[Wirelessdriver-support] Re: Silly Question

[ard j. <ard...@xs...>]

>Is the apple airport card a PCMCIA card?  If so, couldn't an Orinoco Card
>be installed internally in my iBook?  Just curious.  Has anyone managed to
>get another wireless card inside of their iBook.  Just asking because I
>don't have an external PCMCIA slot like powerbooks do.

The apple airport card slot is not a PCMCIA card slot, though it 
looks like one. This in contrast with the slot in the Airport Base 
station, which was known to be canibalized for its internal PCMCIA 
card in the early days of wifi. The orinoco does have an antenna slot 
that you can open by prying off a tiny plug.

If you want to use other than built-in airport cards (they are stil 
available in limited quantities here and there) your option is to use 
a USB device. They come in formfactor of a USB stick or a box with a 
USB extension cord. You probably want to go for a PRISM2 device. 
There is a hack describing the MA101 USB stick to be used as a 
wireless device on the wifi pages at www.binaervarianz.de at the 
Kismac pages.

Ard