It's expensive, but it's a sure thing, after all, and they give a 60-day warranty, which is worth something. If I can't find a for-sure correct 661-3692 Airport card on Ebay, I'll go back to MacPalace and pay them what they ask. A lot of these Airport cards look alike but have different part numbers. Kind of a steep price when there are a lot of Airport cards on Ebay for prices like $10 with free shipping, but before I bought one of those I'd have to make sure the part number was right. Thanks for the link to MacPalace, Harry-they have that Airport Extreme Bluetooth Combo Card card (part number 661-3692) in stock, for $23, but then they want $15 more just to mail it to you. So, since there were no PCIe wifi cards made for this model of Mac, as far as I can tell, it's back to the Airport card solution. It doesn't work for this G5 but it was worth a try. So much for the Ethernet method, I guess. Whenever I launched FireFox there, I got a window that said 'Firefox can't find the server.' Yes, Leopard has the Internet Sharing pane, but after linking the two Macs with an Ethernet cable and getting them to see each other, I ticked the Internet Sharing box (on both machines) but there was still no Internet connection on the G5. The G5 seems to have a hex on it when it comes to getting on the Internet.īut, at least I've found a way for the two Macs to see each other and share files. Nothing that I've tried in the Network Preferences window changes anything. The Mac Pro still gets on the Internet, though (I'm using Firefox on both Macs) but when I activate Firefox on the G5 all I get is a window that says 'Cannot locate server.' They're sharing files but they're not sharing the Internet connection. Maybe there's a video tutorial somewhere on how to do it-I'll look.Īs to Ethernet, I found a long Ethernet cable and connected the two Macs together, and managed to get them to see each other's files, but the G5 still has no wifi-I can't make any connection to the Internet on the G5. Thanks, Harry! I'll go looking on Ebay (or elsewhere) for one of those cards, but I'm not looking forward to mucking around in the interior of the G5 trying to install it, after your warning about how difficult it is.

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