Unfortunately that too is not entirely true. The internal wireless card in an original graphite series Airport Base Station is in fact a Lucent Technologies WaveLAN Silver card which is fully compatible with a Newton. How do I know this, well because after working for Apple for a couple of years and taking these things apart I seem to remember such details. I can also tell you I used to remove these cards from burnt out base station I bought on ebay, infact I am hold one right here. I believe the second generation Snow (Dual Ethernet) Bases Stations may in fact use the Apple Airport cards inside them, that would be incompatible with the Newton. Airport Extreme bases stations use a completely proprietary Airport Extreme card and are of course also incompatible with the Newton.
Thomas Brand (T2)
On Monday, August 27, 2007, at 11:52AM, "John Broughton" <jdbroughton@yahoo.com> wrote:
>So as to lay this issue to rest, the Airport card
>found in an older Airport Base Station is the same
>card that came internally in some PowerBooks, iMacs,
>and PowerMacs. It is a 32 bit cardbus compliant 3.3v
>card and as such will not work in a Newton or eMate
>even if you could find an antenna connection that
>would fit. The Newton requires a 5v 16 bit card such
>as the original Orinoco or Lucent Wavelan series card.
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