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The goal of this post as been to explain how to get cheap TrendNet PCMCIA Wifi to work on (in) my G3 iBook. But, it's finally a simpler message : don't believe the Web's legends.

There is no PCMCIA slot in the iBook. Oh my god, what did he said ?! I repeat, this is NOT a REAL PCCARD slot but just an ersatz of a PCMCIA slot. Here is the game just played. I have cut off most part of the external circuit of the TrendNet card. Two leds and two capacitors, that's what i've just lost.

This smaller card can now go right under the keyboard of the ibook but you know what... there is no PCCARD support for the slot neither in Linux, or in Mac OS X. The hacks that's you can see on the Web only works for Wavelan Airport compatible material. There's no support for PCMCIA bridge for the G3 iBook. I'm just unable to use standards PCMCIA softwares. That's is.

But see what i just get :

ath0      IEEE 802.11g  ESSID:"OpenWrt"  Nickname:""
          Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.432 GHz  Access Point: xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
          Bit Rate:54 Mb/s   Tx-Power:18 dBm   Sensitivity=1/1
          Retry:off   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Encryption key:CE36-2568-4095-B3AD-CBDD-96A4-2FD1-16A3
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality=72/70  Signal level=-22 dBm  Noise level=-95 dBm
          Rx invalid nwid:9037  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0

The new card just work better