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Installation of an Airport/Bluetooth module in a Quad

by Greg . Original by Lionel - 31/01/2006 12:15:28 CET
While the most basic iBook comes with Airport and Bluetooth, Apple has decided they'd rather keep it out of the Powemacs, and that was already quite of an upsetting surprise. Worse was to come: you're supposed to take your machine to a licensed Apple reseller if you want to have them installed.
Olivier, who couldn't let his Powermac away for any time, managed to get the parts and assembled them in his computer :
This job was a piece of cake.
There are four elements in the box: the card, a daughter-board, two Phillips screws and two plastic clips which will hold the daughter board.
After you've plugged the antennas on the main board, you insert the card into the daughter board and and screw it with the Phillips screws. Then all you have to do is insert that module on the appropriate connector on the motherboard and clip the clips.


Now you can restart the computer and that's it!
As you can see, the card's settings correspond to an US localization and I don't know if they can be changed.
And indeed these US settings are permanent, which mean that channels 12 and 13 are not accessible.
If you had Apple do the same job, this would cost you 179 euros, and on top of that you'd have to take you Powermac to a licensed reseller. Now you can
find this card on the net and it will cost you less than 99 dollars, not including VAT and shipping.
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