The Penny-Pinching PowerBook 1400 Goes Wireless
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The configuration of the wireless component is pretty much completed at this point. You will now be prompted for network specific information. The next window is the Protocol Configuration. The basic network is a Linksys router with a Cisco Access Point. Devices in my network are assigned an IP address using DHCP. I selected "Create a matching TCP/IP configuration using DHCP" (see Figure 5). Click the right arrow to continue. This configuration is your standard, run-of-the-mill wireless network connected to a broadband (cable company) network setup. Nothing up my sleeve.
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And finally, the last Setup Assistant window is Name the New Configuration (see Figure 6). This setup is necessary if you plan to take your penny-pinching PowerBook to the office. Make an office configuration later, but for the time being create a home config. As a side note, I have been tempted to take it down to a local McDonald's to try out their new wireless network, http://www.mcdwireless.com/. This isn't a cheap plug; I mention this because I intend to use this network with the penny-pinching PowerBook when I take it on the road in the family RV. I know the penny-pinching PowerBook has at least one known wireless access point when traveling. Now while I am on the road I can pull into MickieDee's for a McFlurry and a MapQuest query.
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Now back to the regularly scheduled program. You only need to create one network in this window. The ORiNOCO control panel will allow you to add more networks. Figure 7 shows the ORiNOCO control panel and the signal-strength bar. I don't know how accurate the signal-strength bar is. The penny-pinching PowerBook 1400 has never achieved signal strength, according to the meter bar, greater than 50%. This includes when the PowerBook is sitting right next to the access point. No matter, the wireless works superbly!
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Goodies to Pickup
If you're going to add wireless to your penny-pinching PowerBook you may want to download some other software components. MacSSH for Mac Classic is available from versiontracker.com. This client supports SSH2, which most Internet-accessible servers use nowadays. The ftp application Fetch 4.0.3, which used to be a shareware application from Dartmouth University, is now a commercial application from Fetch Softworks. Fetch becomes extremely handy when transferring files between the G4 and the PowerBook 1400. I also installed TclTk8.4.2 and Emacs-20.6 from sourceforge.net. These applications take a few seconds to load in the seemingly slow memory environment. So what's up with the Emacs and the Tcl interpreter? I am a computer geek. Sometimes I just have to write a script for no reason at all.
These software tools made the penny-pinching PowerBook extremely useful; they were, of course, in addition to the software I already had lying around in the old Apple software closet. When all the dust settled and all the extensions were added for Office 98, Mac OS 9.1 was only consuming a whopping 16M of memory. Realistically, as I mentioned earlier, the penny-pinching PowerBook will operate with Mac OS 9.1, wireless interface, and Microsoft Office 98 with only 24M of memory. Upgrading the additional 32M allows me to run development software, such as CodeWarrior, which requires 32M to run on.
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What's the point to adding another chapter to this saga? Well, you computer science students out there on a tight budget take notice. The penny-pinching PowerBook will get you connected to the university's labyrinth of UNIX systems for $200. Dude, that's cheaper than a Dell! The penny-pinching PowerBook, with it's WiFi capability, makes it an extremely versatile little laptop to take with you on the go. My system is set up with tools to access UNIX machines, software development, and word processing.
I plan on taking the penny-pinching PowerBook on the road to use for my writing projects this year and tackle writing the great American novel. I have an idea that takes place in the future. A couple of vintage Apple G4 cubes are set up in a massively parallel environment. They end up going to war with the human race and enslaving them in a virtual world. All the while the physical human bodies are used as batteries to power the system. Throw in a couple of hackers with super kung fu powers and I got a hit. I better go type these ideas down.
Michael J. Norton is a software engineer at Cisco Systems.
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Not juste Penny-Pinching,,,
2004-09-26 00:40:24 MarcCollin [Reply | View]
...but also trouble-pinching.
I just install a Lucent wireless card in my PB 1400 and I worked fine on first try. Thank you for the information. I’m running a OS8.6 with 64m memory and a 10G HD.
I want to share my experience with this computer. I bought it in a computer store to a guy who said he found it in the garbage. It was’nt booting and the guy was asking to the vendor how much it would cost to repair it. The vendor said it wouldnt worth the cost. So I said: I buy it to you if you want... I’m sure I will easily set it back to work (in fact, this could possibily only have been a software problem...) I give him 75$ (CAD). Finally, the hard drive was dead, but the Trouble-Pinching PB still boot perfectly with a OS7.6 CD.
