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Macs with Airport slots have built in antenna. You just have to unhook the one that the pc card comes with and use the Macs. ---- Firewire iBook 466, 10gig, 320meg, Airport, OS X

Botht he Airport carda nd the Airport Base Station use Lucent Wavelan Silver Cards (40bit). The internal slot is just a PCMCIA slot, which is why under 9.x you could pop in a Gold (128bit) card and be good to go. Basically it's a question of whether the Airport drivers in X still support the...

Has anyone tried using a non Apple 802.11 card in the internal Airport slot under OSX? Something like the Lucent Wavelan Gold card... I ask only because my school's campus wireless LAN uses 128bit encryption, not the 40 Apple supports.

It works just fine on my 466 with 320meg ram. Having the computer be awake from sleep before it's finished opening is great

After spending some quality time on the commandline (boy is this a great OS) I've gottenn annoyed with the localhost in the prompt. How does one go about changing the hostname on the Unix level so the computer knows who it is? Setting it in the Sharing System panel (not suprisingly) had no effect.

Does anyone know a way to make the app menu an icon (like you could back in the day of the PB). It's quite annoying to have Project Builder's menus go under the clock on my iBook...