PowerBook 1400 and PCMCIA Ethernet card

I have some problems to find out list of supported PCMCIA Ethernet cards by MacOS 7 (B1-7.5.3) on PowerBook 1400. I would be very please to receive driver for 3Com OfficeConnect 572B what I own. Is it available?
regards,

Hi,
A quick Google search indicates that 3Com XJAEM3336 Mac drivers were available for at least some PowerBook computers. However, it is unclear to me whether the files here are needed, appropriate or sufficient in your case. Perhaps you could look further into this.
If you cannot locate a suitable Ethernet PC Card with Mac drivers, another solution could possibly be to use a 16-bit wireless card (typically, 802.11b speed and WEP security). See, for example, this web page.
Jan

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My ethernet port on my Powerbook G4 is damaged and can no longer be used. I looked into getting it repaired but that apparently requires replacing the entire system board at considerable cost. Rather than take that route, I was hoping to find a PCMCIA card with an Ethernet port but I cannot seem to find any that will work with OS X 10.4.x.
Does anyone know of such a card ?
Thanks for your help !

How old is your Powerbook?
A Mac older than 4 years old may need its clock battery replaced by an authorized service center. The clock battery dying can cause certain ports to malfunction as well. If it is under 4 years old and no surges broke the port, try zapping your PRAM, it may solve the problem once and for all:
http://www.info.apple.com/kbnum/n2238
If it is under AppleCare, there may be no cost at all. Any Mac under a year old is under AppleCare.
Also replacing the system board can be cheaper than from Apple directly if you take it to one of these places:
http://www.dttservice.com/
http://www.powerbookresq.com/
http://www.microdocusa.com/
http://www.macspecialist.com/
http://www.techrestore.com/
In addition, if the port got burnt out by a storm surge or power surge your home/apartment insurance or credit card company you purchased the machine with may pay for the damage. So check each of those sources if you can't find an appropriate card.
http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/ lists a variety of upgrade cards in their database, and may have some ethernet cards you can look at.
By the way, the fact that port is broke suggests the possibility that any other system difficulty you are having may also be related to logicboard issue in anycase, so replacing the logicboard is a good idea if you are noticing other issues.
This thread may yield some clues:
http://macslash.org/article.pl?sid=05/11/09/2132230

PCMCIA Ethernet card for OS X 10.4.8 ?

My ethernet port on my Powerbook G4 is damaged and can no longer be used. I looked into getting it repaired but that apparently requires replacing the entire system board at considerable cost. Rather than take that route, I was hoping to find a PCMCIA card with an Ethernet port but I cannot seem to find any that will work with OS X 10.4.x.
Does anyone know of such a card ?
Thanks for your help !

So, these guys have nothing?
http://www.welovemacs.com/net-mpc-100.html
(MacSense PCMCIA 10/100 Ethernet Card)
This is one of the first things I found when I Googled before posting my original question.
But if you look towards the top of the page at this link under
System Requirements, you will see the following :
Supports Mac OS 7.5.3 and above (Excluding OSX support) G3 PowerBooks and above are not supported.
So, for my needs, yes, they have nothing.

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Probably this issue was discussed somewhere on the Forum but it seems that I am not lucky. The last Friday was my happy day as I received my PowerBook 1400 in great condition. My 16 years old dream from old times was finally completed and now I am more exited by PowerBook than my very fast and modern MacBook.
I hope that I will be able to find any sort of peripheral to connect PowerBook to the Net (probably PCMCIA card?) but before I will start to play with the system and driver installation I want to backup the OS. The problem is that I do not have installation CD (my PowerBook is equipped only with CD - no FDD). Is there any chance to download or rebuild installation CD (bootable) with the appropriate OS? What I see on http://support.apple.com/kb/TA48312?viewlocale=en_US is rather full MacOS history than clear picture how to prepare CD for 1400.
May I kindly ask forum-Gurus for some sort of advise?
Cheers

Hi,
As far as I know, a system CD image file for this computer is not available for download from Apple. Depending upon the PowerBook 1400 version, System 7.5.3 (and a special system enabler) to Mac OS 8.0 is minimum required. System 7.5.3 can be downloaded from Apple (but not the system enabler in question).
A CompactFlash memory card in a PC Card adapter for CompactFlash can be very useful for PowerBook computers with PCMCIA slots. The CF card can be used for file transfers, but also as a backup solution. The CF card may even be bootable if it contains an appropriate system folder
http://www.info.apple.com/support/applespec.legacy/powerbook.html
http://www.lowendmac.com/pb2/powerbook-1400.html
Jan

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I have recently received an old Dell Latitude CPx laptop. i have added to it an old Xircom RealPort CardBus Ethernet 10/100+ Modem 56 card.
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Jim

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You guys have already helped me alot at the IRC channel by helping with installing whenever I got stuck on some things. I imagine this is a simple issue that is documented somewhere, but I have not yet found this document and have been sitting on this problem for 2 days now. I would appreciate any clues you all could give me.

