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If the screen is dark when you boot up, if you shine a flashlight on it (or thru the white apple on the back) you will likely see the desktop is indeed there, but you can't see it as the backlight hasn't turned itself on. Try using the screen brightness adjust keys (two keys with the "sun"...

An update: In the event it might prove of any interest or assistance to others along the way. Spoke with the Senior Tech at tech support at IOGEAR. No solutions found nor offered. As is too often the case, he was more interested in coming up with excuses as to why it won't work on my...

Cheryl, Thanks kindly for your response. Tried as you suggested but no luck. Also tried disabling couple of other Apple Firewire extensions and rebooting as well all with no success. OS9 (and Apple System Profiler) continues to refuse to recognize the Firewire port(s) on the iOGear card and...

Well, here goes! Have a iOGear Pcmcia Firewire/Usb 2.0 Combo card (model GUF202) , with an external Lacie d2 Extreme 160gb Firewire/USB Hard Drive, on a Powerbook G3 Lombard 333mhz, 512k ram, OS9.2/OSX 10.2.8. PROBLEM: Lombard will not recognize the Lacie d2 with Firewire in OS9...