The original wifi card was an incompatible Atheros. I may not have explained myself properly.
I replaced the Atheros card with an Airport Extreme card that has three connectors for three wires (does that mean it's b/g/n? I don't know much about the hardware standards). That wifi card (a Macbook Airport Extreme) worked fine in my T61 with I think 10.7. It doesn't currently recognize on the AOA150.
However, at the moment, SL will only boot with "-f" which I know has a weird impact on network stuff (for instance my desktop can only use its ethernet card booting via rebuilding the kernel cache). So it may be that when booting with "-f", this machine or SL or both have trouble recognizing the Airport Extreme. It doesn't really matter I bought another Airport card (with 2 connectors) for $3.50.
Quinterro mine originally ran XP also. I honestly only used it for work and then when the BIOS problem first surfaced I put it away until I salvaged it for parts probably a year or two ago (which is why the palmrest is broken).
What's even weirder - and I truly hope I took the battery out without realizing and hence cut the power accidentally - is that machine 'broke' again last night and I had to flash the BIOS again. But I had previously flashed the BIOS to 3310 (but it had reverted to pre-3309). It has no CMOS battery at the moment but that's still really weird.
I replaced the Atheros card with an Airport Extreme card that has three connectors for three wires (does that mean it's b/g/n? I don't know much about the hardware standards). That wifi card (a Macbook Airport Extreme) worked fine in my T61 with I think 10.7. It doesn't currently recognize on the AOA150.
However, at the moment, SL will only boot with "-f" which I know has a weird impact on network stuff (for instance my desktop can only use its ethernet card booting via rebuilding the kernel cache). So it may be that when booting with "-f", this machine or SL or both have trouble recognizing the Airport Extreme. It doesn't really matter I bought another Airport card (with 2 connectors) for $3.50.
Quinterro mine originally ran XP also. I honestly only used it for work and then when the BIOS problem first surfaced I put it away until I salvaged it for parts probably a year or two ago (which is why the palmrest is broken).
What's even weirder - and I truly hope I took the battery out without realizing and hence cut the power accidentally - is that machine 'broke' again last night and I had to flash the BIOS again. But I had previously flashed the BIOS to 3310 (but it had reverted to pre-3309). It has no CMOS battery at the moment but that's still really weird.