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# KEYMAP: keymaps are found in /usr/share/kbd/keymaps
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pcmcia 28304 4
ohci_hcd 23044 0
ehci_hcd 37256 0
parport_pc 29124 0
parport 38600 1 parport_pc
pcspkr 4172 0
eth1394 21256 0
8139too 28032 0
ohci1394 36404 0
ieee1394 106200 2 eth1394,ohci1394
yenta_socket 23816 3
rsrc_nonstatic 14208 1 yenta_socket
pcmcia_core 52228 3 pcmcia,yenta_socket,rsrc_nonstatic
3c59x 42792 0
mii 6272 2 8139too,3c59x
snd_intel8x0m 20164 0
snd_intel8x0 34752 0
snd_ac97_codec 83960 2 snd_intel8x0m,snd_intel8x0
snd_pcm_oss 55456 0
snd_mixer_oss 20480 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm 97796 4 snd_intel8x0m,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss
snd_timer 27012 1 snd_pcm
snd 60388 7
snd_intel8x0m,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer
soundcore 10848 1 snd
snd_page_alloc 10244 3 snd_intel8x0m,snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm
tpm_atmel 5376 0
tpm 12288 1 tpm_atmel
hw_random 5908 0
uhci_hcd 33808 0
pci_hotplug 30788 0
joydev 10688 0
tsdev 8384 0
evdev 10240 0
usbcore 127740 4 ohci_hcd,ehci_hcd,uhci_hcd
rtc 14156 0
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00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp.|82845 845 (Brookdale) Chipset AGP Bridge (agpgart)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corp.|82801 USB Controller (uhci_hcd)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp.|82801 USB Controller (uhci_hcd)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp.|82801 Hub Interface to PCI Bridge (hw_random)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp.|82801 LPC Interface (i810-tco)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp.|82801 UltraATA IDE Controller (piix)
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01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corp.|NV17M GeForce4 440 Go (nv)
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corp.|3c905C-TX [Fast Etherlink] (3c59x)
02:01.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments|PCI4451 PC card Cardbus Controller
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02:01.1 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments|PCI4451 PC card Cardbus Controller
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02:01.2 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments|PCI4451 OHCI-Lynx IEEE 1394
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002:001 USB Hub: Virtual|Hub (hub)
001:001 USB Hub: Virtual|Hub (hub)
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A little more info about my system, lshwd is detecting a built-in ethernet card that God decided to kill with a lighning bolt a couple years ago, the rest of the system still functions normally, my cable modem suffered the most from the strike and ended up getting replaced, but replacing an ethernet card built into this laptop is not possible because it is part of the main board, sigh.
I had a hell of a time transfering this data over, couldn't get the floppy to work so I installed pine and configured it to use my ISP email account, I royally messed up that config but strangely enough it still worked, the email came from [email protected], and I didnt have to login for it to work, which is lucky because I couldn't set up pine to do all that in the limited time I have with my machine.
Are you guys noticing a pattern yet? I can't configure very well, but I really hope to get better at it!
I also noticed that cardctl was telling me that my ethernet card is a cardbus fast ethernet, does that mean that I shouldnt be trying to use pcmcia-cs for this but use hotplug instead? lshwd also identified my ethernet card as something else, which I imagine is a card that my card is a clone of, since it appears to be working anyway.
I'm looking forward to your suggestions, any hints on configuring in general would be appreciated as well since I'm obviously having some bad luck with it I'll worry about floppy and email problems later.
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Last edited by correnos (2010-03-14 18:43:51)

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Hello all,
I've inserted one PCMCIA ethernet card in a V440.
When I started the machine just only one port (the on board one) is shown with the ifconfig -a command.
So I created the others ports of the Ethe Card with the following command:
ifconfig ceX plumb
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Hi,
Your machine is "HP Pavilion 15-e044sf". Please use the LAST document of the following link to get all part numbers of your machine:
http://support.hp.com/us-en/product/HP-Pavilion-15-Notebook-PC-series/5355006/model/5393818/manuals
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Powerbook 520 RAM work in a Powerbook 1400?

hi,
After reading both the Powerbook 1400 and the Powerbook 520 Technical information manuals it says that they both use the same type of RAM (low power DRAM). My Powerbook 1400 has 24MB of RAM and my Powerbook 520 has I think 12MB of RAM. Can I add those 12MB of RAM to my Powerbook 1400?
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From any practical vantage point, no. The PB500 expansion cards are a different size (wider than the space available in the 1400, and not stackable), and have different connectors from PB1400 cards and connectors. That both kinds of card use low-power DRAM is the only similarity.
PB500 series 'Books use PSRAM. PB1400s use TSOP lowprofile RAM chips.

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Here are some links to possible suppliers. It is becoming harder to find stuff fot these older PowerBooks.
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http://www.wegenermedia.com/
http://noappleistoooldforus.com/
http://lowendmac.com/lists/powerbooks.shtml
http://myoldmac.net/SELL/applemacintosh-powerbook.php

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