Wireless with a PCMCIA Card

The gear: A Snow ABS and a Lombard (non-AirPort) PowerBook. Motorola and Lucent wireless adapter cards. OS 10.3.8 and OS 9.2.2.
I set up the computer originally with the Motorola card and Panther. The card is not compatible with 9.2.2.
Now needing 9.2.2 wireless capability I have the Lucent card installed and working very nicely with 9.2.2 but Panther cannot find the card. Not System Profiler, not AirPort Setup Assistant nor anything else.
I'm guessing that Panther is still looking for the Motorola card. How do I get the Lucent card recognized?
Thanks,
Cookie

Your problem is finding a set of drivers compatible with OS X for this card. OS X supports, natively, PCMCIA cards based on the Broadcom chipset, not the Lucent chipset.
See these sites:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/wirelessdriver/
http://www.ioexperts.com/80211b_X.html
http://www.orangeware.com/endusers/wirelessformac.html

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