Want better wirless than original Airport for MDD.

My MDD single 1.25ghz G4 only supports the old original AirPort card which, aside from the possibility (since I have found conflicting reports) that it doesn't work with WPA2 encryption, it is only 802.11b and I could do with a faster connection for file transfer.
So I figure the only option is a PCI 802.11g card which are inexpensive these days. Thing is ideally I'd like one that works natively with OS X (10.5) so I don't need any additional software driver installation. Am I correct in believing that in order for this to happen I need to get a card with a Broadcom chipset or does it need to be more specific? Thanks.

I use this card as it eliminates having all those antennas sticking out the back of my machine and I can reposition the separate antenna cluster,itself, rather than my entire Mac if I have a wifi reception issue.
It works great in my Mac under OS 10.4.11 Tiger and a Belkin N wifi router.
http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Newer%20Technology/MXP802NPCI/

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Not sure what your idea of inexpensive is - have you searched for USB Microphones yet? There are hundreds of choices under $100 compatible with Mac or Pc. I'd be cautious and read reviews of the cheaper items as the built-in mic seems to be better than most $20-$30 ones.

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Use airport for internet and ethernet for local?

Hi. Ive searched around and cant find an answer for this.
I have a 27" imac connected to my router and all works fine for accessing the internet.
I have several other devices close by that I want to connect via ethernet. If i connect the imac to another router via ethernet I can browse my local devices but loose internet connectivity. It is as if the imac will suspend the airport connection while the ethernet cable is connected. I don't want my second router to act as a bridge as it doesn't support N speeds.
Essentially, I want the imac to use airport for internet and the ethernet port for local files.... The only workaround I have is to unplug the ethernet cable from the back of the imac when i want to use the internet. I'm hoping it's just a DNS issue, but cant seem to resolve it.
I do not need internet connectivity for the other devices and don't see how i can do that without enabling the wireless side of my second router and then creating a bridge...
Any suggestions?

It is as if the imac will suspend the airport connection while the ethernet cable is connected.
The Connection Order on your iMac is set so that if both AirPort and Ethernet are "on", the iMac will give priority to the Ethernet connection.
If you want to configure your iMac so that it gives priority to an AirPort connection if both AirPort and Ethernet are "on", give this a try:
Open System Preferences (gear icon on the dock) and open Network
Click on the small gear icon at the bottom of the connection list on the left
Click on Set Service Order and drag AirPort to the top of the connection order list
Click OK, then click Apply
Now, if both AirPort and Ethernet are active, your iMac will give priority to the AirPort connection. If you want to connect using Ethernet, you will have to turn AirPort off by clicking the fan shaped AirPort icon at the top of your computer screen.

Security encryption for Original Airport Card?

I recently purchased and installed an Apple Original Airport card(802.11b) for my iBook G3 running OSX Tiger(10.4.8). All available written documentation that I've obtained is telling me that the card is only 128 bit WEP encryption capable. However, I have been able to log onto my home network and access the internet via my router which is configured for WPA-PSK security encryption.
Now, my question is? Do I have a problem with my home network security if I'm able to access it with a wireless card that is not supposed to be able to access it? Has anyone else encountered this?

Hey Guys,
I have a small problem with setting up our WIFI network!
I have a G3 IBOOK Clemshell & a PC XP SP2 both on the WIFI Network. Right now i just removed the SSID and i enabled MAC filtering. But i want to secure our Network more, but how do i do that.
How do i know, which WPA i need to take?
I have a Belkin router/ Modem and i can choose WPA/WPA2-Personal (PSK)but than i have a field for "Authentication" what do i need to choose there? the options are: WPA-PSK, WPA2-PSK or WPA-PSK + WPA2-PSK. after that i have this field "Encryption Technique" and i can choose TKIP, AES or TKIP+AES! what to take???
I know, so many questions,
but first of all, i am quite new to APPLE and to WIFIs so a lot to learn, i really do hope, you can give me a hand!
Best Regards,
Jan

Does AirPort Express require better Internet than Ethernet?

