Were Airport (original) PCI cards ever made?

[mectojic]

I have some B&W G3s, which were naturally made before the invention of the Airport wireless card.

I have a Airport Extreme PCI card, but that only works in OSX.

I'm curious about whether an Airport (original) PCI card was ever made, which would work under Mac OS 8.6 / OS 9?

 

[Amethyst1]

Low End Mac says the Sawtooth’s optional AirPort card was the same as the one for the iBook, so it’s not PCI.

But they are (based on Lucent WaveLAN Silver/Gold) PCMCIA cards, which can be put into a PCMCIA-to-PCI adapter.

 

[mectojic]

Low End Mac says the Sawtooth’s optional AirPort card was the same as the one for the iBook, so it’s not PCI.

But they are (based on Lucent WaveLAN Silver/Gold) PCMCIA cards, which can be put into a PCMCIA-to-PCI adapter.

I assume those Lucent PCMCIA cards were made for Powerbooks (Lombard/Wallstreet), I suppose the drivers for them would work the same in a PCI adapter on a B&W?

 

[Amethyst1]

I assume those Lucent PCMCIA cards were made for Powerbooks (Lombard/Wallstreet), I suppose the drivers for them would work the same in a PCI adapter on a B&W?

I’d hope so.

But: the Cardbus bridge on the PCI adapter also needs to be supported by Mac OS 8.x/9.x, so which ones are?

AFAICS...

• The TI PCI-1130 is used by the PowerBook 3400c which shipped with 8.0.
• The TI PCI-1131 is used by the Wallstreet which shipped with 8.0.
• The TI PCI-1211 is used by the Lombard which shipped with 8.6, Pismo which shipped with 9.0.4 and 400/500 MHz TiBook which shipped with 9.1.
• The TI PCI-1410 is used by the 667/800 MHz and 867 MHz/1 GHz TiBook which shipped with 9.2.2.

Update: this post (in French) is about adding an 802.11g card to a B&W G3 using a TI-based Cardbus-to-PCI adapter that “should” have worked… yet it didn’t. More info (in English).