Wow, that's got to be a frustrating one. Do you know for a fact that your replacement Airport card is a known-good one? I ask because many eBay sellers sell parts without testing them, even though they may state "tested". Unfortunately many sellers just figure it's worth saving the time to thoroughly test everything, and put up with a return every once in a while. Probably one in three spare parts I've bought on eBay has been bad.
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Wow, that's got to be a frustrating one. Do you know for a fact that your replacement Airport card is a known-good one? I ask because many eBay sellers sell parts without testing them, even though they may state "tested". Unfortunately many sellers just figure it's worth saving the time required to thoroughly test everything, and put up with a return every once in a while. Probably one in three spare parts I've bought on eBay has been bad.
I don't think it's the Airport cables, because if they were bad it shouldn't cause the Airport to not show installed at all. And you've wiped the OS, so you know it's not that. It all points to the Airport card itself, or possibly the other card underneath (I don't personally have experience with that one).
Wow, that's got to be a frustrating one. Do you know for a fact that your replacement Airport card is a known-good one? I ask because many eBay sellers sell parts without testing them, even though they may state "tested". Unfortunately many sellers just figure it's worth saving the time to thoroughly test everything, and put up with a return every once in a while. Probably one in three spare parts I've bought on eBay has been bad.
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I don't think it's the Airport cables, because if they were bad it shouldn't cause the Airport to not show installed at all. And you've wiped the OS, so you know it's not that. It all points to the Airport card itself, or possibly the other card underneath (I don't personally have experience with that one).
Wow, that's got to be a frustrating one. Do you know for a fact that your replacement Airport card is a known-good one? I ask because many eBay sellers sell parts without testing them, even though they may state "tested". Unfortunately many sellers just figure it's worth saving the time to thoroughly test everything, and put up with a return every once in a while. Probably one in three spare parts I've bought on eBay has been bad.