Wondering since I was having intermittent problems w my Linksys router & trouble updating it so thought switching to Airport Express would give me a simple way to get things working.
Very disappointed that noes it's worse than before. Yesterday after a # of tries I did get it partly set up & although amber blinking lights, I was able to use Internet.
Called Set up AppleCare call online to resolve amber light issue. She had me reset modem & when we were done, I again had green light on Airport BUT NO INTERNET CONNECTION. She said to call my ISP cox.
I did try after a reset to connect MacbookPro directly to Ethernet & got it to connect. Then I unplugged Ethernet from Mac & plugged into airport & no connection again.
So instead of Airport Express making things better, they are worse. I'm typing this on my iPhone 4S which for some reason has really slowed down.
I learned that my old Motorola Surfboard modem is Docsis 2.0 & cox is switching to 3.0.
But it was working better, although frequent brief loss of connection.
So does Airport require a better modem or better connection than just Ethernet or via my Linksys E1200?
Not happy also that functionally worse off after calling AppleCare. I know she didn't cause the issue but her suggestion while standard tipped it over to not be connecting.
& typing all this on my iPhone is not fun although it did just now get back temporarily there for just a bit to its usual speed but now back to having to wait for it.

Well I did the power down reset. But I think you missed the import of my question.
I'm talking about an older modem that may be marginal. Not positive about the 2 Ethernet cables I have used either.
So yes if the modem is working as it should I guess it should make a difference.
But something is weird when I can can next via Ethernet & then I just unplug the the rent from my Mac & plug it into the wan port on the AirPort Express & no connection.
To look at the modem & Airport across the room the lights make it look like they are fine.
I just done have Internet connection to my Mac. I did yesterday w the amber lights flashing.
& I was connecting w the Linksys but had frequent loss of connection.
So wondering if maybe Airport has slightly greater requirements that act as a tipping point so it connected without it but doesn't connect w it. But the green light supposedly shows its working fine.
Well I did put out a wanted request on FreeOC for a compatible Docsis 3.0 cable modem. Supposedly they work better & that might just make the difference.
Don't really want to buy a new modem when I'm about to move to a new area where requirements might be different.

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I made a newer post about this same topic (trying to be a little more strategic) and this time I included a link to a video demonstrating my point. Here's the post http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=6574743#6574743.
I couldn't agree with you more on the custom folder icon issues. I'm beginning to find out what the problem is on that. I have used the newest version of Candy Bar for my Home directory icons and that works fine, but there are some folders that I want to use a different icon for and leave the rest as they are. Candy Bar can't do this for me (as it only works with the generic icons) and so I used Apple's Icon Composer application (in the Developer Tools) to make the correct icon sizes for Leopard and then saved them as .icns but then copying and pasting that on a folder would result in the default ICNS icon and not my custom icon (that was under 10.5.1). So I finally got the custom icon to appear, but it only works for sizes 128x128 and lower, even though I put a 512X512 version in there. That's why it doesn't show up in Cover Flow. For some reason, Leopard "blacks" out anything larger than 128x128 on "Cut and Paste" icons. I found that out by copying my custom icon from the Get Info panel and then opening that in Preview and it shows a black background for the larger icons instead of the alpha channel. I'm still trying to figure this out. Also, IconBuilder seems to be doing the same thing (making and ICNS file) but it seems to work better. I haven't used that since I've upgraded to Leopard but from what I've read it should work, but I don't have Photoshop right now. Well, thanks for posting and agreeing with me on the Carousel view and I hope you check out my video. Thanks.

How does one update original airport card for WPA?

Hi, I've an earlier AX, and an original airport card that I understand can be updated to be able to be WPA compatible. How do I do this? The AX is setup for WPA/WPA2 personal, and I have no trouble joining the network from other macs, and I just learned that the original airport card is supposedly able to be updated to also handle WPA. This card is installed on a g3 imac 700 se with os 10.4.11.
I also posted this question in the airport express forum, but thought it may have a better chance of being answered here after I thought about it a bit.
Thank you,
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You can't get it to do WPA2.
You can get it to do WPA if you have the right software installed, which you probably already do:
AirPort Card: When You Can Join a WPA Network
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Data folder can not be opened in finding " AirPort Time Capsule " The operation can not be completed because the original item for " data" does not exist .

