This question goes back many years, but maybe someone out there can help me out.
I'm prepping a great old lime green imac slot loading DV 400 (the one I bought for college several years back) for a second life as a kitchen mac. The computer needs wifi to be very useful for looking up recipes and whatnot.
I have an original Airport card I ganked from my dead iBook G3. I know I need a special adapter to connect the card. So I bought one of those little green adapters on ebay.
So the card and adapter are seated in the mac, with the antenna plugged in, and yet the computer does not recognize it has an airport card installed.
My attempts to remedy this have included: reseating the card about a dozen times, v-ram p-ram resets, repairing permissions, reinstalling 10.3 and doing a clean 10.2 install.
No dice.
Anyway, during my obsessions over this, I've come to realize the card adapter I bought on ebay does not have the little metal clip that goes around the card. Apple sometimes calls it a "ground clip" in it's material.
My question, thanks for sticking with me, is if this adapter is not functioning in my imac because it is missing the metal ground clip.
Here is what my clip-less adapter looks like: http://i1.ebayimg.com/02/i/000/f2/9d/5b46_1.JPG
With a clip:
http://www.macwireless.com/images/refurb/airport_card_adapter.jpg
Any help?
I'm prepping a great old lime green imac slot loading DV 400 (the one I bought for college several years back) for a second life as a kitchen mac. The computer needs wifi to be very useful for looking up recipes and whatnot.
I have an original Airport card I ganked from my dead iBook G3. I know I need a special adapter to connect the card. So I bought one of those little green adapters on ebay.
So the card and adapter are seated in the mac, with the antenna plugged in, and yet the computer does not recognize it has an airport card installed.
My attempts to remedy this have included: reseating the card about a dozen times, v-ram p-ram resets, repairing permissions, reinstalling 10.3 and doing a clean 10.2 install.
No dice.
Anyway, during my obsessions over this, I've come to realize the card adapter I bought on ebay does not have the little metal clip that goes around the card. Apple sometimes calls it a "ground clip" in it's material.
My question, thanks for sticking with me, is if this adapter is not functioning in my imac because it is missing the metal ground clip.
Here is what my clip-less adapter looks like: http://i1.ebayimg.com/02/i/000/f2/9d/5b46_1.JPG
With a clip:
http://www.macwireless.com/images/refurb/airport_card_adapter.jpg
Any help?