Graphite Airport Base

#1 Fri, 22 Jul 2011 - 21:04 68kMLA

Just scored a nice Graphite Airport Base. ;D

Unfortunately,the card itself is an Orinoco Silver, not the Airport one.

But the base is powering up and apparently not suffering from the capacitors failure.

#2 Sat, 23 Jul 2011 - 00:36 68kMLA

Thats right, they are indeed supposed to have a WaveLAN PCMCIA card inside, not an AirPort card.

#3 Sat, 23 Jul 2011 - 02:43 68kMLA

If you want another wavelan card for your OS 9 PowerBooks.. I got one you can have for 10 bucks.. Works fine with the Airport Drivers

#4 Sat, 23 Jul 2011 - 04:03 68kMLA

I've still got my graphite base station here and in service. Great little unit. Its handy to have a device thats friendly with older Apple hardware.

#5 Sat, 23 Jul 2011 - 09:17 68kMLA

If you want another wavelan card for your OS 9 PowerBooks.. I got one you can have for 10 bucks.. Works fine with the Airport Drivers

Thanks, already have a spare wavelan card, useful to get my 5300 on line (pretty slow but nice for a pre-airport powerbook)

Indeed, apparently, most Broadcom BCM 43xx chipset cards seems to be recognised as Airport cards.

Thats right, they are indeed supposed to have a WaveLAN PCMCIA card inside, not an AirPort card

Apparently, some were supplied with the Airport instead of the Wavelan / Orinoco, but should be a few.

Its handy to have a device thats friendly with older Apple hardware.

there is a possibility to connect non-airport equipped computers apparently (using an Ethernet cable) anybody here using that setup ? (can be useful for a Powermac G3 or G3 Imac)

#6 Sun, 24 Jul 2011 - 08:24 68kMLA

This is just a disguised 486 router + wlan card development was a bit rushed.

#7 Sat, 3 Sep 2011 - 16:48 68kMLA

I am still trying to figure how to connect a non-airport compliant computer with the ABS.

I want to connect the ABS to an G3 Imac or similar, using a crossover cable, but unfortunately nothing seems to work right now.