Hi
I have a " AirPort Time Capsule " (firmware 7.7.3) When I try to open the data folder in "finder". Then I got the message " The operation can not be completed because the original item for " data" does not exist". I have a lot of data and I can understand why I get this message?
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Br. Bo

Get a USB drive of 2TB or more.. assuming your TC is 2TB. Either preformatted Mac or plug into your Mac and format it standard Mac OS Extended Journaled in disk utility.
Do a full archive of the TC. You do this using airport utility. Do not click the erase disk.. I marked in green.. just the archive.. that is to backup the internal disk to the USB disk. It is not fast.. take it that the process will go at around 40-50GB/hr.
Once you complete the archive .. it is a direct image of the data on your TC.. you can then plug it into your computer directly.. and then try and open the files you lost.. if you cannot open them.. open disk utility and fix the permissions.
http://osxdaily.com/2015/01/13/repair-disk-permissions-mac-os-x/
Or try the methods apple recommends..
OS X Yosemite: Set permissions for items on your Mac
It is possible to fix things on the USB drive because it is locally mounted.. but you cannot fix it on TC which is network drive.

Hi, can anyone tell me if I can have more than one iTunes account on the same PC. I've just bought my wife an iPad2 and want to create a separate account for her. Can I do that on the same PC as mine?

Hi, can anyone tell me if I can have more than one iTunes account on the same PC. I've just bought my wife an iPad2 and want to create a separate account for her. Can I do that on the same PC as mine? Thanks.

I would advise that you not set up a second Apple ID. It's really not necessary - having two Apple IDs won't affect how iTunes works with your iPads - and will just complicate matters. Each iPad will be treated independently and can be set to sync only the items you want on that particular iPad. If you really want to keep the two iPads separate, set up different iTunes libraries and have only those items you want on the related iPad in that library, rather than a different Apple ID. If you plan not to use a computer and just download directly to the iPads, you can again choose what apps and content each iPad gets.
But answering your specific question, you can have content from up to five iTunes Store accounts on any one computer or iPad. To create a new iTunes Store account, you'll need a different email address, and from there you just create the account the same way you did the first one.
Regards.

Is there a way to turn the wireless capabilities off on an AirPort Express? I have an AirPort Extreme as my main router and use the express to just extend it. I only really want to you use the express for hard ethernet connections

Is there a way to turn the wireless capabilities off on an AirPort Express? I have an AirPort Extreme as my main router and use the express to just extend it. I only really want to you use the express for hard ethernet connections. For whatever reason when I have my express extend my wifi at home the download speed from just the express is absolutely terrible, drops to about 1.5 mb compared to when it's on the extremes part of the network the speed goes up to 50-75mb. These terrible download speed really only affects the iPhones as my MacBook Pro usually gets the good speed no matter where it is. I don't believe there is anything wrong with my phone because if I am in the part of the house that uses just the extreme the download speeds on the iphone goes up to 50-75mb. As a note I have an AirPort Extreme on the top floor of my house (second floor) that's where my modem is located. On the first floor that's where one airport express is located. I also have another airport express in the basement that is accessed by my landlord. Any thoughts on how to fix this would be helpful.

Is there a way to turn the wireless capabilities off on an AirPort Express? I have an AirPort Extreme as my main router and use the express to just extend it. I only really want to you use the express for hard ethernet connections.
It appears that your networking goals with the AirPort Express is to use it as a wireless Ethernet bridge instead of using it to extend the wireless range of your AirPort Extreme. The latter requires that the Express Wi-Fi radios be enabled.
If you intended to use the Express as a wireless bridge, you just need to reconfigure it to "Join a wireless" network instead of "Extend a wireless network."
For whatever reason when I have my express extend my wifi at home the download speed from just the express is absolutely terrible, drops to about 1.5 mb compared to when it's on the extremes part of the network the speed goes up to 50-75mb.
In an extended network, the placement of the extending base station is critical as it can only extend the wireless network at the bandwidth at which it receives it.
Please check out the following AirPort User Tip for details on optimal base station placement.

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I work for a small Mac design group in a large business environment. We store Quark, InDesign, Photoshop files on the companies Win NT Server. To do this they have installed DAVE because they said just using OS X's PC connect ability was causing the documents to be looked at as .exe or unrecognizable files by the Mac. Lately some files are giving I/O errors on the server and getting corrupted. Is there a better option for communicating with a PC server than DAVE?

For just using OS X, I've never heard of any problems like that; I'm wondering if they're just confused? Or are they using a fairly fancy, unusual setup of some sort? Has anyone tried just connecting with the standard Mac feature?; I would be curious to hear what breaks (since if something does break, it probably implies that someone either misconfigured the Macs or misconfigured the server).
For the files in question: Are you able to access these files from a Windows computer?; can you read them there? I'm wondering if the IO error was a network problem (that DAVE might have a connection to), or just that their server's hard disk is failing.

