Hi Dean,
Do you have an Apple Store near you? I also had my PowerBook G4 lose
it's wireless reception after I'd used it for about 4 years. It turns
out that the AirPort wireless card was loose and not fully connecting
because it was no longer firmly seated all the way into the slot.
(Since laptops get carried around a lot, these cards can get jostled
over time). I took it into the genius bar at my local Apple Store,
and they just reseated the card in the slot and everything worked
again. Took about 5 minutes, no charges, and they cleaned my screen
and keyboard just as a service. You could probably check this
yourself if you had to, but there's a small metal flap that locks down
into position, and there are also some wires connected to the AirPort
card and a ribbon cable that I didn't want to damage in trying to push
things back to reseat the card into the slot. So I had the Apple
Store folks look this over. It's very fast for them to do the fix if
the card has come loose. But you have to push back the ribbon cable
attached to the card, and make sure that none of the wires has snagged
when you push down the metal flap and close things up, so I'd
recommend that you have one of the Apple Store people do this check if
it's easy for you to get to a store.
I also found out during this visit that you can schedule appointments
for the Genius Bar at your local Apple retail store through an online
web form. The process is entirely accessible. Here's a link to an
old post that described how to do this:
http://www.mail-archive.com/discuss%40macvisionaries.com/msg19144.html
(Accessibile Web Reservations with your local Apple Store)
I think this pretty much still works as outlined.
Good luck, and let us know how this turns out. My guess is that your
wireless card is simply not flush in the slot any more, which is why
no device shows up now. At least, that's what happened in my case.
Cheers,
Esther
On Mar 2, 2010, at 17:53, Dean Adams wrote:
Hey All,
My Powerbook G4 has a problem with the wireless receiver it
seems to have died or have I pressed a key combo that turns it of if
I go into the Airport Configuration tool it says there is no
wireless devices it has either died or I have turned it of somehow.
So is there a way to turn it back on or has it just died .
Regards Dean
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