How to install ma688z/b

Are those easy to get hold of or should I return? The antenna wires are built into the Mac Pros, usually stuffed along the edge of the motherboard. Please read all the previous comments.

I have a card from my G5 that I was hoping to use in my new Mac Pro. Thank you for this handy install guide. Now I tried to find install information on the card, but no luck on the apple site. After some googling I found this and installing it was a snap, works like a charm now.

So thanks again! Glad it was helpful for you! Thanks for all the information. With your good advice the installation was a breeze. Thanks Earl, your a bloody hero!! But hey-ho it works anyway! Although proper fiddly! Fantastic information. I followed the advice given with great success. However, it took me about half an hour to complete the job. Firstly, the antenna wires were quite hard to find — they are indeed tucked along the top of the motherboard and were taped down with black tape, so look for the tape.

A pair of tweezers will help a lot. I had to use a couple of very small screws from an old Sony digital camera. If you are buying a card from Ebay, be sure to check that it comes with the screws. I had a hard time trying to find screws in various electrical goods that were small enough for mounting the card. Good Luck! Thanks for your comments and the information concerning you experiences. Just installed mine. A couple of things that made it easier for me: Put something sticky on small Phillips screwdriver to hold screw in place I used a glue stick , then lower screw into the computer and screw the card on place.

Fish around for the antenna wires gently with tweezers. Remove the black tape. On my Mac Pro, there was only one way to attach the antenna wires; the short one would only reach the top terminal, and the longer one reached the bottom. I used tweezers to orient the antenna wire connector into the right place, then pushed the connector home using the small screwdriver. I just installed mine. Thanks for the help. I bought a new Mac Pro at the Apple store and they just handed me the box and said nothing of being installed by the store or whatever.

When I opened the package at home and read the disclaimer I was quite unnerved. But a quick internet search got me this site and the helpful posts. Took me about 10 minutes and I was up and running.

Bought a card on amazon, was super excited to install with your guide, turns out i didnt get the right card! Could someone please send me a link for the exact card used in the guide? For anybody that has three wires, I just found out from apple that wires 1 and 3 should be used and 2 should be tucked away.

The bluetooth adapter has its own wire BT. Thanks for the tips. Just got a card from apple to install. Your posts have answered for me why there is no antenna, I have checked I have the install screws and now am well armed to install. Thanks for your sharing of info about this. Worked Perfectly. I removed the front fan thx Colin and it made it a lot easier. Mine had three wires and I used 1 and 3 as posted by Jack.

Took me about 10 minutes total. Thanks for the post Earl. Hardest part as described in posts above was getting the antenna wire clips attached to the card. To all who intend to do this, and I reccomend it as a self install, read all of these posts before starting! Thanks for the guide and thanks to all for the helpful comments. It took me a looong time because of those pesky connectors. I found this article and follow up very useful to install my card.

I agree with everything others have contributed. Fitting the card was fairly easy, but attaching the cables was another matter. Still it worked first time. Regards john. Very well written and very appreciated! Thanks everyone for your feedback and comments here—much appreciated. Insert the card into its logic board connector at an angle, as illustrated.

Richard: Have you clicked on each of the photos in this post? If you do they should expand to larger versions so that you can see and read the red text easily. The BT wire is for a Bluetooth card option. It may be the Airport Extreme Enabler from Apple see step 10 in my post. If you still have questions you may want to contact the person you purchased the upgrade card from. Please read them carefully and you should be okay.

Great post! The Airport Card I bought did not come with screws. They slip through the card alright but are a tight fit on the board and will only turn a couple of times. I am afraid to try to force them in for fear of cracking the housing for the screws. Any ideas on what size screw I need and where to get them?

Your instructions are incredibly clear and helpful. The card I used came with two screws, they fit and I used them. I never thought about their size. Thanks for the reply. I actually stole a pair of screws from an old Mac laptop and they worked perfectly.

