connect old G4 PwrBook to Linksys WRT54G
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The Aircard came with my tiBook. The little radiowaves are grayed out. It worked great back when I had the old airport spaceship thing, but that finally died. I've connected when I'm out at Panera's or something, but at home I try to connect, put in that horribly long WPA Shared Key, and I get nothing.
Is there some old issue about the 802.11g not working with my older card?
Is there some old issue about the 802.11g not working with my older card?
jodelli
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I have an iBook with an Airport card and 10.4.11 on it and it works with a WBR 1310 D-Link.
Your G4 Power Book will work too so that's not the problem.
Suggest that you use at least 10.3 or better yet 10.4 on that machine as 10.2.8 is not the best choice for networking. It is getting old after all.
Example: I once had a Wallstreet with 10.2.8. It was far easier for me to network the drives between it and a Power Mac G4 using the 10.3 installed on the Power Mac than the other way around.
Your G4 Power Book will work too so that's not the problem.
Suggest that you use at least 10.3 or better yet 10.4 on that machine as 10.2.8 is not the best choice for networking. It is getting old after all.
Example: I once had a Wallstreet with 10.2.8. It was far easier for me to network the drives between it and a Power Mac G4 using the 10.3 installed on the Power Mac than the other way around.
merl1n
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On your Linksys, make sure that you have a/b/g enabled in the Wireless Setup as the Ti (I believe) Airport Card only supported "802.11b".
You may also want to try to configure another location in the Network Pane of System Prefs, select Airport and Select your network. Click join and enter your WPA password. However using 10.2.x I don't remember if it actually supported WPA. You may have to change to WEP encryption.
I discovered that if I disable security the little radio waves fill in full-power and I connect just great. But no security is not a good thing.
Is there a setting that allows me to have some security and connectivity? WEP, WPA Personal, WPA Enterprise? I don't see a way to change the 801.11 to a/b/g or otherwise. If anyone has any other input on this, please do.
-thx
Is there a setting that allows me to have some security and connectivity? WEP, WPA Personal, WPA Enterprise? I don't see a way to change the 801.11 to a/b/g or otherwise. If anyone has any other input on this, please do.
-thx
California
macrumors 68040
I happened to notice that there is a pci card (it will fit in the side of your Tibook in the pci slot on the left side) available on eBay that will blow your old airport card out of the water. You can then sell your old airport card for more money than you paid for this and also get yourself at least a Panther 10.3 disk for your old TIbook. That 10.2 jaguar sux.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=320239380264&ssPageName=STRK:MEWA:IT&ih=011
Oh and Tina, you need to bump up your memory on the Tibook. You need to max out your ram on the Tibook. You should buy two 512mb PC133 144 pin chips. Sell your two 256mb PC133 144 chips that you have in there, unless you happen to have only one 512mb chip and one empty ram slot (but I doubt it) I seem to recall that Tibook (I used to own that one) came with two 256mb chips installed. More ram, and get a faster hard drive and get that PCI card on eBay.
merl1n
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You can set up WEP.
On the Linksys, go into Wireless -> Basic settings and set the mode for "Mixed". Then go to the Wireless Security Tab and set your mode to WEP128 bit. Enter a new paraphrase which will generate 3 hexadecimal keys. And chose which one will be used.
On the mac in Network Settings for the Airport, you need to enter the "hexadecimal code" key you selected for the password. Note you may have to start the password with a dollar ($) sign followed by the key that was generated. This was for OSX 10.2.x. Try it first without the dollar sign and see if that works. If not try it with the leading $ sign.
Note that if you change to WEP security, all other computers on your network using wireless must be changed as well.
velocityg4
macrumors 604
Since you can connect to your network without security enabled on your router it sounds as though nothing is particularly wrong with you Airport Card nor Router. So you are able to browse the internet and see other computers on your network, assuming you use file/printer sharing, correct?
Any ways in your Setup tab
you have wireless set to mixed
SSID and channel are set to something, say "default" and 6. and SSID broadcast is enabled
For edit WEP settings start with 64bits since less inputting is required
Do not bother with a passphrase for just go to key 1 and enter something easy like
1234567890
Make key 1 the default key
leave all other keys blank
hit the Apply button
in the setup window hit apply again to be sure "unless you are already booted off the network"
On your power book set up a new location for airport and try to connect you should be prompted to enter the security key, passphrase etc
enter your passphrase
1234567890
If you are not prompted for a key then you powerbook is probably trying to use some non-existant or incorrect key to login. Though I can not recall how to do it in 10.2 you need to remove the key from your keychain file in Applications -> utilities. And in system preferences reset airport to its default settings. ie Use DHCP automatic, clear your preferred network list
You should connect though. If this works then go back and change your routers security key this time choose 128bit and enter a random 26 digit hexadecimal key "0-9" "A-F" are allowed digits. There is no need for entering anything in keys 2-4 just leave them blank.
If none of this works you could also try out MAC filtering though less secure it sets a list for your router of allowed computers and is supposed to keep invalid computers off of your network.
Also you should download the latest firmware for your router from Linksys.com. As for your Airport card any firmware update should have been included with OS X's Software Update.
Any ways in your Setup tab
you have wireless set to mixed
SSID and channel are set to something, say "default" and 6. and SSID broadcast is enabled
For edit WEP settings start with 64bits since less inputting is required
Do not bother with a passphrase for just go to key 1 and enter something easy like
1234567890
Make key 1 the default key
leave all other keys blank
hit the Apply button
in the setup window hit apply again to be sure "unless you are already booted off the network"
On your power book set up a new location for airport and try to connect you should be prompted to enter the security key, passphrase etc
enter your passphrase
1234567890
If you are not prompted for a key then you powerbook is probably trying to use some non-existant or incorrect key to login. Though I can not recall how to do it in 10.2 you need to remove the key from your keychain file in Applications -> utilities. And in system preferences reset airport to its default settings. ie Use DHCP automatic, clear your preferred network list
You should connect though. If this works then go back and change your routers security key this time choose 128bit and enter a random 26 digit hexadecimal key "0-9" "A-F" are allowed digits. There is no need for entering anything in keys 2-4 just leave them blank.
If none of this works you could also try out MAC filtering though less secure it sets a list for your router of allowed computers and is supposed to keep invalid computers off of your network.
Also you should download the latest firmware for your router from Linksys.com. As for your Airport card any firmware update should have been included with OS X's Software Update.
velocityg4
macrumors 604
I don't use it too much. Mainly for Rescue! 2.0.5 the most awesome game ever and other old school games. Though I have been considering anThanks Velocity. I'll try it. BTW, love that you're still running a Quadra. That's good stuff there!
IIgs for Odell Lake and Oregon Trail
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