Responding to your question re OS X on a PPC 8500 with a G3 upgrade card. It's doable, at least as far as OS X Server is concerned. I used the great little hack, XPostFacto, from Ryan Rempel at http://eshop.macsales.com/OSXCenter/XPostFacto/ .
I stopped using it because I decided the whole "Apple Server" thing was too oriented toward Mac only networks. I'll probably wipe the drive and put plain OS X on it in the future and use it for SMTP and backup storage.
The Aqua GUI will probably be too slow for every day use though.
I had a rather unusual requirment; being able to use the 'net from an underground tornado shelter in order to monitor weather bureau radar. My one use of the shelter had me feeling safe but isolated from the progress of the storm.
My solution was to use the Pismo with the external Silver card attached to an enternal antenna mounted outside on one of the air ventilation pipes.
The antenna, from http://www.fab-corp.com/, is a 9.3 dBi directional patch 4.5 in. square.
Casual trials before I mounted it allowed me to reach my AP from any point on my 2 acre property so if I was to guess I'd say the range increased by 300%.
While my Pismo doesn't suffer from the range limitations of the TiBook, I do have a need to occasionally increase my reach with an external antenna. The OS X driver mentioned in other posts, http://wirelessdriver.sourceforge.net/, works well with a Lucent Silver card I picked up for $50. My built-in Airport card remains port en1 and the external card shows up as en2.
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I stopped using it because I decided the whole "Apple Server" thing was too oriented toward Mac only networks. I'll probably wipe the drive and put plain OS X on it in the future and use it for SMTP and backup storage.
The Aqua GUI will probably be too slow for every day use though.
I had a rather unusual requirment; being able to use the 'net from an underground tornado shelter in order to monitor weather bureau radar. My one use of the shelter had me feeling safe but isolated from the progress of the storm. My solution was to use the Pismo with the external Silver card attached to an enternal antenna mounted outside on one of the air ventilation pipes. The antenna, from http://www.fab-corp.com/, is a 9.3 dBi directional patch 4.5 in. square. Casual trials before I mounted it allowed me to reach my AP from any point on my 2 acre property so if I was to guess I'd say the range increased by 300%.
While my Pismo doesn't suffer from the range limitations of the TiBook, I do have a need to occasionally increase my reach with an external antenna. The OS X driver mentioned in other posts, http://wirelessdriver.sourceforge.net/, works well with a Lucent Silver card I picked up for $50. My built-in Airport card remains port en1 and the external card shows up as en2.