At 8:48 AM -0800 1/1/06, Barry Muller wrote:
Hello,
I have an eMac running 10.2.8 w\ airport extreme card
and a Pismo running 10.4.3 with an airport card; these
(used to) connect to an Airport Extreme base that is
connected to a DSL modem (SBC). When I first got this
"system" I managed to muddle through and get
everything working OK.
About a month ago I tried to synch my Wallstreet to
the Pismo using the IRDA port. That didn't work for
me, but afterward nothing would connect to the
BaseStation. I managed to get the Pismo back, but the
eMac only gives the error that it cannot find the
PPPOE host. It does see the base station though.
I've tried to set the to machines to the same settings
in system prefs/network, but the windows in Jaguar are
slightly different than in Tiger, so I it seems (to
me) that I cannot get the settings exactly the same
(eventhough I admit that is counter intuitive).
Any help is very much appreciated. Please do not
hesitate to break out the finger puppets to explain
this to me as networks are a known weak-point in my
knowledge of computers.
Thanks in advance,
Barry
Nobody else seems to be biting on this problem and I feel your pain.
A detailed explanation about what to do could be very time-consuming;
more than I can offer at this time.
If it is still broken, unfortunately, it may be time to "read the
fantastic manual".
Unless somebody else has the time to go through detailed step-by-step
instructions, Apple has very good documentation and tools to help you
through this procedure. If you have a machine under AppleCare, you
can call on this issue for free. If you are out of AppleCare, they
will still help you on the phone for about $50, which is much less
than you'd pay to have a tech come over and fix it.
If I were you, I'd find the setup instructions that came with the ABS
(Airport Base Station), or download them from the mothership.
http://www.apple.com/support/airport/
the pdf documentation on the right side of that page is probably what
you are after.
Probably the simplest, and maybe surest way to get your network
working is to start from scratch. It may not be a quick fix, but what
you will learn will be of value. =In truth, it might be the quickest
fix as well.
You may even want to reset the base station to defaults. The
procedure for this is outlined in the documentation referenced above.
I recommend that you make a new location on both machines.
(Apple Menu>System Preferences>Network>Location>Make a New Location)
The first step is to get one of the computers working via wire. I
mean with the DSL modem connected directly to the computer by the
Ethernet cable. So you will make an Ethernet port connect via PPPOE.
After that, I would use the Airport Setup Assistant to pass those
successful settings to the ABS.
Then you connect both machines to the ABS via wireless.
I might also recommend that you get both machines on the same OS,
just for ease of setup and familiarity of the interface. This is
optional.
A few things to help you conceptually -
A PPOE connection requires a password and login.
These should be "remembered" by the base station.
The Setup Assistant will transfer settings from a computer to the ABS.
The Airport Admin Utility is a bigger administrative tool, and you
may not need it at all.
After the base station is set up and working, all the computers
connect to the network by the Airport port (network tabs) and they
get TCP/IP via DHCP.
Neither of the machines is sharing its Internet connection in this setup.
good luck!
Larry
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