

IBook G4 and Airport - does not see other Macs on network

Hi. My iBook G4 (1 gHz, 768 meg, OS 10.4.10) has a networking issue. I can easily connnect online via the Airport card to our Belkin 54g router, to which my G4/733 and G5/2gHz are also connected (hard-wired). As I said, I can connect to the internet with no problem...but cannot see the other computers, nor print to a shared printer! And they cannot see the iBook! when I turn off Airport, and hook up the iBook with a wire, everything works fine, and everyone can see everyone else. This points to some sort of Airport setup thing...any suggestions?

I don't have tiger, so I don't know how different it is from panther;
so have you turned on the correct sharing in your sys preferences,
have you created a computer to computer network (using airport),
have you tried to connect using the network or _connect to server menu_ choice to one of the other computer that you have a user name and password for?
It seems to take a minute or two for the other computer(s) to show up in the network window, so maybe you just aren't waiting long enough? or maybe it's a tiger difference.
I just checked to see if I could connect myself to another computer here, using airport and a belkin 54g router. both computers are wireless G4 ibooks and I created a network, named it, and selected it from the drop down menu choice on both computers and I can access either one from the other, but I have to have a login name and password to do so. those have to be the same as one that is on the computer you are wanting to access.

Airport Extreme works fine with ibook and wireless PC on WPA, but not Wii

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I just got an Airport Extreme last week. Took me a while to get everything figured out, but I got my ibook as well as my wife's ibook and her PC to connect wirelessly, using WPA encryption. We have a TiVo (using the "official" TiVo USB transceiver)and a Nintendo Wii that I can't get to connect though. Both see the network and try to connect, but after a connection attempt they come back with an error message that the network can't be found.
When I change to WEP encryption, the connections work just fine. I really want to stick with WPA, though, as there are a bunch of wireless networks around me and I obviously don't want anyone else to connect to my network. Any thoughts or ideas? Thanks in advance.

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The power recycle process should be something like the following:
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My daughter is using old round airport at college. I set it up originally without password protection because my macbook was too new to recognize the old style airport. I have an old iBook and I understand I can use that to set the passsword. But I can't seem to figure out even using the Airport admin how to establish a password. Any suggestions? Thanks.

If it even has that built-in, you would configure it using Airport Utility. It would likely be in the Wireless configuration for first turning on security and then setting the required password. For Macs you should use WPA Personal if the option is present.

Headless g4, ibook and intel imac (2.33ghz) issue

Ok so I have a small network hooked up through an ethernet switch. I have my iMac running ARD 3.2 and it works perfectly with my ibook both through ethernet and airport. When I plug my headless g4 quicksilver into the ethernet swtich I get nothing. Even using a fixed IP address and searching for it on ARD wont allow me to connect and control it. I've tried attaching a VGA cable and the VGA to mini DV adapter to my ibook and using that as the G4's "monitor" and nothing still. When i boot from the g4 disk on my ibook, I cant see any of the SATA drives hooked up to the SATA card inside and i am at a complete loss of what to do. I really need to be able to access those hard drives and do not have a monitor with which to set up the g4 tower. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

I've tried attaching a VGA cable and the VGA to mini DV adapter to my ibook and using that as the G4's "monitor" and nothing still.
That won't work. The video port on your iBook is output only, for using an external monitor with the iBook. You cannot use that port to use the iBook's screen with another computer.
When i boot from the g4 disk on my ibook, I cant see any of the SATA drives hooked up to the SATA card inside
I presume you mean via Firewire Target Disk Mode? If so, that won't work with drives connected to an any PCI card. Target Disk Mode on a G4 will only show the primary ATA hard drive connected to the motherboard's ATA bus.
As to ARD, I presume that you are certain that the ARD client on the G4 is active and appropriately set up? If so, I've read reports of difficulties observing and controlling some systems when they don't have a monitor connected, at least to get things set up and working. So it's quite possible that you'll need to borrow a monitor for the G4, at least temporarily, to get everything set up and working, particularly if you haven't or aren't certain you have set up the ARD client.
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Our lab has and Airport Extreme (802.11g). Intermittently (once a week to a couple of times a day) our airport extreme will stop allowing new connections. Here's what appears to happen. The airport still appears in the the list of networks in the airport icon in the menu bar, but when I try to connect it whirls for a while and then says connection timed out. If I go to the Airport Admin Utility the base station doesn't appear there even though all of the rest of the ones on our network do (I should at this point, mention that we both ethernet and WiFi layers on our network--the base station operates as an access point in bridge mode). The only solution is to power cycle the base station. A couple of extra tidbits.
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* The restoration of the ability of the airport to accept connections after the power cycle is always immediate.
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1) Do other people see this problem?
2) Is this some problem with the WAN network connection impairing the ability of the base station to establish WiFi connection that eventually resets itself after something times our or resets?
3) Any suggestions as to what to do about it?