But you dont even need a hard drive to boot a Trouble-Pinching PB1400 and use it for text editing. Just set a ram disk and put a stripped OS7.6 on it with Word 5! Of course, you have to put it only on sleep, but you can backup this ramdisk on a CD, so you can easily restore it if you have to put the machine off.
Infortunately, I dont remember how much ram I had at the moment, probably someting like 48m. (Now I have 64m so I setted a 20m ramdisk, with a not so stripped OS, which allows me for exemple to use appleshare). It was working so well! Very fast, and coming from its sleep almost instantly (also booting in less than 60 sec.) The only problem was the lack of a floppy drive to backup my work, but I found it easily on EBay. I have used it this way for months, whithout any problems.
Finally, I decided to put some money on my trouble-pinching PB: I buy a memory upgrade to bring it to 64m ram, a new HD, a new processor found on ebay (166mhz) and finally a new battery.
The battery (newer tech) never gave me satisfaction, lasting only 45min as it was new... I was deceived and finally, never used it but for minutes. Two years later I discover that if I continued to work after the first alert, it could last up to two hours. I think there was a kind of bug in the power manager (and also, maybe, with my power supply, replaced later with a yoyo one). I would like to desactivate it, if there is a way to do so...
For three months, I owned a IBook that gaves me an incredible amount of trouble, as much with the hardware (CD drive kaputt after 18 months, motherboard had to be replaced after 20 months) than with the software. OSX for my experience was a nightmare and a constant source of frustration, only to make it work correctly and bring back the equivalent functionnality of my PB 1400. In fact OSX, in my opinion, is not a Macintosh OS. You cant even copy it! and how can you keep track of what’s happening in those 100,000 files! And the IBook was never able to run booted in classic, it was crashing every 10 minutes...
Finally I returned the trouble-maker IBook to my brother who had sold it to me and came back to my 1400. What a pleasure! Not so fast, but so pleasant to use. And with a wireless card, it is almost as fast as the IBook on internet...
Would it have been possible to boot this IBook and use it without a HD? LOL! With this monstruous and rigid OSX, you cant do anything if you have any hardware problem, and you have a lot of hardware problems on IBook. Hardware reparation are expensive, very complicated to do, and not worth the price because the replacement parts are the same than the original, so probably wont last more.
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Not juste Penny-Pinching,,,
2005-02-07 00:33:43 dave2004 [Reply | View]
This is all interesting stuff, and I'm hoping to verify that it will all work following recent bidding for an Orinoco compatible card (Dell TrueMobile).
I noted the use of RAM disk for booting. I have used a 512kbyte flash card in a PCMCIA carrier with a 1400c - and now 1 Gbyte devices are available at reasonable cost. Is it possible to force a boot from such a PCMCIA memory device - as this would enable a complete OS to be put on and carried around?
I am not sure that the use of these flash devices speeds the machine up very much, if at all, but maybe they use a lot less power than running the hard disk, so may give more life to these machines. I do think that using CF devices is a good thing, and would be even better if could boot from them.
For moving files between machines I now tend to use Compact Flash cards, as these do provide compatibility. I have Zip Drives, but I haven't bothered to connect these up during the last few years. My CD ROM on the 1400 is currently non functional, so small files are moved by floppy, large ones by CF. If I can get wireless to work that will give another route.
Whether it'll all be worth it is an interesting question - but it'll provide an extra computer with connectivity at relatively low cost.
Noting the comments from Venga - I hope that the router/wireless problems have been sorted. I can't offer much advice, except that I have seen similar problems with PCs running through NetGear routers. I still wonder whether the routers can be hacked.
For PCs a reboot usually works, perhaps accompanied by turning the router on/off. Often the problems are due to DNS failures, and they may be localised to one machine on a network - others still functioning. It is difficult to say whether the problems are with the router or the problem machine.
Maybe someone hacked your 1400 for the challenge!
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Printing via AirPort with wireless PB1400
2004-05-19 12:23:57 EJB [Reply | View]
I am planning to add a wi-fi card (MacWireless) to my PB1400 and would like to know if anyone has tried and/or been able to print via an AirPort base station with an attached printer?
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One more thing
2004-04-11 11:55:49 venga [Reply | View]
I'm also getting a "out of bounds error" or timeout errors when I try to change my configuration in the Orinoco control panel.
Thanks again in advance for any help.
