Using a Lucent Wavelan Silver in the PCMCIA slot

I removed the Lucent Wavelan Silver card from an old Airport Base Station Graphite hoping to make my Powerbook Titanium wireless. After I plugged it in the PCMCIA menu bar icon displayed but the card didn't appear to be functioning. The Network preference in System Preferences doesn't show any signs of reading the card either. Has anyone had any success fixing this problem with third party cards?
What I've found so far is a non-Apple solution drivers. Is there an Apple developed solution out there for third party cards? It is hard to get an original Airport card today.
Powerbook Titanium Mac OS X (10.4.4)

Charles,
Welcome to Apple Discussions.
What I've found so far is a non-Apple solution drivers.
I assume you've found the IO Xperts driver. (http://www.ioxperts.com/products/80211b_X.html)
Is there an Apple developed solution out
there for third party cards?
Not exactly. Apple uses the Broadcom chipset. Some third-party manufacturers also use the Broadcom chipset and those cards would then work with the AirPort drivers. Here is a link to a list of wireless cards that note the chipset, OS and driver.
http://home.earthlink.net/~metaphyzx/Wireless.htm
(Note: the list is dated August 2005.)
Manufacturers change their chipset so the version number of the card will make a difference. For example, the list shows that the Linksys WPC54G uses the Broadcom chipset. Well, that is true with version 1. Version 2 uses a Texas Instrument chipset and version 4 uses the Inprocomm chipset, which means these two do not work with the AirPort Driver.
I use the Linksys WPC54GS v1.0 (SpeedBooster) that uses Broadcom. It was plug 'n play.
It is hard to get an original Airport card today.
A quick search found a number of sellers, but they cost 2-to-3 times more than a third party card. (I didn't check eBay.) A third-party card also avails you to the faster option of 802.11g.
Hope this helps.

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