Airport Card and uopgrade to OS 10.5

Carybosse · #1 August 23rd, 2009, 10:04 PM

Took my wife's G4 Powerbook (12") with old operating system to MAC store to upgrade. They crashed the computer and handed a non-operative computer back to me. I managed to get it to boot, and most of software running (Photoshop 7 eludes me still.) However, airport card is not showing up. It was functioning prior to. Safari works, I am currently hardwire to do this. Any suggestions as to how to get computer to recognize I have an airport card?

DeltaMac · #2 August 23rd, 2009, 10:35 PM

You'll never get Photoshop 7 to work with Leopard. It's just too old.

If you flip your PowerBook over, and remove the main battery, you can open the little door where the Airport card is installed. You don't even need to remove any screws to try this. You'll see the small antenna wire that plugs into that airport card, so you gently disconnect that antenna, then grab the clear tab, and slide the card out of its slot. Push firmly back into that slot. If you get confused which side is up - the bar code should face out when you slide the card in place. You'll probably hear a faint 'click' when the card is fully seated. Reattach the antenna wire. Close the little hatch, then reinsert the main battery.
Restart your PowerBook while holding the Option-Command (Apple)-P and R keys. You should hear the startup chime sound. Keep holding those same 4 keys until you hear the chime 2 more times, then release the keys to let your PowerBook boot normally.
Try your Airport card.

Carybosse · #3 August 24th, 2009, 09:47 AM

Thanks, I am not at home right now to try, I did not know (or at least remember) the steps with holding down keys while booting. I had already tried re-seating the airport card. Little frustrating how the guys at the MAC store crashed the computer and then handed it back to us, saying they could fix it for a downpayment of $350 on a several year old computer.

Is there a way to open up on Leopard a "classic" window or something that allows older software to run?

Jesse714 · #4 August 24th, 2009, 04:14 PM

Nope- Like stated- Photoshop seven will Never run on Leopard.

The classic window in System Preferences is for OS 9

icemanjc · #5 August 24th, 2009, 05:08 PM

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Originally Posted by Carybosse

Is there a way to open up on Leopard a "classic" window or something that allows older software to run?

Classic I believe was discontinued when Mac OS 10.5 came about, which means you are stuck running OS X native programs.

Unless of course you are really desperate and in that case you can get SheepShaver to run Mac OS 9.

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