For anyone else out there who encounters the same problem I suggest doing the same. My hunch is old computers are full of these size screws. Anyway, took some doing as you predicted but I am up and running! Just wanted to say thanks as well. I had to get the screws from a Mac repair shop nearby, but they gave them to me for free so more budgetary success. JRC; luigi; and Steve Congrats on your successful installs. Thanks for leaving comments and information on this post. Best wishes.

The photos were perfect and the instructions were very good, thank you. I even got the screw back out after dropping it inside. Also there were 3 wires numbered 1,2,3. Since the antenna posts were numbered j1,j2 I matched the wires to the posts, leaving 3 unconnected. The airport card is not being found after startup?!!? I will try to take it out and re-insert it in the card slot.

I had it worked after 30 min of trying different cables for one installing the card is easy but then you have to deal with antenna cables. I got the card working only after inserting the wire 1 on the top and wire 3 in the bottom.

Leave cable number 2 covered with the plastic and pushing back above the mother board. I will try what you suggest and report back. Does it automatically mean the card is bad? Or am I missing some installation procedure? Just curious has anyone tested that FastMac card with the original Mac Pro? I should have asked before I ordered the card :. It took an OS reinstall to fix it. Writing this through my home network now.

Working great! I was excited to install the card myself using these instructions but before i bought the card I tried to find the wires. Guess what? I can only find the BT wire. Those other ones must be tucked away to far for me to see. Oh well, back to old-school cables. I removed the single hard drive. I found my wires near the arrow on the right. They looked like they are wrapped together with a bundle of other wires, looking a bit like a car wiring harness.

The Apple store told me the wires numbered 1,2, and 3 are the antenna wires and to try different combinations if my network reception is poor. I read at a different website to use the wires labelled 2 and 3. I just tried connecting Wire 2 and Wire 3, leaving wire 1 unconnected and it works very well.

I use bootcamp and it plays well in Vista as well. Hello everybody, I just succesfully installed the airport card in my Mac Pro thanks to this article. Thank you very much. I just wanted to add this information:. I was a little nervous about installing the card since I hardly have any experience with these kind of procedures.

I had to do it myself because transporting the computer and not having it around for a long time was simply not an option. Installing the card should be done very carefully and with much patience. Using a small set of pliers to put the screws in the holes befor screwing them in worked very well for me.

I however did not succeed in connecting the antenna wires to the card after screwing it to the motherboard. So I unscrewed the card again and gently wiggled the antenna wires to the card with my fingers so that I could feel what I was doing.

Afterwards I installed the card again and it worked fine. I connected wire 2 to the top connector and wire 3 to the bottom one.

WiFi reception is the same as with my MacBook Pro. Pretty pissed of right now. Hi All. Very interesting! I bought mine with the airport card installed some two years ago. I tried various remedies from the net. No luck here. I did. I tries de-installing the card as in the above procedure suggested and cleaned the contacts and reinserted the card. The antennae connections on mine is 1 and 3. Still no luck.

Any suggestions, as our Mac agent is a very long way off? My factory installed airport card in my Mac Pro has the wires 1, 3 connected to the card. Wire 1 is located at the top Close to the Hard Drive bays. I had this same question when installing an airport card into a different Mac Pro so I opened one up which came factory installed to verify the installation.

These things are also a bear to snap onto the airport card. Use good lighting and a magnifier of some kind if possible. Post regarding very tricky job are bang on.. I also found the torch tip essential. Works beautifully!!! Many thanks for the excellent instructions. Like others I was happy to find your post after frustrating experience with Apple salesman who offered an USB plug in, which was clumsy and barely could pickup the signal from my wireless router.

One hint. Zenon, glad you found these instructions and comments helpful and congratulations on the install. Hi, everybody.

Talked to the manager, who explained in a very friendly manner why the only option was to bring the computer into the store, and techs would do a free installation after card purchase. He said that the main concern was customers destroying their computers, which seemed valid. He seemed a little surprised that I might actually know how the installation would go again, all thanks to this site.

