airport mod

I bought a clamshell after much thought, I and other people online thought a clamshell would be sufficant for my basic mac needs...  I picked up a blueberry for 75 bucks; dead battery, 96mb, 3gb... when it arrived I was suprised that it had airport, it was a mistake by the seller...  I ordered a lucent wavelan on the same day, I've put them in clamshells before, and I was wondering will the internal antenna work when I have the ibooks antenna plugged into it, it's pretty easy and a little more range cant hurt .  thanks for ur help

I think the ibook antenna will have a different connector.  You may have to strip it and put on a new connector.

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http://www.sharperconcepts.net/

also, what about drivers for that?

I have a lucent Orinoco card in my clamshell and the antenna fit, and it just worked. Uses the apple drivers in both os9 and osx. All I had to do as remove the modem and some of the heat-sink so the antenna would fit.

Yeah, the old orinoco cards were broadcom and are recognised as airport or airport extreme cards. Not sure thats true of the newer ones. I know for a fact that Belkin cards change chipset without even changing model number.

the lucent wavelan cards are the same thing as airports....  they just have internal antennas, they do have the same jack... I've done it before, I just don't know it it will improve my wi-fi range

Does this mean that a airport card can work on a PC based laptop?

Providing you have a 3rd-party driver able to run on that particular chipset, then yes. 

I wonder if the drivers included with Bootcamp would work?

They might well do.

The drivers in Boot Camp are for the newer AirPort Extreme cards that are in all the Intel macs. The new cards are completely different than the old cards.