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Reply #15 on: August 28, 2007, 02:10
I got 2 Silver Orinocos by post today. Both in strong original boxes with padding. Everything went fine with the first one, except it do not work. The 2nd works fine, both are visible on the desktop and all, nothing is loose, no marks on the cards. Do you have access to another wlan card, just to check, incase yours is actually broken. You have already covered all the other possibilities. |
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pyrophoric
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Reply #16 on: August 28, 2007, 07:56
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Well, no, and I haven't successfully used the card. The only other PCMCIA cards I have laying around are an old ethernet card, and an even older kodak CF card reader. Neither say specifically 16-bit on them, so I suppose there is the chance they could be 32-bit, hence the powerbook completely ignoring them. But, since the card fired right up in my windoze laptop, I am convinced that the card is at least marginally functional... One of the Techs at Wegener Media told me it sounds like the controller chip on the Logic Board has failed, in which case, the logic board is more or less junk... I am also going to talk to the chap who sold me the laptop, as he had two 1400's for sale. I might be able to trade, or at least play around with the other one, to see if it likes my card...
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wall
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Reply #17 on: August 28, 2007, 10:22
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Sounds like a good plan
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sierraredd
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Reply #18 on: August 30, 2007, 01:58
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It could be logic failure. Try powerbookguy.com instead of wegener, they tend to have iffy issues and pbguy can do good deals if you contact him by email. Replacing the logic board isn't that bad. I've done 3 now, takes less than 30 minutes. Are you positive the wifi is 16 bit? What was the windoze machine, 32 or 16? I'd say be patient and look into all the options before giving up.
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pyrophoric
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Reply #19 on: August 30, 2007, 08:41
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W00T!!!!! I got it working! I met up with the fellow I bought the Powerbook from, and he sold me a 1400cs to harvest for parts. I came home and set to work on it immediately... Basically put all the good parts from my 1400c into the bottom half of the cs- the hard-drive, the ram, the G3 processor, and of course, the LCD. I fired it up, and Voila! My wireless card works, as does my CF reader! It was definitely a logic board issue. Now I am just tinkering around trying to get the internet working... but I am up and running! I am so glad I did not give up... I was about ready to toss my 1400 into Lake Michigan, lol! Thanks everybody for your help- and encouragement! Also- thanks for the tip about powerbookguy.com- neat website!
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dpaanlka
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Reply #20 on: August 30, 2007, 15:58
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If you have a plain jane wireless router set to provide settings via DHCP, you should be able to just set the TCP/IP control panel to the wireless card and have internet.
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pyrophoric
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Reply #21 on: August 30, 2007, 23:44
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the goofy thing now is that it connects to my network, DHCP assigns it an IP, and both the router and the powerbook show as connected- I can even see it on my OS X machine as available for filesharing (but get an incompatible version message when I try to connect via finder) But... it will not load a webpage. I tried both opera and netscape, they just try for a few minutes to load a page, but access nothing. I can even punch in 192.168.1.1 on the laptop and login into my router config page, but that is it... I also tried connecting through internet sharing via my airport card in the OS X machine... same thing. Weirdness. I also install system 8.6 onto a compact flash card in the lower slot, and booted it, and set up the orinoco drivers in there... same thing. Everything functions as it should, except... the browser can load nothing. i dunno. maybe a firewall issue or something with my router. I'll play around with it some more after class... And no, I haven't dared throw WEP into the mix yet. might just settle for MAC filtering to keep the neighbors out...
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dpaanlka
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Reply #22 on: August 31, 2007, 03:24
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OK, go back to the original situation in your previous post - computer connected to router and getting an IP address. Now do this... Go into TCP/IP, and where it says "Name server addr:" type the following in exactly as shown: 4.2.2.1 4.2.2.2 4.2.2.3 4.2.2.4 Close TCP/IP, and then (re)launch Netscape or whatever browser, and see if it connects you.
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pyrophoric
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Reply #23 on: September 01, 2007, 07:37
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I'm online! Tried your suggestion, but no luck... then tinkered with my router a bit more and disabled "Stateful Packet Inspection", and that did the trick! I'm not sure if it was just dropping every packet directed to the laptop or what, but, hey, i'm online! As an amusing sidenote, I noticed that two of my neighbors started piggybacking in under an hour... I switched WPA back on for now, will set up MAC filtering for all my toys later. Thanks for the help!
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wall
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Reply #24 on: September 03, 2007, 21:22
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Congrat, well done!
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