I asked about the other alternative, purchasing the AfterTheMac He said around 2 hours, if the store had the card in stock. He then asked which Mac Pro I had, and without the precise details, we were able to guesstimate which would be the proper card for it. I asked if the store had it in stock, could I purchase it, just to make sure I had it, then, if needed, bring the computer in at some later time.

For some reason — maybe he realized I might know what I was doing ha! Came home, re-entered this site and read through every comment, a little concerned that my model number matched none of the others. I have a tiny flat-screwdriver but found that it could turn the Philip screws, but today I tried to find a tiny Philip screwdriver in a hardware store; no luck.

The store, though, did have a small Bent Nose pliers, and the end was smooth, so I bought that. Home, opened up the beast; after HD removals I have 3 installed , I tried to remove the fan cover but decided against it. Also laid the Mac Pro on its side, as Earl had done. That proved to be the best approach for me — dropping either the card or the screwdrivers would have a far less dire result that way.

First thing I did was see if the card fit into its slot. It did. I had the right model. Then took it out and began the process of attaching the antenna wires. The antennae were extremely easy to access — they were already sticking out from behind the circuit board. Tried it with the pliers.

No dice. Trick is to just place them in their holes while the card is still raised. First booted the Tiger. None of this could have happened without the net experiences of everyone here, so drinks are on me when we all get together for the big Airport Extreme Card Installation Reunion next year.

Very helpful, many thanks. My Mac Pro early had 3 antenna, plus bluetooth, which was a bit odd, but I connected numbers 1 and 3 and it seems to work fine. Except…When I started to install I discovered I had no screws. I had gotten a card cheap on eBay. Does anyone know what screws are needed and where I might obtain them? I had the same problem. Ordered the card from ebay, but no screws. Not sure if you have an old laptop or other computer around but these small screws are used a lot for various computer parts.

I used the casing screws from an old laptop to do the trick. Hope that helps. Thanks to the suggestion of JRC I purchased some laptop screws and they did the trick. In my case the original Intel MacPro model the only label on the antenna wires was a 3 with two wires coming out of it.

I did attach the longer to the card before inserting it in the slot as recommended by Don Giller. I tried the same with the shorter and eventually gave up, attaching it after seating the card. I happened to have on hand a good pair of forceps with an angled grip. I held the wire with it and pushed the clip down with a chopstick. My hands are too big. Thanks to everyone for the info and for giving me the confidence to try it.

Hey Gary, do you know the size of laptop screws you purchased? And where did you get them? I have the same issue. Ill be getting it tomorrow. Thanks for the advice. Mounting the cards and screws was ok. The antennae wires were a bit harder. You do have to push quite hard to make them seat otherwise it is quite easy. I also unplugged the power connector for the graphics card to give a wee bit more room.

I used wires 1 and 3, I have an old macpro 2x 2. Just installed on my Mac Pro 1,1. I used wires 1 and 3, and am connected with a full signal to my network router is about 35 feet away, plus several walls.

Attaching those wires was a pain, I found it was easier to attach wire 3 to the bottom of the card before inserting the card. Wire 1 is shorter, so it was easier to find the proper fitment after the card was screwed down. Patience is key. Just installed my card thanks to your tutorial, the wires were really hard task but everything works perfectly. Thanks also to all those who have commented here and shared their experiences. I bought this card from FastMac.

It works but it shows as a bluetooth PAN in the network preferences. I changed the wire from to and it game me the same result.. What shall I do? Try the next ?? These pictures suck. A real photographer knows how to light and use a macro lens. You are phoning it in here. This guide is doing you more damage than good. You know this…Re do the photographs. Be a hero. Please feel free to climb down off your high horse and bitch elsewhere.