Roberto
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Strange Occurences
2004-04-11 11:34:43 venga [Reply | View]
Funny thing happened to my PB1400cs....I had the little laptop working just fine. I installed a Truemobile 1150 card and downlaoded the Orinoco 7.2 driver software and had configured it just fine to my Netgear Wireless Router. No worries right?
Well just the other day my wife is surfing happily on the 1400 and it crashes, too many pages open, no problem. I reboot, and the lo and behold, the TCP configurations are now generating IPs of 169.xxx.xxx rather than the correct IPs.
The long and short of it is, no matter how many reinstalls of the driver software I do, no matter how much I rerun the setup assistant, the Orinoco monitor isn't "finding" my router. When I go to edit my configurations in the Orinoco control panel my router's SSID is right there in the list of available networks, but the monitor continues to search for a network, and I'm but a foot away. (and it's still searching).
So, I am perplexed as to what happened. Everything was just peachy, what gives? My Router seems to be working just fine and I have all access restrictions off to facilitate reconnection with my 1400 but...no avail. I hope I didn't somehow fry my card.
It's an interesting predicament and I appreciate any input.
Roberto
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Better late than never?
2004-03-16 17:23:31 lepinen [Reply | View]
I just found your fantastic piece on the wireless PowerBook 1400 and realize that it's been a year since it's publication! Anyway, I own a PB 1400, in mint condition I must add, and followed your suggestion. Went on E-Bay, bought the Dell card and downloaded the driver on versiontracker. Two years ago I refused an offer of $1000 CAN for my PB. It's a beautifull machine and the keyboard is simply the best I have ever touched. Now, we are all wireless here, with the Airport Base and all. Your article jolted me: finally, my 1400 could be revived and I could write with M$ Word 5.1. THANKS.
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Wirelss PB1400...sometimes
2003-12-29 12:14:51 anonymous2 [Reply | View]
I have a PB1400c with a Sonnett G3 366 card.
(Great combination. Add RamDoubler 8 and you think this machine was made in the 21st centurty!)
I purchased a Belkin wireless router and an airport card for my PBG4. At the same time I installed into the PB1400 the Dell card Michael suggested.
After the original installation it all worked flawlessly. That was in September.
Starting in early November however the PB1400 has not consistently connected wirelessly. It connects with e-mail and web sites sporadically while the G4 sitting right next to it hums right along on its wireless connection.
This happens whether both machines are right next to the wireless router or 50 feet away in a 2nd floor study.
Any similar experiences?
Any thoughts?
Thanks
Howard Ellegant
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Wonderfull / Thanks
2003-12-22 09:03:18 hugovanrhijn [Reply | View]
I am living in Belgium After reading your article I searched eBay, found a US vendor that offered the Dell 1150, had it shipped to the Old World, meanwhile prepared my (G3 upgraded) PB1400 with the Orinoco software and than, today, when the card arrived, I pushed it into the PB card slot and pushed the start up button.
At that very moment my wife asked me to come and assist her upstairs with her iMac. When I returned I noticed the Orinoco icon on my desktop. I double-clicked it and it turned out the PB had already found my ADSL/Airport link and I was ready to surf the Internet. It was all that simple. Wonderfull! Thanks!!
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One More Thank You!
2003-11-25 13:50:46 anonymous2 [Reply | View]
Thank you so much for posting this article! I never would have dusted off my old 1400 (48 MB RAM, OS 8.6, Newer Tech 233 MHz upgrade), without happening to stumble on the site. Using the Dell 1150 card was very easy with the Orinoco 7.2 drivers, and was super easy to get up and running at the local Starbuck's. I found the Dell page has lots of specials and coupons (check deal-mac.com) so I got 10% off and free shipping. Thanks again!
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Penny-Pinching PowerBook Goes Wireless
2003-11-13 20:37:39 anonymous2 [Reply | View]
Anyone know how to pull off a similar trick on a G3 PowerBook Bronze running Panther? I have a Skyline PN473 Card I used under OS 9. I also have a Lucent WaveLAN Silver I took from a defunct Airport Station.
Any help appreciated.
Bob Perdriau
bobp@marketwriter.com
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can't get it to work on my PB 1400c
2003-10-14 20:15:52 powell789 [Reply | View]
hi-- I saw the article, purchased an Alvarion Breezenet PC-DS.11b WIFI card, supposedly identical to the one mentioned in the article (and yes the Orinoco Driver web site says its driver supports that specific card), but I can't get the Orinoco Driver to recognize the card.
