Hello I just bought a second hand mac pro 2008 3.1 with eight core xeon processors.
One of the problems is that I turned it on and managed to connect my bluetooth keyboard and mouse but cannot get any wifi which suggests the is no airport card installed (no wifi logo in top right hand corner of desktop screen either).
I do have a 2006 iMac which this is replacing as it's knackered and slow as hell. It does have wifi built in and was wondering if I should salvage it for parts (namely the wifi card). Is this possible or is the wifi card likely to be fused to the Motherboard etc
Any advice would be greatly appreciated as I'm a peasant and don't want to fork out for something I might already have installed in another computer.
(Very surprised it doesn't have wifi considering its newer than my 2006 imac which came with it preinstalled)
UPDATE
went into my more info about this mac and under wifi it has
COREWLAN: 4.3.2 (432.47)
COREWLANKit: 3.3.2 (332.36)
Menu extra: 9.3.2 (932.35)
System Information: 9.0 (900.8)
IO80211 Family: 6.3 (630.35)
Diagnostics: 3.0 (300.40)
Airport Utility : 6.3.2 (632.3)
No mention of a named wifi card or anything but not sure if it would anyway...
One of the problems is that I turned it on and managed to connect my bluetooth keyboard and mouse but cannot get any wifi which suggests the is no airport card installed (no wifi logo in top right hand corner of desktop screen either).
I do have a 2006 iMac which this is replacing as it's knackered and slow as hell. It does have wifi built in and was wondering if I should salvage it for parts (namely the wifi card). Is this possible or is the wifi card likely to be fused to the Motherboard etc
Any advice would be greatly appreciated as I'm a peasant and don't want to fork out for something I might already have installed in another computer.
(Very surprised it doesn't have wifi considering its newer than my 2006 imac which came with it preinstalled)
UPDATE
went into my more info about this mac and under wifi it has
COREWLAN: 4.3.2 (432.47)
COREWLANKit: 3.3.2 (332.36)
Menu extra: 9.3.2 (932.35)
System Information: 9.0 (900.8)
IO80211 Family: 6.3 (630.35)
Diagnostics: 3.0 (300.40)
Airport Utility : 6.3.2 (632.3)
No mention of a named wifi card or anything but not sure if it would anyway...