Well, folks, it appears the holy grail has been found! I sat in the bathroom with my still-broken upgraded MP2000 while my kids took their bath tonight, and the water was cold when I finally picked my jaw up off the floor. I spent a half-hour, WIRELESSLY retrieving e-mail, surfing the web, and doing a very lengthy backup of my Newt with NCU.
Basic details: the Alpha2 driver found at http://www.ff.iij4u.or.jp/~ngc/eng/newtwave.htm works with my Orinoco Silver, an iBook running 10.1.3, NCU running under Classic 9.2.2, and an original Airport base station. I can provide further details, but I suspect we will see a run on the wireless cards on e-bay now! I set up the connection as a DHCP connection, obtaining an IP number from the Airport, and voila! On the internet! Very, very fast, too. It appears about the same speed as 10BaseT ethernet, but I have no utilities to determine this. My previous posts reported being able to connect peer-to-peer to my iBook, but this time, it's direct to the Airport, iBook not necessary. The only thing I could find wrong, if you can call it wrong, is every time I connected anew, it assigned me a new IP address, one number greater than the last time. It may have more to do with the release of a DHCP lease on the Airport than anything to do with the Newton, though. Who cares, though. It's very strange walking around the house with my Newton, being able to check e-mail, do a Google search, and flip channels on my TV! It has made my decision to stick with my Newt all the more sure. I will be using Palm Desktop under Classic until there is a way to synch the Carbonized version to the Newt (if ever), but I like the Classic version better, as the Carbon version is very slow to type in. I'll field questions now, but thanks are in order to that Japanese developer who has spent what I'm sure is an enormous amount of time working on this driver. Dave -- -- NewtonList is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Shop buy.com and save. <http://lowendmac.com/ad/buy.com.html> Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> NewtonList info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/newton.html> 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/newtonlist%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Macintosh? Get free email and more at Applelinks! <http://www.applelinks.com>