Have a good day. Can anyone recommend a piece of harware I can use externally instead? Something that is a wifi transceiver that plugs into the Mac via Ethernet perhaps? The card is plugged in, the screws are secure and the leads are snapped in tight. I see the airport icon after startup but cannot connect to a network. Can I splice the wire together? Is Houdini still alive. Just wondering if I could get any help?

Even the bluetooth, in case it was mis-labelled somehow. I could probably take it in somewhere, but what else are they really going to do??

Any help would be greatly appreciated! My first thoughts is that you have the wrong wireless card. This card is for a 3rd Generation Nehalem 4-core or 8-core Mac Pro. Your Mac Pro is the same generation as mine, with 2-core Xeon processors. First — thank you so much for this page! I actually buy a lot of stuff from sweetwater, and I was about to buy the card that Christina mentioned. I have an 8-core dual quad Intel Xeon.

Do you know which card I need? Perhaps someone else who has contributed via comments will be able to provide more information. Best of luck! Thanks for the prompt reply! I was somehow emboldened by all of this, and I called Apple yet again, and this time I was armed with part numbers. It worked. I just plug my Mac Pro into my Airport Express wireless router say, in the office with an ethernet cable.

Jake, thanks for sharing the information about correct card part numbers. Sorry, but no one has posted a possible response to my question. I tried to change the way the wires are plugged 1 and 3 2 and 3 and 1 and 2 but the same result. The airport card does not show as on but the Bluetooth pan is on and I have the internet.. THe problem that I have discovered is that when I go to front row app and try to check out the video previews it says that I am not connected on the internet.

I can only think that if the card is not being recognized by OS X as an Airport Extreme card there is some incompatibility with the card. The wires would have nothing to do with the card being recognized.

It should be recognized ever without any wires connected, they only serve as antenna wires for stronger and longer range. I have no idea why the card would be reported as a bluetooth PAN. Yes it is very Weird! I just got my card in the mail, but it has no mounting screws…can anybody tell me the size to go and buy? Is there any other hardware I need? Just installed airport card in my Mac Pro purchased June Works great! First pull out CPU board housing so you can get your hands in there to connect the antenna wires.

Flip the two bottom levers and then pull the whole CPU housing straight up. It will go back in painlessly. After connecting the wires then connect the screws. You are my hero! I am not a complete idiot on the computer but I could not have installed this wireless card on my own.

Thank you, thank you…. PC spots… thanks a bunch, earl! Hey all, Been reading this all day trying to get my card installed and working. I inserted the card correctly and its now being recognized but when i go to connect to my network it instantly says connection failed. Its weird though because its recognizing that my network is there just when i go to put the password in it doesnt work. Any suggestions?

Attaching the wires is a total PITA, whoever designed those connectors ought to be shot! Just wanted to add my thanks to the many here. I just installed my card into a Mac Pro 1,1, 2. Fiddly, connecting the cables, but found it best to connect them before inserting the card. That way you can squeeze the connectors shut between thumb and forefinger as others here have described. The two levers allowing you to pull out the bottom tray are not immediately obvious to dunces like me.

This post is great. Just switched my airport card from a MacPro to MacPro. With patience and following the photos it took an hour. Getting the antenna on wire 1 on top and wire 2 on bottom was a pain.

Interestingly the MacPro came without airport card as ordered but also without screws. Thanks for this. Now following these instructions have installed one. Only 3 years later I tried to use the Airport, and was unable to find any network or printer, being the airport present in the system.

Thanks for the lesson, because I found the problem. The original installation was wrong, there was no antenna for the wireless connected and only the bluetooth was installed. Thanks, specially for the photos. Regards, Fernando. Hi, I just got my card in the mail and your instructions are great. ANY ideas? Thanks Barrie. I have done the upgrade to my Mac Pro 8-core , but the wifi is slow. Please help me!

Putting those wires on the pins was the most difficult installation that I have ever don on a Mac. My eyes are not what they used to be. Most of us either did trial and error or just connected some of them in some combination described above and it worked. If you have the energy, swapping out the wires to the card would be an interesting test, though.

