[SOLVED] Help me fix Airport not working on PowerBook G4 titanium.

[Apple Fan 2008]

My airport card is not working with my Wi-Fi on this titanium PowerBook. Is there a way to fix this?

 

[eyoungren]

Do you have any spaces or special characters in your WEP password by any chance?

Also, it IS a WEP network you are connecting to right? Not WPA2 or anything else?

Also, you realize that with 10.4.11 you can connect to WPA networks right?

 

[mustagcoupe]

The problem is modern wifi routers do not generally support wep security. Its very unsafe and easily broken. Try changing the security box to wpa or wpa2 if thats an option. If you really need to use it wirelessly you might be better served with a cardbus wifi g/n card or one of those ethernet to wifi bridges or just plain old ethernet. I doubt you would really want to use the original airport these days anyway. Its wifi b which is very slow. If you do want to use the original airport the easiest thing to do is probably buy an old used wifi router, set it up with wep security and turn it off when your not using it so people cant hack in.

Here is another thread with more info: https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/original-airport-card-wifi-b-and-wpa-wpa2.1816914/

 

[Apple Fan 2008]

ill try thanks
(update) WPA is not an option 🙁

 

[lepidotós]

Get a $20 PCMCIA 802.11n card and shove it in the side of your PowerBook. See if that solves the issue.​

 

[weckart]

Get a $20 PCMCIA 802.11n card and shove it in the side of your PowerBook. See if that solves the issue.​

Only very specific ones will work, though but the problem is still software based: WPA/TKIP support. Most routers these days prefer WPA2/AES

 

[Apple Fan 2008]

Only very specific ones will work, though but the problem is still software based: WPA/TKIP support. Most routers these days prefer WPA2/AES

Thanks for your help but I already found a solution. Jankey, yes but it works!

 

[weckart]

Not janky at all. I have a dead spot in my bedroom, so I feed the internet signal via some powerline units into my room and thence to an old AEBS. That one is set up for my older Macs.

 

[eyoungren]

Thanks for your help but I already found a solution. Jankey, yes but it works!

I have three of those, one I got at Goodwill for $20 or so. 2.4/5Ghz and WPA2.

Turn off DHCP, assign an out of range IP address, plug into main router and away we go. Also serves up external drives to the network. 😀