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Wifi and Powerbook

sonter

# 1
Just looking around

Posts: 12 from 2012/6/24

Newbie question here, sorry if this has been discussed elsewhere.
I have a powerbook 5,7 and just installed morphos 3.2 cause I understand it added wifi support, but is the internal wifi card of the powerbook supported? i was not able to add it as a device. if i have to get a third party one, is there a list somewhere of supported devices ?

thanks for any help
»01.06.13 - 20:44

Intuition

# 2
Paladin of the Pegasos

Posts: 1110 from 2013/5/24

From: Nederland

Any Atheros 5000 based PCCard should work. I have a Netgear Wg511T and it works a treat at 108Mbps.

See this thread for more.
https://morph.zone/modules/newbb_plus/viewtopic.php?topic_id=9235&forum=11
1.67GHz 15" PowerBook G4, 1GB RAM, 128MB Radeon 9700M Pro, 64GB SSD, MorphOS 3.15

2.7GHz DP G5, 4GB RAM, 512MB Radeon X1950 Pro, 500GB SSHD, MorphOS 3.9
»01.06.13 - 20:50

sonter

# 3
Just looking around

Posts: 12 from 2012/6/24

brilliant, thank you
»01.06.13 - 21:16

bash64

# 4
Priest of the Order of the Butterfly

Posts: 934 from 2010/10/29

From: USA

just ordered a Netgear Wg511T.
$925 shipped

Powerbook G4 1.67ghz 2GB, ATI 9700M Pro 128mb
1TB hd, DL-DVD Burner, Netgear pcmcia wireless card.
Powermac G5 2.3ghz 2GB, ATI 9600 Pro
ImageFX 4.5, PageStream 3.3, PhotoGenics 5.0
»01.06.13 - 23:20

stephen_robinson

# 5
Priest of the Order of the Butterfly

Posts: 746 from 2007/4/22

$925? Sounds a bit pricy.
»01.06.13 - 23:22

bash64

# 6
Priest of the Order of the Butterfly

Posts: 934 from 2010/10/29

From: USA

You know, it does.

Powerbook G4 1.67ghz 2GB, ATI 9700M Pro 128mb
1TB hd, DL-DVD Burner, Netgear pcmcia wireless card.
Powermac G5 2.3ghz 2GB, ATI 9600 Pro
ImageFX 4.5, PageStream 3.3, PhotoGenics 5.0
»01.06.13 - 23:27

Ingo

# 7
Acolyte of the Butterfly

Posts: 103 from 2004/3/20

From: #AmigaZeux

I bought one of those for 9,- Euro!
»01.06.13 - 23:31

Intuition

# 8
Paladin of the Pegasos

Posts: 1110 from 2013/5/24

From: Nederland

Ingo,
Quote:

I bought one of those for 9,- Euro!

That was a good bargain! :)

I got mine free with a Netgear router years ago (2005/6 maybe) and haven't had any use for it until now.
1.67GHz 15" PowerBook G4, 1GB RAM, 128MB Radeon 9700M Pro, 64GB SSD, MorphOS 3.15

2.7GHz DP G5, 4GB RAM, 512MB Radeon X1950 Pro, 500GB SSHD, MorphOS 3.9
»01.06.13 - 23:51

Andreas_Wolf

# 9
Yokemate of Keyboards

Posts: 12079 from 2003/5/22

From: Germany

> is the internal wifi card of the powerbook supported?

https://morph.zone/modules/newbb_plus/viewtopic.php?topic_id=9235&forum=11&start=9
»02.06.13 - 01:59

rebraist

# 10
Butterfly

Posts: 96 from 2011/4/6

From: Naples, Italy

Hi! I have a 5.6 powerbook with morphos 3.5 and a netgear wl511t.
I was able to connect to a g wlan with wpa2, the semaphore goes green.
But there was no way to connect to any site: "Error 6: Couldn't resolve host name"
I had to change from dhcp to static ip (i have dhcp enabled and all tablets, smartphones and laptops in my house use dhcp) and it all worked fine.
Mac Mini g4 1,5 mos 3.1 registered
Powerbook g4 1,67 mos 3.1 unregistered
Sam440 Os4.1.6
Aros-Aros-Aros.
»22.02.14 - 13:14

Kronos

# 11
Moderator

Posts: 2239 from 2003/2/24

DHCP has the tendency ton work when there is a reboot between setup and 1st use.

Atleast thats the experience I make when I add a new WLAN to the list (known WLANs connect out of the box).
»22.02.14 - 13:23