Did you install that software? From my research, though, it technically should. Do you or anybody have any input on this? There are three wires marked 1, 2, 3. The Airport card should only have two wires connected to the card, no matter what. Wire 2 never gets attached. Only 1 and 3 and the order is actually not relevant. Apple attaches wire 1 to the connector facing down when installed, Wire 3 connected to the connector facing upwards near the screw.

Connecting the BT wire to the airport will seriously degrade the Wifi signal. If you have bad reception, check for that. Sometimes the markings comes off, but you can detect the wires from where they are coming from the wifi wires come in a bunch while the Bluetooth cable is a standalone cable.

I theoretically have a mbs vs. My wifi download inernet connection is only 1. Maybe I should buy a new, N router. Icram, read this link. She does a really good job at describing the factual differences between N and G.

In fact, depending on what you do with your wireless, even a strong G signal at 54Mbps is WAY faster than what almost any of us get through cable or DSL internet service. In other words, the bottleneck in that scenario is the bandwidth that you buy from your service provider. With your Linksys, you might want to try these things to improve your signal strength: 1 Try setting the speed to Even wireless phones will interfere with your router. Rinse and repeat until you find the best one. Move your router away from your TV or other large electronic devices.

Move your router away from everything, actually as much as you can. Put it up as high as you can, and do your best to create a line-of-site scenario with your computers. This is just one of those deals where you can only do what you can do…. Everything went fine on my Airport installation on my new until I looked for the antenna wires.

I found the Bluethooth wire, but the WiFi antenna wires are nowhere to be found. Eventually found the wires. They are tucked in there. Have 3 wires on mine and only 2 terminals on the card.

Working on an early MP, the AE connector is actually located on the lower part of the motherboard not behind drive bays 1 and 2 , behind the memory modules assembly which had to be pulled out.

Wire 1 is for bluetooth, wires 2 and 3 are for Airport Extreme. Are the three wires in your MP labeled? Tony, can you tell me where the post is for the Blue tooth? I see on the card where wires 2 and 3 go, but not 1. Gail, the bluetooth connector goes on a separate card altogether. If you are not installing a bluetooth card, just leave that wire hanging. If you wish to add bluetooth then you have to purchase a separate module, and this one needs even more screws 4.

This is when your patience will be severely tested. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I had to buy 15 so I have extras. I forget how many are needed. Thank you so much for the offer Gary, that is so generous of you!

Thank you again. If you have any local computer repair places in your area you might also check with them. Anyone else have a suggestion? It would be nice if someone who has the correct screws would bother to post the size and thread count of them. If we knew that info, we could probably find them almost anywhere. Just find a crappy toy or something and remove some small screws from it, thats what I did, worked a treat!!

Hi Mr. Are you still willing to sell a couple of the extra screws for the Airport Extreme card install?

I went to all of my local Mac repair joints, and none of them would give me the screws. I ended up stealing one of the two screws from the Blue Tooth card, so each card ended up being held down by only one screw. Works fine.

I would make one adjustment to the instructions you provide, however: it is easier to attach the little wires to the card before it is inserted into the slot and screwed down. I fidgeted with those tiny things for 15 minutes before unscrewing the board and attaching the wires with the board unattached.

It was way easier. I am also trying to attach a card. I have found wires, 1,2, and 3. Could someone please tell me where the post is for the Bluetooth wire 1? Also, My card came with only one screw. Do I need a screw for each wire or do they just snap on the posts? Thank you! Thanks for the instructions.

They were extremely helpful and everything jumped into place easily. I figured out the following if others would like to know:. Wire 2 and wire 3 are for the airport card, the longer of the two reaching to the outside antennae slot. Anyway, they seem to have a liberal return policy. Good luck with your installation. My installations have ranged from half an hour to two hours following the same procedure.

