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OS 7.6.1 and Wireless

PPCMLA OS 9 10 posts Apr 20, 2007 to Feb 2, 2010

#1 Fri, 5 Sep 2014 - 15:29 Blueberry iMac 333 — #1

Our press room at work has used this trusty little fella as an employee time clock for years. This means it's been exposed to ink, grease, spray powder and all sorts of things. There's so much spray powder inside the case, you can see it shift around when you move the unit. Definitely gonna take a thorough cleaning. Will post pics next week after my four say weekend.

#1 Fri, 20 Apr 2007 - 23:34 PPCMLA

OK, yet another OS 7 question. On the 1400c with OS 7.6.1, is there a wireless card that will be useable?

I have WAP encryption on my network -- will that work out OK?

#2 Sat, 21 Apr 2007 - 00:48 PPCMLA

Wireless will work on 7.5 or higher using the WaveLAN drivers for WaveLAN Silver or Gold cards. I don't know if any ORiNOCO drivers work on 7.5/7.6, but I doubt it. Both drivers work on the same cards, though, and as long as it isn't a CardBus card, it will probably work in the 1400.

WAP is not a possibility for Macs that cannot run OS X. 128-bit WEP encryption is the best you can do.

Peace,
Drew

#3 Sat, 21 Apr 2007 - 01:47 PPCMLA

The WaveLAN cards are a good choice. Another option is the Proxim/Terabeam Skyline. There are drivers that will work with 7.5 on up. That's what's in my 3400s. The cards don't seem to play nice with putting the 'books to sleep, though. About a third of the time, the cards stop working after bringing the 'book out of sleep. Minor annoyance; I can't complain too much, since I got the cards for something like 10 or 15 dollars.

#4 Sun, 22 Apr 2007 - 19:13 PPCMLA

OK, I think I will try out one of the Proxim cards. That probably does mean that I will have to switch my network password to WEP instead... Sad

Just out of curiosity, is the ability for WAP somewhere at the OS-level? Is that why it wouldn't work in OS 7? [/url]

#5 Sun, 22 Apr 2007 - 19:25 PPCMLA

I think a Romabout card would work. There are drivers avaliable that would probably work.

#6 Sun, 22 Apr 2007 - 19:51 PPCMLA

WAP is driver level. System 7+ could support it if drivers had that capability. The thing is that WAP didn't get big until OS 9 was already discontinued...

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Drew
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#7 Thu, 27 Dec 2007 - 04:22 PPCMLA

Digging up yet another old thread...

WAP? When dealing with wireless, the usual meaning of "WAP" is "Wireless Access Point", which is the base station.

The two things you could be referring to are WEP or WPA, both types of wireless security.

WEP is the older, insecure type. I know that WaveLAN drivers support WEP, at least on later OSes. Not sure about on earlier.

WPA is a much newer standard, and has ZERO support in anything older than OS X 10.2. Which means no WPA support in 7.6.1 (or even 9.2.2, for that matter.)

#8 Fri, 28 Dec 2007 - 22:44 PPCMLA

Thanks for the correction re. WAP and WPA! Of course we did all mean WPA. Good on you for keeping us honest!

Peace,
Drew
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#9 Tue, 2 Feb 2010 - 19:59 PPCMLA

System 7 Today probably has the best information about doing anything in 7. It's a good place to keep in your bookmarks.

#10 Tue, 2 Feb 2010 - 21:11 PPCMLA

http://www.powerbookwireless.net/#comp

This site is your friend when it comes to wireless under the Classic Mac. It has helped me find drivers for wavelan/orinocco cards that I have so I can surf the internet on my Powerbook 1400c