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lucface

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Mar 4, 2005
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i want to get blue tooth going on a g4 powerbook titanium. it didnt come with blue tooth.
 

lucface

macrumors regular
Original poster
Mar 4, 2005
191
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if i have a printer that isnt blue tooth. can i plug that same thing into it as well?(two different dlink things)
and have the computer and printer talk over bluetooth?
 

Frisco

macrumors 68020
Sep 24, 2002
2,475
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Utopia
lucface said:
if i have a printer that isnt blue tooth. can i plug that same thing into it as well?(two different dlink things)
and have the computer and printer talk over bluetooth?

http://www.mpitech.com/bpa/
Check Supported Printers to see if yours is listed.

Your option for wireless printing is through an Airport Base Station. Do you have an airport card installed?
 

RGunner

macrumors 6502a
Jul 3, 2002
707
105
Midnight Sun
There is also...

a Bluetooth PCMCIA card for a seamless installation in the Ti's.

this is what I use on a Wallstreet in Panther
 

jalagl

macrumors 6502a
Jun 5, 2003
802
1
Costa Rica
I bought a cheap no-name USB Bluetooth adapter and it works great.
This was luck, though, as there was a chance that it wouldn't work.
 

RGunner

macrumors 6502a
Jul 3, 2002
707
105
Midnight Sun
PCMCIA Bluetooth

The card (and the only one I know of) is a 3Com Bluetooth card (v3 I believe). Can fetch the model number tonight if anyone is interested. There is an enabler you must run, call CardSuite I think, it then looks like a stock DBT-120 or Apple BT to the PowerBook. Worked in 10.3 and not sure about Tiger (have yet to install Tiger on Wallstreet).

Antenna is modular, can be inserted for no protrusion or ejected and raised for more coverage (not needed of course with Keyboard / Mice, etc).

Hope this helps.
 
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