Sometimes, those wires are simply too difficult to snap into those tiny sockets. Thank you to the person who told me about which wires went where. Now I am waiting for my Bluetooth card, which I thought was in with the airport card. Could someone be so kind as to direct me to the directions on installing a Bluetooth card? I would really appreciate it. Gail, if you were able to install the AE card, the bluetooth module installation should be relatively easy. Remember that the newer MPs might have both modules in a different place on the motherboard unlike the photos.

With an early MacPro, the modules were located towards the bottom so the memory modules assembly had to be pulled out. Thank you Tony, This is my first time of getting help on line. God Bless all of you with the knowledge and patients and time to help people like me. My MP is probably 5 or 6 years old.

The sales person totally missed the mark by not asking me if I wanted a wireless card or bluetooth. I assumed they were automatically installed like the Macbooks. All I want to do is use a wireless keyboard! Thanks again, Gail retired teacher. I was constantly having to reboot it, so I just decided to go with the cards. Thanks so much for helping.

I really appreciate the help, Earl Gail. Any thoughts on whether this should work? All I know is I put in the wireless card with little effort and it worked. Perhaps someone else can. I just connected wires 2 and 3 to the card before I mounted the card. The small connectors connect flat. I was trying to install them straight up but they go on flat. The most difficult part was finding mounting screws. The Apple store was unwilling to help bring it in and we will charge you to install..

My daughter went to Bust Buy and the boys at the Geek Squad gave her an assortment of screws one of which worked. Further advice : if your Mac Pro has 3 wires, use wires 1 and 3 in any combination, leave 2 alone. Thank you for the great instructions. The pictures were very helpful.

It took me about half an hour but I do this sort of thing for a living. I would like to thank you for this post. I would not be able to instal this card without your help. But the big difference is the 3 wires. In mine, the 3 wires are the same length, and only labeled 1, 2, and 3. I literally tried every combination, top and bottom, and my result is clearly that 1 and 2 are the right ones, and it seems in either order.

I tried 2,3 3,2 1,3 and 3,1 also, and the results were awful. Low signal and transmit rates of Now with 2,1 connected, transmit rate is 54 same as my MBP sitting right next to me. I had the same problem and then I got desperate.

I used the Apple Help App and it walked me through the setup for an airport connection and the card was recognized and all works just fine, try the help function, it just might work. Also, what is the verdict on which of the 3 wires are the best to use?

A friend wanted this doing to his Power Mac 1. Bought the card quite cheaply on ebay and proceeded to install it. Fitting the card proved no problem at all — just open the case, remove the drives from bay one and two, slip the card in the slot as described in this post and use one of the bluetooth module screws to fasten it down.

Nowhere to be seen — I even removed the CD drive chassis to see if they were tucked behind there — nope. Read in this post about the wires sometime being behind the RAM modules.

Ripped them out to have a look — nope. Even took the front fan casing out just on the off chance they were sneakily hiding behind there. Basically, apart from removing the mother board to have a peek behind it, I have looked everywhere inside the case for these three wires.

On Mac Pro 1,1 to 3,1 models, the 3 wires are bundled underneath the logic board and taped using a black fabric tape between the sata connectors of drive 1 and 2. Just look for the black fabric tape and pull it carefully off the metal. Then carefully pull the 3 attached wires out. Never use wire 2 on these models. The order is not as important, but I recommend 1 on the bottom and 3 to the top. Using wire 2 connects to a less efficient antenna there are 3 antennas in the bottom of the case underneath the gray label.

After installing the card, make sure to push the extra wire length back underneath the logic board and affix the tape in the same place, otherwise the wires can get in-between the the sata drive and connector and you could cut the cables when pushing the drive sled back in drive 2. Hope this helps. Thanks for these directions. Due to very tight space. Kinda have to be careful and feed the card behind the Bluetooth line.

This time it was on my own MacPro3,1. I opted for the more expensive I temporarily disabled ethernet and somehow the So when I move to my new location with business class cable and an Airport Extreme Tips: This Mac Pro had factory-installed bluetooth so when I fished out the antenna wires partially hidden behind the motherboard I was surprised to find wires 1, 2, and 3. All along I thought wire 1 was for bluetooth.