Yes, I have the exact same problem.
It's intriguing because I share the connection with my landlord who is often away. The base station is connected in his suite and we seem to never have any problem when only my wife and I are connected on it. I use a iMac 21.5" and my wife a 13" White MacBook (5.2). When he is home (about 1 week per month), that's when the connection will randomly disconnect exactly as you described. He uses a iMac 24" and occasionally an old iBook.

MacBook and Airport

I love my black MacBook so much. There is one thing that it does, that bugs me though. If I close the lid and put it to sleep, then open it, it takes a very long time for it to reconnect to the Airport Base Station. What's up with that? My iBook and PowerBooks before it, had so much problem.
Anyone else have this happen? Any fixes for it?
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Yes, I would think that you would need a location for each.
It's annoying, since I automatically connected with no problem on my iBook, but it's a small price to pay for such a wonderful machine
I guess we can only use automatic for snifing out other networks to use.
Just as a note, I tried to get AppleCare to help, and they tols me automatic connections were no longer supported...I guess I got someone who really didn't know what they were talking about
*EDIT* - You know, you could just flip the airport card back to automatic for work, and manually connect to it, rather than setting a new location. Not sure what would be best for you, because you'd just have to set it back to your home location when you got home.
Boy, I wish it were automatic still!

FW800 and Airport conflicting

I posted this at the end of a thread started a few months ago and got nothing. So here's a second try at getting some help.
Bottom line: FW800 and Airport don't like each other on my 24-inch iMac.
I tried a WD MyBook Pro 500GB external drive and the drive wouldn't stay mounted using FW800. It would mount and then unmount sporadically and never stay mounted with any consistency.
I figured it was the drive, sent the MyBook back to Amazon and bought an OWC Mercury Elite Pro. Plugged it in and had the same problem. This time, I try FW400 and it works fine. So I search here and someone else said if they turn off their Airport 802.11n card, FW800 works with their drive. So I did that and that solves the problem.
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Hi i20west!
Sounds as if the problem is with the settings on the Network panel of System Preferences. [I don't have an answer for what might have happened.]
First, turn on AirPort in the menu bar icon. Open System Preferences, open the Network panel, click on the "Assist me..." button at the bottom of the panel, followed by clicking the blue "Assistant..." button in the drop-down box. [Do NOT click the "Diagnostics..." button.]
"Network Setup Assistant" will open while System Preferences will remain open behind it. On the "Introduction" pane, for convenience enter "airport to router" in the "Location Name:" box and click the "Continue" button. On the "How Do You Connect to the Internet?" pane, activate (by clicking) the radio button left of "I use AirPort to connect to the Internet wirelessly." and click the "Continue" button.
Read and proceed. After configuration is completed you will see in bold at the top "Congratulations! You Are Connected." Click the "Done" button and Network Setup Assistant will close and quit. There should be a message box in front of System Preferences stating that "Your network settings have been changed by another application." That's as it should be, since you just used another app to make those changes, so click "OK" and close.
Finally, change the "Show:" selector to "Network Port Configurations" and select (highlight) the line "AirPort" and simply use the mouse to drag the entire line to the top of the list. Drag the "Built-in FireWire" line to second position in the list. Verify that both boxes are checked to the left. Follow by clicking the "Apply Now" button at bottom right.
The above will change none of the previous settings in other configurations that are maintained in the Network panel of System Preferences. The name of each of those different configurations is displayed in the "Location:" selector for you to choose how you wish to be connected. You should now see on that selector the name you earlier gave this new configuration - "airport to router"
While it may appear to be confusing, you'll notice that after you switch from one configuration name to another and have clicked the "Apply Now" button - the settings that you will see on each pane will be the ones that are appropriate for that configuration.
Once you have a working configuration, be careful not to edit any of its settings followed by clicking the "Apply Now" button, as that will alter the configuration so that it may no longer work.
Rather than haphazardly editing a working configuration, it's less confusing to simply initiate an entirely new configuration, as you've just done above. If that would then continue to work better for you, say for a month or so, then the prior configuration, and other old configurations, may no longer be necessary, and can be deleted from the "Location:" selector.

