Clamshell iBook AirPort under OS9

[CelGen]

I own two tangerine iBooks and one has an AirPort card in it.

Because of its limited specs (128mb ram, 300mhz G3, 4mb Vram and a 12gb hard drive.) I decided to install 9.2.2 instead of 10.2 and everything seems good so far however I can't get the AirPort to work.

The system detects the card but opening the utility results in an error saying "An error (-3278) has occured while communicating with the AirPort driver."

And that's it.

From there on the utility will not close and it won't let you properly shit the system down because that error keeps popping up.

The card should be good but does anyone have any ideas?

 

[beachycove]

Two thoughts:

1. There is an Airport update available for OS9, as I recall, and though one would have thought it included in 9.2.2, you never know.... Worth a shot?

2. I mostly use 9.1 or else 9.2.1 when I use 9, so this may be wrong, but is 9.2.2 not intended as a bug fix for the "Classic" environment under X? In this case, it is just possible that some networking feature that 9.2.2 expects to be devolved to X is not present, thus causing the hiccup. That, however, is probably just idle speculation, so on second thought, ignore this second thought!

I seem to recall that I had similar problems when installing 9 and an Airport card in a Pismo, however, about 18 months ago, and that it has something to do with the system software rather than with the hardware.

 

[CelGen]

I don't know. I wasn't able to get it working under any sub versions of OS 9.

Also, if there is an update available, I can't get it. The MacOS update utility has always been hit and miss for me (and I was connectiong over a cat5 cable). Sometimes it connects to Apple and finds updates, other times it says it can't connect at all.

 

[beachycove]

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=120120

Software update for OS9 is not really maintained by Apple anymore, so far as I can see, and so seldom if ever works. You have to look for what you need.

 

[CelGen]

Unfortunately I already have the latest version (2.0.4?) if the AirPort software.