Anyway, I used 2 and 3, and this time I found it easier to attach the leads first before screwing down the card onto the motherboard. In previous installations, I found the reverse to work better for me. Make sure you have a strongly magnetized double-aught Phillips head screwdriver. Better yet, if your hands are not rock-steady, apply a minuscule drop of Superglue between the head of the screw and driver tip.

Once the screws are seated tight, they will release easily from the driver. Another oddity. I set up a current model mid iMac and its wireless connection was very slow until I turned off IPv6 which then normalized the connection speed.

However, on this MacPro with this card, it does not seem to make a difference whether or not IPv6 is enabled. Total installation time: less than 30 minutes. My longest time in a previous installation was almost two hours, most of it just trying to connect the leads to the card.

Good luck to you! Great guide. Picked up a cheap card and installed it in my Mac Pro tower following the instructions. Be warned however, you may not need the airport enabler. I purchased it but on install it said I had the wrong hardware. Marcus, glad it all worked out for you. Good advice about the enabler. At the time this article was written the enabler was required but Apple may have built the function into later releases of OS X.

Thanks for the feedback on your results! Does anyone have any insight into a Mac Pro Airport Extreme card upgrade that might work with this older model and AirDrop in One caveat—xlr8yourmac reports this working in a MP, so if you have an older or newer model, your mileage might vary. I already installed another card in my MP but it does not work with AirDrop.

If this one works, then I intend to get another one for my even older MP. One of the reasons that I went to Lion was for AirDrop. I look forward to hearing if your fix does the trick.

There must be a way. I have Mac Pro early and they say not have any upgrade to work with airdrop. Only buy a new machine. But i see one program free do the same that airdrop but not remember the name now.

So i go to forget airdrop now :. As I wrote previously, the report on this card was for a Mac Pro. So I just went and bought one on eBay. Ill try to post back once I install it. I see the tech specs of the card, i think this card work with airdrob because is dual band, and airdrop for work need 5 GHz dual band Card, try and then tell us.

Good Luck. Hi everyone! I succeded!!! Where do you think i could get those king of screws? Regards Fab. Have anyone tried and get the airdrop to work on older mac yet? Please share details about your card! I know so far, all the macbookA have the same airport card, but air drop would work on some macbook, so can I say it is not all about the card? AirDrop works! Needless to say, the installation was not any easier than before but at least I was better prepared for it mentally.

It took about an hour total. I have the early MacPro3,1 which did not come with an Airport card. The …MC does. Here is the AirDrop window,. Now at least we know that AirDrop can be enabled in the MacPro3,1 early It is not a guarantee that it will work with the older models, but this is encouraging after all the comments that AirDrop requires specific hardware other than the Airport card in order to be supported.

This is good to know because I have one of those and will be my next project. I used only one of the screws and will use the other one to size it in order to find out where to get more. This community can sure use a bunch of those screws, no? I used the Aug 4 list of AirDrop supported cards … and started searching. Tony: please clarify. I did not say that. It was a quote I copied from another reader feedback on xlr8yourmac.

Then after installing the new Atheros wi-fi card, it sounds like AirDrop now works. You had better read the article yourself, since what I pasted here was just part of their feedback. Thanks Tony my mac pro is 1. They want make us stupis to buy e new machine…. Just so you know, in consolation, Apple never made the Airport Extreme card for the Mac Pro available as a retail product.

You either had to get it as a BTO option when you purchased your Mac Pro, or you could take it back to an Apple Store or Authorized Service Provider and have one installed as an after-market add-on. But now that Apple has been using Broadcom products widely for their newer Macs, I would put more faith in that brand rather than Atheros. I found a web site selling those screws but the price is…almost the same price i paid the card!!!! Boot from media to launch Setup. This path is a clean install and will not retain previous files or settings.

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