According to the Orinoco web site, "The IOXperts driver currently requires PC Card Manager 3.0, which is included in the following PowerBook models:
* PowerBook 2400
* PowerBook 3400
* PowerBook G3 (all models)
* PowerBook G4 (all models)
PC Card Manager is not a file on the disk and cannot be updated."
So apparently the PB1400 is not supported by teh Orinoco driver.
So my question is, how did you get this driver to work on YOUR PB1400?
Any suggestions?
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can't get it to work on my PB 1400c
2003-10-15 07:16:15 anonymous2 [Reply | View]
This driver won't work because it is for a 32-bit card bus. The 1400 had a 16-bit card bus. The Powerbooks you listed all have this. Try the driver link I posted. That is an Orinoco driver.
My Orinoco is a 1150 series TrueMobile wireless. Sold under the Dell label.
Mike
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can't get it to work on my PB 1400c
2003-10-15 11:16:31 powell789 [Reply | View]
another thought-- the powerbook 1400 you describe in the article has a G3 upgrade I think.... whereas my 1400c is a standard model. Does the G3 upgrade also provide the PC Card Manager 3.0 that Orinoco says is required for its driver?
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can't get it to work on my PB 1400c
2003-10-15 15:18:52 anonymous2 [Reply | View]
Nope.
This was a vanilla 1400. I mentioned that I opted not to upgrade because of the unrealistic price of the G3 upgrades. And a G4 makes no sense whasoever since it can't run OS X.
You are also physically limited to a 16-bit card bus. Only way to get a 32-bit card bus is to buy a Powerbook that has 32-bit card bus architecture.
Mike
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can't get it to work on my PB 1400c
2003-10-16 10:44:31 powell789 [Reply | View]
I called a friend who's a sort of I.T. guy, and he brought his Windoze laptop with the objective to try to update the firmware on the WiFi PC card. After a few hours, he was still unable to do so, although he did manage to communicate with the card and gets its lights to flash. Finally he gave me another similar Lucent "Silver" card to try... voila! it works!
SO: the moral to this story seems to be, that the Lucent card MAY work with a PB 1400, and the Orinico 7.2 driver DOES work with the PB 1400 (despite assurances by Orinoco that it can't because it requires PC Card Manager 3), but for some reasons SOME Lucent cards just don't work, or require a firmware update, perhaps, to get them to work.
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can't get it to work on my PB 1400c
2003-10-15 11:10:38 powell789 [Reply | View]
I went back to the link you posted, and it takes me to the Proxim download page to download the Orinoco version 7.2 driver. That IS the version of driver that I installed. I double checked the Readme file--it says version 7.2.
Any other suggestions?
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can't get it to work on my PB 1400c
2003-10-14 20:36:58 powell789 [Reply | View]
More info from original poster:
1. I'm running OS 9.1. and the PB1400c has 48 MB of RAM.
2. I received the following e-mail from Orinoco regarding their driver on PB1400's:
"Our 802.11b driver doesn't work with your model PowerBook because it requires an internal application called PC Card Manager 3. Unfortunately, this isn't a file on the hard drive that you can upgrade.
If and when we extend support to older PowerBooks, we'll announce it first on our mailing lists. Details on joining are at <www.ioxperts.com/contact.html>."
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Your email address
2003-09-22 15:30:42 szk [Reply | View]
Michael, I'd like to contact you directly to propose something that can add another feature to your Penny-Pinching PowerBook.
I've tried the email address provided here in your profile page, but 3 times I was bounced from employees.org's mail server.
Please email me: szk(at)szk.com.br -
Your email address
2003-10-15 07:12:35 anonymous2 [Reply | View]
Try the e-mail address again it's valid. There may have been some problems.
Mike
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PB 1400 Wireless
2003-10-23 05:46:14 anonymous2 [Reply | View]
Hi,
Iread your article on Penny Pinching PB1400 Wireless. I am ready to buy a Dell 1150 and try this but I read this feedback, which is the same specs for my PB1400 now Im confued?
please more info
Thank You
Spiderdog1@hotmail.com
10-23-03
More info from original poster:
1. I'm running OS 9.1. and the PB1400c has 48 MB of RAM.
2. I received the following e-mail from Orinoco regarding their driver on PB1400's:
"Our 802.11b driver doesn't work with your model PowerBook because it requires an internal application called PC Card Manager 3. Unfortunately, this isn't a file on the hard drive that you can upgrade.?
