[WelMac] Introduction + question

[Gordon Paynter]

Hi all:

I have a quesion about my iBook that Jo suggested I run by you all. It is a
white G3 iBook (600Mhz, dual USB, October 2001), much beloved, that we use
as our stereo (with an Airport Express base station of similar vintage) and
for day-to-day web browsing from the couch. Until recently, this has worked
a treat, and there probably aren't many 6-year-old machines that do as much
work as this one does daily.

However, we've just encountred a problem. The wireless internet connection
(provided by an Airport Card) is intermitantly failing. Everything appears
to be okay, but no signal is wireless detected. This will go on for days at
a time, until one day we will wake the iBook up and the wireless will be
back. It will work until we shut the lid again, and then it will usually not
come back again next rme we use it. This has been progressively getting
worse, and now the wireless is only working about once per week.

We're currently working around this by using wires when we want to play
music, but that kind of defeats the purpose.

So my quesiton is: how do I figure out what is wrong without buying a new
airport card? My guess is that it is the airport card that is broken, but
maybe something is wrong with the computer itself, which means replacing the
card wont fix it. Apple doesn't make those cards anymore, so I will have to
buy a second-hand one on trademe to test with--but then I still wont be sure
the new card isn't broken.

Any suggestions? (Or does anyone have an airport express card I can borrow
for a few minutes?)

TIA,
Gordon
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