----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert Benjamin Johnston" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "G-Books" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, June 22, 2003 6:58 AM Subject: Wallstreet OX 10.2.6 Wireless Won't Connect to Internet
> To the list: > > I have sure you have had this question before so please forgive me. > > I am trying to resurrect an old Wallstreet and itıs almost ³alive.² I am > running OS X 10.2.6 on a Wallstreet with a Newer 466 processor upgrade with > 512 of RAM with a Lucent Orinoco Gold Card. My ISP provider is Comcast. I > am using a Linksys Router which connects to the cable modem. I have an > regular Airport base station connected to the router for my wireless net. > My wifeıs G4 is connected directly through the router and accesses the > internet just fine. My main laptop is a Pismo with an running OS X 10.2.6 > which connects to the internet just fine. Or at least did until I had a > head crash on the hard drive, but thatıs another story. I have tried > several drivers for the Wallstreet without success. I can connect to the > internet with the above setup without any difficulty in OS 9.2.2 with > Airport with a great signal using either iCab or Explorer. I installed > IOExpertıs wireless driver and much to my delight it worked. Much to my > despair it only worked for a couple of minutes. I had previously > uninstalled drivers from SourceForge and MacWireless. The SourceForge driver > had a simmilar problem to the one listed below. The MacWireless Driver > wouldn't work at all. I uninstalled both the SourceForge and MacWireless > drivers.I checked for their files and theyıre all gone. Here is some > information that you may find relevant. The IOExperts drivers have > installed without a difficulty. When I go to System Preferences and check > the information for the driver, the card recognizes the network, with a > great signal strength. I cannot connect to the internet via the WiFi card > but can connect using the built in ethernet port without problems. I have > checked the network preferences and the Wallstreet is getting a dynamic IP > address wirelessly. I have removed the router and tried to connect > wirelessly directly to the base station which again works fine in OS 9 but > not in OS X. I have reset the cable modem without success. I have repaired > the permissions on the disk using Appleıs disk utility repeatedly until > their is nothing to repair and again I cannot get it to connect to the > internet in Jaguar. In both Camino and Explorer the computer cannot find > the site. I have used the Network utility to ping. Again, it works great > from my wifeıs computer with is hard wired to the router by an ethernet > cable but absolutely will not ping anything wirelessly from the wallstreet. > I cannot ping anything on the internet nor can I ping my wifeıs computer > wirelessly. If there is some easy fix for all of this please let me know. > Itıs particularly frustrating since Iım getting a strong signal and it > managed to connect wirelessly for about ten minutes. Any help would be > greatly appreciated. > > Ben > How do you have your Airport Base Station configured? Considering your description above; it should only be set up as a bridge to your ethernet network, make sure it is not trying to assign IP addresses. Joe Ellis -- G-Books is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-Books list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
