Ran across a reference at <http://www.accelerateyourmac.com/archives/sep04/091704.html#S18083>

to using a Sony Vaio wireless card as a substitute for an Airport card.

Don't know how available those Vaio cards are, though...

Bruce,

That story is nothing new. In fact, it's been known for a very long time that any WaveLAN based card will work in the internal slot. Indeed, people have used this trick to supposedly upgrade Silver cards to Gold cards (AirPort 2 upgrades the firmware of the card to do 128-bit WEP).

The trouble is finding a card that will fit when the keyboard is installed. The VAIO card will fit if the antenna is removed.

These VAIO cards are extremely rare (though I've got one! :-P) and equally expensive (more than the AirPort card). It makes no economical sense to use one of these instead of an AirPort card.

See <http://www.applefritter.com/cgi-bin/YaBB/YaBB.pl?board=hacks;action=display;num=1076035912> for more interesting reading about the Sony card and AirPort compatibility.

FYI, there are two cards that can be made to work: The PCWA-C150 and the PCWA-C150S. As far as I can tell, the only difference between them is that one's antenna says "VAIO" and the other's says "SONY".

Peace,
Drew
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