PowerBook G3 Bronze keyboard

Hello,
I've an dug out my old PowerBook G3 Bronze keyboard and an old Airport card. Is it possible to fit it in the old beast? Couldn't find any info in the Support section.
Thanks for any help.

The "bronze" keyboard Lombard does not have an internal slot for the AirPort card.
The first PowerBook with the internal AirPort card slot was the Pismo.
Options for the Lombard are:
PCMCIA wireless card
Ethernet wireless adapter (like the Linksys WET11 or WET54G)

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Things I have tried.
-extended power reset switch pushing
-shimming the power plug in various positions, but never get more than a second of power.
-significant surgery on it, looking for loose items.
-pressed down hard on the right side of the processor board
-unplugged the PRAM battery
-removed the battery, keyboard, extra RAM
Any other troubleshooting suggestions would be appreciated. Since it is DOA, I am ready to try difficult or scary things
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I finally have a working Lombard at home to play with. Here is what I found.
It appears that the battery and charger are good. I can put these two on the good Lombard and they work. With the battery fully charged (from the good Lombard), I can boot the bad Lombard, and all seems well.
So, it appears that the something in the internal power system is not working properly. Looking at pbfixit, they suggest the Power Card. But the symptoms that it will fix "are battery charging problems, and drive bay problems". This does not seem to fit my symptoms.
I am thinking that it is probably the Sound Card, or the female power plug on the sound card. But, at $100 to get one from pbfixit, kind of steep for a test guess.
Are there any other tests or swaps that I can do while I have a good Lombard here.
The obvious one is to take the sound card out of the good Lombard, and put it in the bad Lombard. But, this is a bit more scary disassembly that I want to do on my friends loaner Lombard.
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Powerbook G3 (Bronze) Won't Boot! Exec Fromat Error

Recently, I started a software update from Apple. During the update, my PBG3 froze. After a hard boot, I get these three line that keeps repeating.
(Current Date and Time) init: can't exec/bin/sh for single user: Exec format error
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Maybe I should elaborate. I am using a PowerBook G3 Bronze keyboard, running 10.2 (Was at 10.3.9)
A few weeks ago I was online (wirelessly through Verizon DSL) and everything froze. Tried to restart over and over and kept getting Darwin. Reinstalled the system software (back to 10.2) from original disks. Same problem. Now when I turn on the machine I get the MAC OSX start up screen where I log in. I hit log-in and type in my password from the pop up and then it goes to the Darwin/BSD screen. So, after looking though the help and threads I have come to this point of starting up in single user mode and this is what happens:
@ the sh-2.05a# I typed in /sbin/fsck -y (then here is the rest as it shows on screen)
/dev/rdisk0s5
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fsck_hfs: Volume is journaled. No checking performed.
fsck_hfs: Use the -f option to force checking.
sh-2.05a# sbin/fsck -fy
/dev/rdisk0s5
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Checking Extents Overflow file.
Checking Catalog file.
Invalid sibling link
(4, 38934)
Invalid B-tree Header
Invalid map node
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Checking multi-linked files.
Checking Catalog hierarchy.
Missing thread record (id = 2127165)
Missing thread record (id = 2127168)
Missing thread record (id = 2127257)
Missing thread record (id = 2127283)
Missing thread record (id = 2127304)
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Invalid volume file count
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Checking volume bitmap.
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aldpol,
There are many causes for sleep issues and you just have to wade through them one at a time.
You can always force a Lombard or newer powerbook to shut down by pressing/holding the power button until it turns off. As you have noted, this is an undesirable process since you can corrupt the HD.
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1. Unplug all peripherals (PC cards, mouse, everything).
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http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1431?viewlocale=en_US
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4. If no success, restart while pressing the shift key until you see the message 'extensions off', then release. Now test sleep/wake.
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http://www.mcetech.com/
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http://www.macresq.com/
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