Powerbook 15" with airport extreme can´t find anything

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zenarcadezenarcade
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in Genius Bar edited January 2014
This is so weird....



Installed the airport express card, it get´s recognized by the powerbook. The software says 3.4.2b. This has happened :



My network is . G4 Cube with airport. iMac indigo with airport. ibook g3 with airport. Everything is happy. Everything is on the internet.



My pBook G4 is not. Once I managed to be on the internet for a couple of minutes, then it disappeared for good. The distance is 2 meters.



Also, I plugged in another airport basestation, which gets recognized by all the others, except my pBook. What can it be ? Very very frustrating !

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  • Reply 1 of 8
    charliehorsecharliehorse Posts: 67member
    download airport 4.1 from softaware update. Or the airport only allows a certain amount of computers on one network?
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  • Reply 2 of 8
    zenarcadezenarcade Posts: 126member
    hmm.

    Usually, only the G4 Cube is on. And again, I have been on the internet for a couple of minutes. Once or twice. I will download ver4.1 and give it a try



    BTW. I am not using an Airport Basestation from the adsl modem.
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  • Reply 3 of 8
    neutrino23neutrino23 Posts: 1,575member
    Does this PB work wirelessly elsewhere? It could be some sort of hardware problem with the PB; airport card not fully seated, antenna cable not fully seated, antenna wire pinched internally. How many bars do you see in the airport icon on the menu bar?
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  • Reply 4 of 8
    e1618978e1618978 Posts: 6,075member
    Try it further away from the basestation - if you are too close the receiver might get overloaded.
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  • Reply 5 of 8
    zenarcadezenarcade Posts: 126member
    Hmm

    I got inspired today and I created a mac-to-mac network with the PowerBook. When I go to my indigo iMac, the indigo sees the network and connects to it. Though I don´t get to do anything (?) with it, clearly the airport-express card in the powerbook isn´t dead.



    BTW, the network is based on 802.11.b can that be a problem ?



    thanks for all hints
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  • Reply 6 of 8
    charliehorsecharliehorse Posts: 67member
    802.11 is the standard. how could there ever be any problems. Thousands use it every day!
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  • Reply 7 of 8
    daveleedavelee Posts: 245member
    As neutrino23 says, it may be a hardware issue.



    It is very important that when you install the express card, the antenna cable is connected with a definite click.
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  • Reply 8 of 8
    zenarcadezenarcade Posts: 126member
    [hello again]



    still with no connectiosn to the network, on sunday 6feb my pBook got trapped in kernel panics. Again and again and again.



    I reformatted my pBook but to no avail. I then removed the airport card and now, it is humming along smoothly.



    Obviously, this has been a hardware problem all along. It will be returned.



    Thanks for all inputs !



    Zon
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