Hi Andrew.
You can use a wireless card with a PowerBook 1400 and also have it set up for wired Ethernet. It just takes a little different configuration to make them coexist with each other.
Do I understand correctly that I can only do this with 2 system folders?
That might be a little much for my Dad (the eventual user of this 1400).
I haven't installed either network card (Farallon internal Ethernet or YDL/Orinoco PC card wireless) so all mistakes are open to me.
If you have already installed software for a Internal or PCMCIA Ethernet card, you will have to do a Clean Install of the OS to get the wireless card to work. On PowerBooks that support Card & Socket Services 2 (the 190,1400, 5300 and perhaps the 500 series) they will only support one alternate network at a time. The wireless software installer writes data to the System File (modifies the System File). If you do a Update of the OS, this data is preserved (or supose to be). This is why you have to do a Clean Install when you have wired Ethernet already on the PowerBook.
This sounds like either ethernet adapter (Farallon internal Ethernet or YDL/Orinoco PC card wireless) will modify the system folder in such a way as to prevent the other adapter from working.
Does anyone know what gets changed in the system folder?
If it's as simple as extensions and control panels then extension manager should be able to handle it. I must be missing something.
Maybe I'll have to poke around Location manager to see if it can change the extension set and TCP/IP files to work with either.
Once the Orinoco v7.2 software is installed, you should see the selection of Orinoco instead of Alternate Ethernet in your AppleTalk Control Panel. After completing the installation, shut down your PowerBook, insert the wireless card, and restart your PowerBook. If all goes well, the driver will load, the icon of the card will be green/white and the Control Strip will show you have a card installed.
In my case, with my PB 1400, I have set up a compact flash card with a clean install of the OS and the Wireless software. I use alias to link to files on the hard disk. I also get longer battery life when using the flash card, and have Eudora and iCab on the flash card.
Instead of using a Compact Flash card to be a start up disk, you could partition the hard disk to allow two System Folders, and use the Start Up Disk Control Panel to choose between the two. Install wireless software on one, and the wired software on the other.
This might be an option since the 1400 in question has a 20 Gb hard drive. However I'd have to figure out how to partition the drive.
I'm guessing FDISK won't work....
Installing the Orinoco v7.2 wireless software can be tricky. This past saturday, I installed the drivers on a flash card and the installer locked up. I found that if I started up from a disk other than the flash card (the one I wanted to install to), the installer ran fine. This was in OS 8.6.
Also, I have noticed that sometime the Orinoco control strip shows a X through it even though the card is installed and working. This happened on some when the PC Card is inserted after startup. It does not happen when the card is inserted before startup.
About Ethernet cards, I use the Farallon PCMCIA Ethernet card, and I know the installation of it's drivers will prevent the wireless software from Asante, Skyline, and Orinoco from installing and working. I do not have a internal Ethernet card, but it's drivers may stop the wireless drivers from installing. If its is a Apple internal ethernet card then try removing the card before you do a Clean Install. Try this only after you have done all else, and see if it will let you install the wireless drivers with the card removed.
One other note, the wireless card does not have to be in the PowerBook to run the installer.
Ken Vann
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