Article:		The Penny-Pinching PowerBook 1400 Goes Wireless
Subject:		can't get it to work on my PB 1400c
Date:		2003-10-15 11:16:31
From:		powell789
Response to: can't get it to work on my PB 1400c
another thought-- the powerbook 1400 you describe in the article has a G3 upgrade I think.... whereas my 1400c is a standard model. Does the G3 upgrade also provide the PC Card Manager 3.0 that Orinoco says is required for its driver? If so, how about another driver, such as an older version of Orinoco's driver (if so where can I get it), or some other driver?

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• can't get it to work on my PB 1400c
  2003-10-15 15:18:52  anonymous2 [View]
  
  
  Nope.
  
  This was a vanilla 1400. I mentioned that I opted not to upgrade because of the unrealistic price of the G3 upgrades. And a G4 makes no sense whasoever since it can't run OS X.
  
  You are also physically limited to a 16-bit card bus. Only way to get a 32-bit card bus is to buy a Powerbook that has 32-bit card bus architecture.
  
  Mike
  
• can't get it to work on my PB 1400c
  2003-10-16 10:44:31  powell789 [View]
  
  
  I called a friend who's a sort of I.T. guy, and he brought his Windoze laptop with the objective to try to update the firmware on the WiFi PC card. After a few hours, he was still unable to do so, although he did manage to communicate with the card and gets its lights to flash. Finally he gave me another similar Lucent "Silver" card to try... voila! it works!
  
  SO: the moral to this story seems to be, that the Lucent card MAY work with a PB 1400, and the Orinico 7.2 driver DOES work with the PB 1400 (despite assurances by Orinoco that it can't because it requires PC Card Manager 3), but for some reasons SOME Lucent cards just don't work, or require a firmware update, perhaps, to get them to work.
  
  Is it now clear as mud??