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    Andreas_Wolf
    Posts: 12077 from 2003/5/22
    From: Germany
    > Do you think a driver tweak would be enough?

    That's what the driver's author says (see the quote). Who am I to disagree with him?

    > what PCMCIA cards might a G4 running MorphOS use?

    The AirPort slot of the PowerMac G4 (except FW800 model) can use Apple's original AirPort card of course, that's what it's intended for after all. Besides, there seem to be some unofficial solutions:

    https://morph.zone/modules/newbb_plus/viewtopic.php?topic_id=6042&forum=11&post_id=82673#82673

    > I assume most of them would also require drivers.

    Drivers are *always* required of course. Luckily, the Prism2 driver for PCMCIA is already there for years, even MorphOS native:

    https://morph.zone/modules/newbb_plus/viewtopic.php?topic_id=7777&forum=11&post_id=82510#82510

    It's just that this driver would need some modifications adapting the hardware modifications Apple applied to turn PCMCIA into what became AirPort.

    > Every time I see an issue like this it makes me appreciate how much
    > work the team performs just getting the hardware to work

    While I very much appreciate the MorphOS Team's work as well, in this particular case they're not involved so far, and judging from what jacadcaps said it seems they're going to restrict themselves to "un-blacklisting" of device level access to the AirPort slot.

    > this would actually make it do MORE than Apple intended

    How so?
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