Will this DVD drive will work with my indigo iBook?

So I found this cheap DVD drive, will it work in my indigo iBook? Can I install the normal blue thing of the cd or it doesnt fit? Can it work with the normal bezel it has? Thanks, I would like to put it to my indigo to watch DVDs!
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I should work. However, you'd be better off scanning the xlr8 database looking for one that has been proven to work. Search the model as 'Apple ibook' and the drive as DVD Rom and it will list a bunch of options.
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Hello.
I recently recieved an iBook G4 12-inch 1.33GHZ (2005) from a family member. Today, I turned it on. Tried to connect to my wifi but got a kernel panic. They were aware of this problem and that is why they were getting rid of it. I reinstalled OS X 10.4.2 with the original install discs, but the wifi still gave me a kernel panic. I put it to sleep once, then woke it. I put it to sleep again, but then it simply would not wake up. I rebooted from the Install DVD and reinstalled OS X... again! This time it would not reboot from the hard drive- it only worked when I inserted the install DVD and selected the hard drive as the startup disc. Now, I rebooted it. I hear the sound, CPU, and CD drive, but no hard drive noise. I have had this issue a lot when trying to get it going. I did some research and the AirPort card can be problematic with this model. I am fine with using a USB dongle for wifi, but I want my computer to reliably start up when I want it to! So, what should I do when I turn on my iBook and the hard drive does not start and AirPort crashes the computer?
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Someone familiar with reading & understanding the Kernel Panic logs, could probably be able
to connect the cause to the Wi-Fi card. In the iBook G4 12-inch 1.33GHz + 14-inch 1.42GHz
models the card also supplies Bluetooth as well as 801.11 wireless frequencies.
•Technical Note TN2063: Understanding and Debugging Kernel Panics:
https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/technotes/tn2063/_index.html
•Mac OS X: How to log a kernel panic - Apple Support
•Resolving Kernel Panics - troubleshooting:
http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/kernelpanics.html#Anchor-Troubleshooting-49575
This card was noted to be a cause of kernel panic and some users were able to disconnect
the card, then use a USB wireless adapter (when available, years ago, USB2) for wi-fi.
So the cause of the Panic is probably the hardware related issue some of these get.
{A company such as wegenermedia.com or powerbookmedic could probably perform
some repairs. While in the shop, other upgrade or repair could be done for little extra
labor costs, since computer would be apart on the bench. These can use an upgrade
to SSD such as legacy OWC ATA version, & replace HDD, to speed things along.}
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The repair requires a take-apart since this wireless card is essentially on the bottom
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Canon mp600r wifi and airport express

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i want to use the second airport express for my wifi printer, but without the usb port (because i can't scan from the printer,and the imac can't see the scan;i juste can print form the imac).
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Agreed, my MP600r works fine on my Airport network.
Problems may occur if you use WEP encryption.
One of the problems with WEP is that the actual standard relies on a 10 character HEX key for 40bit WEP and a 26 character HEX key for 128bit WEP.
In order to make things easier for people, vendors use certain algorithms to convert simple alphanumeric passwords (or passphrases) into HEX keys, thus enabling people to use simple memorable WEP password rather than lengthy HEX keys.
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One thing is a 13 character 128 bit WEP password will be hashed by all vendors in the same way (if you use 40bit WEP then a 5 character password is required).
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http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106424
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