Better client than sqlplus for bulk fetch testing .

Hi,
I'm doing some test with rows speed retriving via Net8 and need some better client than sqlplus itself .
There is araysize limit of 5000 in sqlplus and its not oriented for massive row fetching , although Im using set termout off .
Test are in 10.2.0.3 environment and 100Mbit ethernet netowrk .
So is there any better client I can use ? Or I need to write it by myself :) ?
I've tried with pmdtm (informatica fetch utility) but it has got some problems with thread synchronization , basicaly strace profiling returns
% time     seconds usecs/call     calls    errors syscall
57.35    1.738975         161     10819      2145 futex
41.35    1.253799       32149        39           poll
1.21    0.036717           3     11869           read
0.08    0.002491           1      2163           write
0.00    0.000000           0        50           fcntl
0.00    0.000000           0        19           clock_gettime
100.00    3.031982                 24959      2145 totalso instead of reading it's latching :).
Regards
GregG

GregG wrote:
its not oriented for massive row fetching , although Im using set termout off .You can use SQL*Plus AUTOTRACE command to disable query result printing:
SQL> set autotrace traceonly;
SQL> select * from dba_objects;
18816 rows selected.
Execution Plan
Plan hash value: 1919983379
| Id | Operation                      | Name        | Rows | Bytes | Cost (%CPU)| Time     |
|   0 | SELECT STATEMENT               |             | 16154 | 3265K|    75   (3)| 00:00:01 |
|   1 | VIEW                          | DBA_OBJECTS | 16154 | 3265K|    75   (3)| 00:00:01 |
|   2 |   UNION-ALL                    |             |       |       |            |          |
|* 3 |    TABLE ACCESS BY INDEX ROWID | SUM$        |     1 |    26 |     0   (0)| 00:00:01 |
|* 4 |     INDEX UNIQUE SCAN          | I_SUM$_1    |     1 |       |     0   (0)| 00:00:01 |
|   5 |    TABLE ACCESS BY INDEX ROWID | OBJ$        |     1 |    25 |     3   (0)| 00:00:01 |
|* 6 |     INDEX RANGE SCAN           | I_OBJ1      |     1 |       |     2   (0)| 00:00:01 |
|* 7 |    FILTER                      |             |       |       |            |          |
|* 8 |     HASH JOIN                  |             | 19706 | 2290K|    72   (3)| 00:00:01 |
|   9 |      TABLE ACCESS FULL         | USER$       |    66 | 1122 |     3   (0)| 00:00:01 |
|* 10 |      HASH JOIN                 |             | 19706 | 1962K|    69   (3)| 00:00:01 |
| 11 |       INDEX FULL SCAN          | I_USER2     |    66 | 1452 |     1   (0)| 00:00:01 |
|* 12 |       TABLE ACCESS FULL        | OBJ$        | 19706 | 1539K|    67   (2)| 00:00:01 |
|* 13 |     TABLE ACCESS BY INDEX ROWID| IND$        |     1 |     8 |     2   (0)| 00:00:01 |
|* 14 |      INDEX UNIQUE SCAN         | I_IND1      |     1 |       |     1   (0)| 00:00:01 |
| 15 |     NESTED LOOPS               |             |     1 |    30 |     2   (0)| 00:00:01 |
|* 16 |      INDEX SKIP SCAN           | I_USER2     |     1 |    20 |     1   (0)| 00:00:01 |
|* 17 |      INDEX RANGE SCAN          | I_OBJ4      |     1 |    10 |     1   (0)| 00:00:01 |