PC Card Manager 3? -
Look, here's the bottom line. . it works
2003-10-26 20:17:29 anonymous2 [Reply | View]
Running Orinoco 7.2 is NOTHING new on the PB 1400's, 2400's and 3400's. I wrote an article on this two years ago.
There were a half dozen "brand versions" of the Lucent, then Agere, now Proxim Orinoco Silver or Gold (also known as Turbo whatever's) and ALL work in the above mentioned PB as well as the 320!
If you listen to company tech talking heads like the current Orinoco guys who weren't arounf when the cars were made and we '90's Mac heads made them work with PowerBooks . . . well you'll never go wireless with yours.
Just run the app, plug in your card before running the "Assistant" and quite worrying. -
spiderdog1
2003-10-23 05:45:55 anonymous2 [Reply | View]
Hi,
Iread your article on Penny Pinching PB1400 Wireless. I am ready to buy a Dell 1150 and try this but I read this feedback, which is the same specs for my PB1400 now Im confued?
please more info
Thank You
Spiderdog1@hotmail.com
10-23-03
More info from original poster:
1. I'm running OS 9.1. and the PB1400c has 48 MB of RAM.
2. I received the following e-mail from Orinoco regarding their driver on PB1400's:
"Our 802.11b driver doesn't work with your model PowerBook because it requires an internal application called PC Card Manager 3. Unfortunately, this isn't a file on the hard drive that you can upgrade.?
PC Card Manager 3? -
spiderdog1
2003-10-23 05:45:39 anonymous2 [Reply | View]
Hi,
Iread your article on Penny Pinching PB1400 Wireless. I am ready to buy a Dell 1150 and try this but I read this feedback, which is the same specs for my PB1400 now Im confued?
please more info
Thank You
Spidrdog1@hotmail.com
10-23-03
More info from original poster:
1. I'm running OS 9.1. and the PB1400c has 48 MB of RAM.
2. I received the following e-mail from Orinoco regarding their driver on PB1400's:
"Our 802.11b driver doesn't work with your model PowerBook because it requires an internal application called PC Card Manager 3. Unfortunately, this isn't a file on the hard drive that you can upgrade.?
PC Card Manager 3?
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Thanks!
2003-09-12 16:38:59 hammer32 [Reply | View]
I've upgraded to an iBook for normal travel use, but I've still got the G3 upgraded 1400 along on trips hooked up to the GPS. When it's not doing that, it'll work great on the exercise bike or treadmill surfing wirelessly! Picked up the same card for $38 bucks on ebay Buy It Now a few minutes ago. Thanks again!
- Sean
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this is news?
2003-09-12 10:35:23 anonymous2 [Reply | View]
i bought a wavelan silver card the day they came out and threw it in my 1400 along with a brand new apple airport ("snow".. with the modem..) at the time. this was what, 5 years ago? been working flawlessly since day one.
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Glad to see you joining the club
2003-09-12 08:04:39 anonymous2 [Reply | View]
I have been using a PB1400 (which I bought new mind you way back when) as a Wifi laptop for about a year now. OS 9.01, Orinoco Bronze card and Orinoco driver. I also have a G3 card and a larger hard drive. It actually runs faster than my G3 WallStreet. -
Glad to see you joining the club
2006-03-25 00:42:37 DigitalBill [Reply | View]
Curious about the working 1400 setup with the Bronze card. Having some trouble with the WaveLAN Bronze card under 8.6 in my PB1400. Installed the v7.2 Orinoco software, but it keeps complaining about "Incompatible Station firmware".
Versions are listed in the Orinoco Control Panel as: Hardware 3.0, Primary Firmware 2.4, Station firmware 3.6. Trying to connect with our network's Linksys WRT54G router.
Any suggestions? Perhaps one of the WaveLAN drivers instead of the Orinoco? I'd appreciate any advice... -
Glad to see you joining the club
2006-03-25 22:07:39 mnorton [Reply | View]
hi,
Don't know about the firmware problem but I do know i had to setup a separate PUBLIC network for using my old laptops and guest access at the old homestead.
I have a linksys wireless G router configured or should say lack of configuration for this. My Dell 1150 wifi card I used for the article logs into this network.
As does my sons old toshiba laptop using a Dell 1150.
Mike
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Glad to see you joining the club
2006-04-07 06:30:05 DigitalBill [Reply | View]
Thanks, Mike.
