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Wireless Hacks for G4 PowerBooks?

Posted by Cliff on from the no-wireless-for-you! dept.

NunDLess asks: "G4 PowerBooks have absolutely dreadful wireless range due, I've been told, to the fact that the internal antennas are underneath that slick Titanium case. Has anyone heard about a way to set up an external wireless antenna on a PowerBook? I've been looking for supported PCMCIA wireless cards, but haven't found one with Mac OS X drivers."

3 of 61 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Is titanium case the real culpurit ? by dhartshorn · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Well, you start by putting aircraft antennas outside the plane.

  2. shouldn't be a problem by elliotj · · Score: 3, Insightful

    802.11b is just giving you the ethernet. IPSec operates at a higher layer of the OSI model so you shouldn't have any problems. If you can implement it on your Mac, you'll be able to use it w/ airport.

  3. PCMCIA Wireless card drivers for Mac OS X by ajna · · Score: 2, Insightful

    ... can be found at http://homepage.mac.com/robm

    When I had a Powerbook instead of this lovely G4 tower, I ran a Cabletron wireless card with the above driver, and it worked splendidly, provided that one didn't remove the card when the computer was expecting to use it.