Airport Setup Assistant Download For Mac
Just not to be all doom and gloom:-) my old Powerbook G3 that came with OS8.6 also had an Airport card (now in my older PBG4). Alas I never used it, wireless was a pipe-dream in the windows world and I didn't have a wireless router. If anything, the Airport software will be in the OS8.6 optional installs or in Apple Extras in Applications (in fact it is there). Don't forget to download any patches for it. I also think that the OS9 Airport card software may work with it in OS8.6.
I've given my PBG3 away last year so I can't test this for you. Usually, there is not that much difference between OS 9.x and 8.6 for lots of things, although not universally. As long as you are not mixing with OS X, I would just try running the OS 9 version of Airport Setup Assistant or Airport Administration Utility (there are two complementary, compatible Airport programs, the 'easy' and the 'advanced' versions.) If it installs, then it probably will work. If it doesn't install, so be it; if it installs but doesn't work, just uninstall it. I have an Airport 2.02 install CD which only mentions OS 9, but in my 8.6 machine it will start the install process. From a recent Airport experience, not all good, on a friend's Macs with various versions of OS X and OS 9, I can say that setting up Airport in OS 9.x was no problem at all.
Further thought: Given when Airport came on the market, OS 9.x was probably the current operating system, and Apple may not have tested Airport for use on OS 8.6, hence a 9.x OS requirement (whether truly needed or not). Thus, there may not even be any OS 8.6 version of Airport software; I haven't checked. However, unless Airport needs a specific system code which is not is 8.6 but in 9.x, then some to all of Airport might function on 8.6.
I just read in another thread that there is a TCP/IP difference between 8.6 and 9.x, needed in networking, so that might be a stumbling block as Airport involves TCP/IP. Bottom line, unless someone posts with specific information based on experience about this, or you can google something, you may just have to do a trial and error test! Airport is a learning experience and not a little 'Airport voodoo' can be involved!! Just not to be all doom and gloom:-) my old Powerbook G3 that came with OS8.6 also had an Airport card (now in my older PBG4). Alas I never used it, wireless was a pipe-dream in the windows world and I didn't have a wireless router. If anything, the Airport software will be in the OS8.6 optional installs or in Apple Extras in Applications (in fact it is there).
Don't forget to download any patches for it. I also think that the OS9 Airport card software may work with it in OS8.6.
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