Re: [Wirelessdriver-support] internal card for titanium?

[nigel k. <ni...@4t...>]

On Saturday, Oct 19, 2002, at 03:09 Australia/Sydney, David Ross wrote:

>> I think this needs to be said and probably should be in the FAQ:
>>
>> You *cannot* replace the internal Airport card on a PowerBook or 
>> iBook with a PCCard.  The Airport cards use a proprietary bus that is 
>> much closer in design to an IDE interface than a PCCard.


Just to be even more explicit, you cannot put *ANYTHING* other than an 
Airport card in an Airport slot in *ANY* Macintosh. It may have the 
form factor of a PC Card, but it isn't a PC Card slot.

I ran across a post by an Apple engineer on some forum where someone 
was trying to get a non-Airport card running in his desktop G4 Airport 
slot, who freaked out, saying that the voltages were completely 
different and he was likely to ruin his motherboard.



nigel