I'm having problems with Airport on my Powerbook G4 17" 1Ghz. Sometimes when I boot up it sees the card and works fine. Other times I'll boot up and it says No Airport card installed. The Software Restore disk sees the card and says its fine all the time. Any help?
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PowerBook G4 17" 1GHz & Airport problems
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Sounds like a hardware fault to me, have you tried all the usual permissions and fsck stuff?
Hard resetting the machine cured a Bluetooth problem I had a while back that was reporting missing hardware, instead of restarting the machine, shut it down, wait for 30 secs or so then restart, 30 secs is way too long really, but works.
That might cure your problem, was it a factory installed card, I'm pretty sure all the 17's came woth the card as standard, mine did.
I'd suggest you have a quiet word with Apple though.
Hard resetting the machine cured a Bluetooth problem I had a while back that was reporting missing hardware, instead of restarting the machine, shut it down, wait for 30 secs or so then restart, 30 secs is way too long really, but works.
That might cure your problem, was it a factory installed card, I'm pretty sure all the 17's came woth the card as standard, mine did.
I'd suggest you have a quiet word with Apple though.
Repairing disk and permissions didn't help
I've tried shutting it down and waitting hours then hours and rebooting. Also tried repairing the disk (fsk) and repairing permissions but they didn't help.
I've talked to the local apple rep and he's clueless as to why it sees the card sometimes and other times not.
I've tried shutting it down and waitting hours then hours and rebooting. Also tried repairing the disk (fsk) and repairing permissions but they didn't help.
I've talked to the local apple rep and he's clueless as to why it sees the card sometimes and other times not.
I'm also having problems
Hi I'm also having problems with Airport on my Powerbook G4 17" 1Ghz.
After hangi'n on VPC 6.1 it said "No Airport card installed". When rebooting on my FW-backup it was all fine again. Rebooting back on harddrive again (with the FW-disk un plugged) and it was up and running as normal... :-D, Running nicely for about a week. It's now back to "No Airport card installed". Now I can't get it back on track :-( Any help? (Been doing back-ups meantime.)
Hi I'm also having problems with Airport on my Powerbook G4 17" 1Ghz.
After hangi'n on VPC 6.1 it said "No Airport card installed". When rebooting on my FW-backup it was all fine again. Rebooting back on harddrive again (with the FW-disk un plugged) and it was up and running as normal... :-D, Running nicely for about a week. It's now back to "No Airport card installed". Now I can't get it back on track :-( Any help? (Been doing back-ups meantime.)
cifri said:
Mine's running fine, never had a problem.
What OS version are you on, and have you updated the airport firmware and software lately?
I've got 10.3.6, with an AE basestation on V5.5 firmware with Wireless Card Firmware Version: 3.4.4f5 (3.50.37.p4).
What OS version are you on, and have you updated the airport firmware and software lately?
I've got 10.3.6, with an AE basestation on V5.5 firmware with Wireless Card Firmware Version: 3.4.4f5 (3.50.37.p4).