I suspect my main problem is the Bronze card. Most reports indicate that particular card won't work, so that's why I was curious about the poster who listed it as his card of choice.
I may try my hand at picking up a Silver or Gold card, or the Dell 1150 TrueMobile you had so much success with, to see if that makes a diff. But if you can give me any more details about your "zero-config" network configutation that may be worth a shot as well.
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Glad to see you joining the club
2006-04-13 12:55:14 DigitalBill [Reply | View]
Well, I picked up s TrueMobile 1150, popped it into the 1400, ran the SetUp Assistant, found my network, had the Assistant set up an Orinoco config, got the bars and thought Woo-hoo! I'm home free!
But...I can't upload/download e-mail and I can't connect to any sites in my browser. Granted, I'm running 8.6, Eudora and IE, but still... I checked the TCP/IP control panel and the Orinoco software properly set up the Orinoco config; and my network is listed right there.
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Glad to see you joining the club - and I have!!!
2006-04-13 21:23:44 DigitalBill [Reply | View]
OK, I'm, an idiot. All it took was some futzing around with the TCP/IP and security settings, as well as changing AppleTalk to wireless as well, and some trial-and-error to make sure I hadn't missed anything. Now I'm connecting easily to the Internet through the Linksys Wireless-G router, plus sharing files with my dual-proc G4 and my venerable ol' Power Computing clone as well as printing to my Laserjet 5MP through an AsanteTalk box! WOW!
Mike, if not for you and Derek Miller's instructions at http://www.penmachine.com/techie/airport1400.html, I couldn't have done it. THANK YOU VERY, VERY MUCH!!! -
Powerbook 1400 Wireless Idiot needs help
2007-01-23 18:26:47 karlsvogn [Reply | View]
Hi DigitalBill,
I had the same experience that you did with the orinoco wifi card except I haven't gotten to the happy part of the story. I have also futzed around with tcp/ip and apple talk. I see the bars for the lokal wireless ap's and I put in the network encryption codes and it seens to be ok, but I can't seem to get connected. I keep getting the wrong kind of ip address. I get that 196 ip address.
Any suggestions?
Karlsvogn
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enough...
2003-09-12 07:53:29 anonymous2 [Reply | View]
If I hear the phrase "penny-pinching PowerBook" one more time, I am going to put my fist through my monitor. Enough already! Doesn't O'Reilly have any editors to filter out that nonsense?
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WI FI For the 1400
2003-09-07 16:40:29 anonymous2 [Reply | View]
I have been using a Powerbook 1400 with a farallon Skyline wireless card for about a year. It works great with my Airport base station.
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Any Orinoco card?
2003-09-06 12:38:26 anonymous2 [Reply | View]
I'm in the middle of upgrading my PowerBook G3 (Lombard) from a Lucent WaveLAN Orinoco Gold card to a Buffalo AirStation G (Airport to Airport Extreme). I know the OS 9 Airport drivers include built-in support for the Orinoco cards, but does this include all Orinocos? If not, which are 16bit? I've been looking to recycle the card, and a cheap very portable laptop would be nice.
-- Rob
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Not a G4, but still ticking...
2003-09-06 02:55:53 mnystedt [Reply | View]
Hey,
After reading the first installment of your penny-pinching PB (&J?) series, I dusted off my old PB1400 and booted it up. It's been in the closet for probably four years or so now, but it went straight back to life... with the AC adapter in of course. I think the battery is shot, but everything else seems to work. It's running OS 8.6 but I have 9.1 somewhere so I'll try to put that on there. It's amazing what you can manage to press into only 750Mb of harddrive :-) Thanks so much for sharing your wifi story! I have been thinking about wifi for the 1400 but haven't got around to doing anything about, but now I have some directions to follow - thanks dude!
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No WiFi on my 1400
2006-01-23 12:08:06 smileyme [Reply | View]
I want to go wireless with my 1400, and have bought an AP and Orinoco PC card for it. I downloaded the 7.2 driver, burned it to CD and copied it to the 1400. When I try to install the driver, I get the message "The Application "installer" could not be opened because "Util_Lib" could not be found." This first appeared in OS 8.6, so I upgraded to OS 9.1 thinking It would install the "Util_Lib". However, It still gives me the same message.
Anyone have any suggestions?
Rick :)
LloydC
P.S. I'm running OS 9.1 with 64 MB RAM, and prior to insterting the Dell card, I could connect via modem card without trouble.