Perhaps someone here can enlighten me as to what to try next. I've searched the net and can't find anything describing this issue. Maybe someone here has seen something similar.
This Lombard is running OS X 10.3.9 and has been using a Motorola WN825G PCMCIA wireless card for about a year. Recently, this card refuses to power on regularly. It started a couple weeks ago where it wouldn't power up one night in the bedroom, but I brought it out to the main area next to the router and it worked fine. That night, again in the bedroom, it refused to power up and has not powered up since. Indications are the power and link LED lites are dim and I do get a card icon in the Finder with the options "Unknown Vendor" and "Network Controller" grayed out. The only option I have is to power the card off which removes the icon until I remove and reinsert the card. Network Preferences show that Airport is off which is true if there's no power to the card.
I don't have any other PCMCIA card to plug in to check the port and I don't have any other machine to plug this card into. I suspect that the card is OK and that this might be a motherboard issue. The reason I say that is because this machine refuses to run on the battery and I know the battery is good (four green lights). I replaced the charger board, DC board, main and PRAM batteries last year with no results.
Does anyone know a series of commands I can use to force power to be applied or removed to the port? Status the port?
Where does the power to the PCMCIA slot originate? Motherboard? DC board?
As an alternative, I picked up a Netgear wireless USB adapter that works but the driver doesn't allow me to save changes. I have to put the wireless key in each time I use it. A pain, yes, but it works.
Any insight would be appreciated.
This Lombard is running OS X 10.3.9 and has been using a Motorola WN825G PCMCIA wireless card for about a year. Recently, this card refuses to power on regularly. It started a couple weeks ago where it wouldn't power up one night in the bedroom, but I brought it out to the main area next to the router and it worked fine. That night, again in the bedroom, it refused to power up and has not powered up since. Indications are the power and link LED lites are dim and I do get a card icon in the Finder with the options "Unknown Vendor" and "Network Controller" grayed out. The only option I have is to power the card off which removes the icon until I remove and reinsert the card. Network Preferences show that Airport is off which is true if there's no power to the card.
I don't have any other PCMCIA card to plug in to check the port and I don't have any other machine to plug this card into. I suspect that the card is OK and that this might be a motherboard issue. The reason I say that is because this machine refuses to run on the battery and I know the battery is good (four green lights). I replaced the charger board, DC board, main and PRAM batteries last year with no results.
Does anyone know a series of commands I can use to force power to be applied or removed to the port? Status the port?
Where does the power to the PCMCIA slot originate? Motherboard? DC board?
As an alternative, I picked up a Netgear wireless USB adapter that works but the driver doesn't allow me to save changes. I have to put the wireless key in each time I use it. A pain, yes, but it works.
Any insight would be appreciated.