| 18 |    NESTED LOOPS                |             |     1 |    43 |     3   (0)| 00:00:01 |
| 19 |     TABLE ACCESS FULL          | LINK$       |     1 |    26 |     2   (0)| 00:00:01 |
| 20 |     TABLE ACCESS CLUSTER       | USER$       |     1 |    17 |     1   (0)| 00:00:01 |
|* 21 |      INDEX UNIQUE SCAN         | I_USER#     |     1 |       |     0   (0)| 00:00:01 |
Predicate Information (identified by operation id):
   3 - filter(BITAND("S"."XPFLAGS",8388608)=8388608)
   4 - access("S"."OBJ#"=:B1)
   6 - access("EO"."OBJ#"=:B1)
   7 - filter(("O"."TYPE#"<>1 AND "O"."TYPE#"<>10 OR "O"."TYPE#"=1 AND (SELECT 1
              FROM "SYS"."IND$" "I" WHERE "I"."OBJ#"=:B1 AND ("I"."TYPE#"=1 OR "I"."TYPE#"=2 OR
              "I"."TYPE#"=3 OR "I"."TYPE#"=4 OR "I"."TYPE#"=6 OR "I"."TYPE#"=7 OR
              "I"."TYPE#"=9))=1) AND ("O"."TYPE#"<>4 AND "O"."TYPE#"<>5 AND "O"."TYPE#"<>7 AND
              "O"."TYPE#"<>8 AND "O"."TYPE#"<>9 AND "O"."TYPE#"<>10 AND "O"."TYPE#"<>11 AND
              "O"."TYPE#"<>12 AND "O"."TYPE#"<>13 AND "O"."TYPE#"<>14 AND "O"."TYPE#"<>22 AND
              "O"."TYPE#"<>87 AND "O"."TYPE#"<>88 OR BITAND("U"."SPARE1",16)=0 OR ("O"."TYPE#"=4 OR
              "O"."TYPE#"=5 OR "O"."TYPE#"=7 OR "O"."TYPE#"=8 OR "O"."TYPE#"=9 OR "O"."TYPE#"=10 OR
              "O"."TYPE#"=11 OR "O"."TYPE#"=12 OR "O"."TYPE#"=13 OR "O"."TYPE#"=14 OR
              "O"."TYPE#"=22 OR "O"."TYPE#"=87) AND ("U"."TYPE#"<>2 AND
              SYS_CONTEXT('userenv','current_edition_name')='ORA$BASE' OR "U"."TYPE#"=2 AND
              "U"."SPARE2"=TO_NUMBER(SYS_CONTEXT('userenv','current_edition_id')) OR EXISTS
              (SELECT 0 FROM SYS."USER$" "U2",SYS."OBJ$" "O2" WHERE "O2"."OWNER#"="U2"."USER#" AND
              "O2"."TYPE#"=88 AND "O2"."DATAOBJ#"=:B2 AND "U2"."TYPE#"=2 AND
              "U2"."SPARE2"=TO_NUMBER(SYS_CONTEXT('userenv','current_edition_id'))))))
   8 - access("O"."SPARE3"="U"."USER#")
10 - access("O"."OWNER#"="U"."USER#")
12 - filter("O"."NAME"<>'_NEXT_OBJECT' AND "O"."NAME"<>'_default_auditing_options_'
              AND BITAND("O"."FLAGS",128)=0 AND "O"."LINKNAME" IS NULL)
13 - filter("I"."TYPE#"=1 OR "I"."TYPE#"=2 OR "I"."TYPE#"=3 OR "I"."TYPE#"=4 OR
              "I"."TYPE#"=6 OR "I"."TYPE#"=7 OR "I"."TYPE#"=9)
14 - access("I"."OBJ#"=:B1)
16 - access("U2"."TYPE#"=2 AND "U2"."SPARE2"=TO_NUMBER(SYS_CONTEXT('userenv','curren
              t_edition_id')))
       filter("U2"."TYPE#"=2 AND "U2"."SPARE2"=TO_NUMBER(SYS_CONTEXT('userenv','curren
              t_edition_id')))
17 - access("O2"."DATAOBJ#"=:B1 AND "O2"."TYPE#"=88 AND "O2"."OWNER#"="U2"."USER#")
21 - access("L"."OWNER#"="U"."USER#")
Statistics
          0 recursive calls
          0 db block gets
       3397 consistent gets
         78 physical reads
          0 redo size
     908471 bytes sent via SQL*Net to client
      14213 bytes received via SQL*Net from client
       1256 SQL*Net roundtrips to/from client
          0 sorts (memory)
          0 sorts (disk)
      18816 rows processed
SQL>

Why does the Fireworks save for web function give better results than in Photoshop?

