Alternative for Airport Extreme cards?

[Depili]

As I'm thinking of buying a new iBook I'm just wondering, are there any other wireless cards that install in the airport extreme slot, as I would like to have linux drivers for the wireless card and Broadcomm (the manufacturer of the AE chipset) is refusing to give out any documentation making writing drivers quite hard.

 

[robbieduncan]

Basically none. It is an Apple Propietary slot and on an iBook you do not get PCMCIA. sorry.

 

[Depili]

too bad, since there ain't many usb wireless cards with linux support on ppc either, seems like I have to settle to using the wlan only from osx.

Too bad that you can't install normal airport cards to a airport extreme ready laptops :/

 

[Nik_Doof]

Originally posted by robbieduncan
Basically none. It is an Apple Propietary slot and on an iBook you do not get PCMCIA. sorry.

Not stricltly true, the slot is a Mini-PCI connector. I've seen a few of these in older Samsung laptops with ORRiNOCO Wifi cards. But im my opinion you wont get a non-apple card in there....you could try but you'd just risk causing damage to your self or even worse your ibook.

[edit]

yah its a propietary layout for the connector, but the interface is standard:

http://www.tomshardware.com/network/20011210/nic-04.html

[edit again]

Yup, just checked on a hardware inventory site...nicely listed as:

- Apple MiniPCI Card Model# AirPort Extreme