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Hi everyone,
I recently purchased a 7 year old Powerbook G3 "Kanga" from someone on Ebay. I needed a laptop and was tired of dealing with all of the problems with Windows-based systems. I decided that this would be a great way to learn the Mac and save some $$$ at the same time. The computer came with a USB 2.0 CardBus PC Card (one of the reasons I went with this unit), it's in great physical shape and seems to work flawlessly, except for this one problem: I can't get it to recognize any of my USB devices. Not even one. I've installed the drivers that came with the devices, and still nothing. When I insert the USB card, a USB icon pops up onto the screen but when I plug anything into it nothing happens. I've checked the pins that the card plugs into, they're all fine. I can't find any software on the computer that has anything to do with the USB card itself, could this be the problem? I've already described everything that I know about the card, not even the name of the manufacturer is printed on it. Can anyone help me with this problem? Without USB, about the only thing this computer is good for is playing Civilization.
I recently purchased a 7 year old Powerbook G3 "Kanga" from someone on Ebay. I needed a laptop and was tired of dealing with all of the problems with Windows-based systems. I decided that this would be a great way to learn the Mac and save some $$$ at the same time. The computer came with a USB 2.0 CardBus PC Card (one of the reasons I went with this unit), it's in great physical shape and seems to work flawlessly, except for this one problem: I can't get it to recognize any of my USB devices. Not even one. I've installed the drivers that came with the devices, and still nothing. When I insert the USB card, a USB icon pops up onto the screen but when I plug anything into it nothing happens. I've checked the pins that the card plugs into, they're all fine. I can't find any software on the computer that has anything to do with the USB card itself, could this be the problem? I've already described everything that I know about the card, not even the name of the manufacturer is printed on it. Can anyone help me with this problem? Without USB, about the only thing this computer is good for is playing Civilization.
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