Having used the trial version of Fireworks, I have noticed that the save for web function gives greater compression and image quality than saving for web in Photoshop. Why is this?
As Adobe are not continuing in developing Fireworks, does anyone know if will they will improve the save for web function in Photoshop to match the Fireworks version?
Are there any third party companies who anyone can recommend who will process large volumes of images for web?
Thanks

One of my favourite topics ;-P
First, the save for web function in Photoshop has not seen any real updates in a long time. In Fireworks PNG export allows for fully transparent optimized files with indexed 256 or less colours, which is impossible in the save for web function in Photohop. It is unsupported.
This is one of the reasons why Fireworks does a much better job than Photoshop. Another reason is that Photoshop adds meta junk in its exported files, and this also increases the file size (and should be removed, because there are also a number of fields which include information about your setup).
One other caveat is that Photoshop's save for web functions neither allows for a choice in chroma subsampling, and instead decides automatically below a certain quality threshold to degrade the colour sharpness quality. The user has no control over this. (Fireworks also limits the user this way.)
One thing to be careful of: FW's jpg quality setting, and PS's quality settings are very different - a 50 in Photoshop is not the same 50 setting in Fireworks.
For jpg optimization I generally use RIOT (free): http://luci.criosweb.ro/riot/
(When you install, be careful NOT to install the extra junkware!)
Fireworks cannot change the chroma subsampling to 4:2:0, which does degrade the quality a bit compared to RIOT and Photoshop in my experience. Photoshop adds useless meta information, even if the user tells it not to do that. RIOT allows you to remove that information, saving 6k. RIOT also offers an automatic mode that optimizes existing jpg images without degrading the quality further, and often saves 10k or more, depending on the images.
Interestingly enough, in my tests exported Fireworks jpg images are always reduced in file size by RIOT, due to FW's jpg export limitations, without any image degradation.
In my tests FW's jpg quality versus file size turns out to be the worst of all three. RIOT generally wins, or is at least on par with Photoshop.
As for PNG export, Photoshop's save for web function is quite abysmal. No 256 colour full transparency export is possible, while Fireworks does support this.
Having said that, there is a free alternative that leaves both Photoshop AND Fireworks in the dust: Color Quantizer. http://x128.ho.ua/color-quantizer.html
CQ is an amazing little tool: with it anyone can create PNG files with full transparency and reduced to ANY number of colours! It means that a 512 colour PNG with full transparency is now very easy to do. On top of that, for more difficult images a simple quality mask brush tool allows the user to control and retain even small colour details in a PNG, while reducing the file size to an absolute minimum.
CQ is one of the best kept secrets of a Web Developer's toolkit. And it is free!
Both RIOT and Color Quantizer have a built-in batch mode. Both are available for WIndows. Not for Mac. If you are on a Mac, try imageOptim. Not nearly as good as RIOT and CQ, but quite passable.
PS to be fair, the newest versions of Photoshop do allow for export of 8bit PNGs with full transparency through the use of its Generator functionality. But again, it cannot compete with CQ. And as far as I am aware, Generator cannot be used in Photoshop's batch processing (which, btw, is very slow! For simpler daily image processing tasks I have to do in batches, I prefer IrfanView, which is lightning fast! IrfanView).

Substitute for original Airport card

I have a DVD Special iMac with a dead ethernet port. I had been using it with a USB ethernet adapter. Going through the junk in the closet, I found the Airport adapter card that came with the Airport card for my iBook and the old graphite base station that went with it. Since Apple dropped support of the graphite base station with OS X Tiger, it went in the closet and a new Netgear WiFi router went into service. It happens that the guts of a graphite base station is a Lucent WaveLan Silver PCMCIA card. I got to wondering if the WaveLan card would work in the iMac adapter. The WaveLan card is longer than an Airport card since it has an antenna built in, but a bit of snipping with a wire cutter removed part of the plastic bracket on the adapter which was in the way. There's an antenna jack under a tiny plug on the card, and lo! the iMac's antenna plug fits it. I plugged it all together and plugged the iMac back in to the wall.
It works. No extra drivers or anything. OS 9.2.2 works. OS 10.4.11 works. Apple System Profile sees it as an Airport card. The old graphite airport base stations are cheap (there's a big pile of them at our Goodwill store for $15 each). You do need the adapter, which is also usually cheap because people who bought Airport cards for their iBooks didn't need the adapter.
I figured the WaveLan card might work in OS9 because they were supported on Lombard and Pismo PowerBooks, but unlike the PowerBooks, it also works in OS X without a 3rd party driver.

John, Welcome to the discussion area!
The second choice would be an Ethernet wireless adapter. These devices require no drivers and therefore will work with any Ethernet device.

Want better wirless than original Airport for MDD.

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