Re: OT: Windows laptop with AirPort possible?
On 1/10/04 11:12 PM, Laurent Daudelin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I got this crappy laptop from work which I need to setup in the event I got production support to do. It is a Dell Latitude D600 with the Dell TrueMobile 1300, which is a 802.11b wireless card. I have an ABS that works fine with my PowerBook, but no matter what I did, I can't seem to connect the friggin' PC on the network. I changed the settings for TCP/IP for a static address, since all my computers on my network have a static IP address, I entered all information for the router and the DNS server, the thing still report that there is no network. The laptop comes with a control panel named TrueMobile 1300 Client Utility. This control panel lets me see and connect to network. I can see my ABS name and configure it. Still, no network connection. What am I missing? Friggin', stupid Windows crap! The first thing I do with PCs is make sure the card is 802.11b and not 802.11a but that obviously isn't the problem here. But I mention it in case others check the archive for similar problems. With Win98SE and higher putting a PC on the network isn't too difficult except for the fact that prior to Win2K and XP at least 1 restart was necessary. The one problem I do see fairly often with Windows and WiFi is security. To see if this is the problem you are experiencing, change your ABS's config to turn off WEP and see if the PC can connect. If it can you'll need to play around with the various security options to see if one can be made compatible with the card. You should also make sure you have the most up to date drivers/config software for your PCs card. Cheers david ~~~ The past tempts us, the present confuses us, and the future frightens us...and our lives slip away, moment by moment, lost in that vast, terrible in-between. -- Centauri emperor, The Coming of Shadows -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://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 ---
Re: OT: Windows laptop with AirPort possible?
on 11/01/04 00:33, Robin Ashe at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 1/10/04 8:12 PM, Laurent Daudelin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I got this crappy laptop from work which I need to setup in the event I got production support to do. It is a Dell Latitude D600 with the Dell TrueMobile 1300, which is a 802.11b wireless card. I have an ABS that works fine with my PowerBook, but no matter what I did, I can't seem to connect the friggin' PC on the network. I changed the settings for TCP/IP for a static address, since all my computers on my network have a static IP address, I entered all information for the router and the DNS server, the thing still report that there is no network. The laptop comes with a control panel named TrueMobile 1300 Client Utility. This control panel lets me see and connect to network. I can see my ABS name and configure it. Still, no network connection. What am I missing? Friggin', stupid Windows crap! -Laurent. I know the 1150 is a rebranded Lucent WaveLan Gold, but I don't know about the 1300. Try it out on one of your Mac laptops and see if it recognizes it as an AirPort card. If it doesn't that could be your problem. I don't think that AirPort has very good compatibility with non-airport (Lucent/Orinoco) hardware. Hmmm, that might be hard since the card is, according to Dell, a mini-PCI internal card. Never heard of them, but that rules out testing them in a PowerBook... -Laurent. -- Laurent Daudelin AIM/iChat: LaurentDaudelinhttp://nemesys.dyndns.org Logiciels Nemesys Software mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] dangling pointer n.: [common] A reference that doesn't actually lead anywhere (in C and some other languages, a pointer that doesn't actually point at anything valid). Usually this happens because it formerly pointed to something that has moved or disappeared. Used as jargon in a generalization of its techspeak meaning; for example, a local phone number for a person who has since moved to the other coast is a dangling pointer. Compare dead link. -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://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 ---
Re: OT: Windows laptop with AirPort possible?
on 11/01/04 09:16, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 1/10/04 11:12 PM, Laurent Daudelin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I got this crappy laptop from work which I need to setup in the event I got production support to do. It is a Dell Latitude D600 with the Dell TrueMobile 1300, which is a 802.11b wireless card. I have an ABS that works fine with my PowerBook, but no matter what I did, I can't seem to connect the friggin' PC on the network. I changed the settings for TCP/IP for a static address, since all my computers on my network have a static IP address, I entered all information for the router and the DNS server, the thing still report that there is no network. The laptop comes with a control panel named TrueMobile 1300 Client Utility. This control panel lets me see and connect to network. I can see my ABS name and configure it. Still, no network connection. What am I missing? Friggin', stupid Windows crap! The first thing I do with PCs is make sure the card is 802.11b and not 802.11a but that obviously isn't the problem here. But I mention it in case others check the archive for similar problems. With Win98SE and higher putting a PC on the network isn't too difficult except for the fact that prior to Win2K and XP at least 1 restart was necessary. The one problem I do see fairly often with Windows and WiFi is security. To see if this is the problem you are experiencing, change your ABS's config to turn off WEP and see if the PC can connect. If it can you'll need to play around with the various security options to see if one can be made compatible with the card. You should also make sure you have the most up to date drivers/config software for your PCs card. WEP is turned off on my ABS. I turned it off when I wanted my Newton eMate to get on the network. It was easier that way. The laptop is running W2K Pro. I downloaded the latest driver on Friday and proceeded to install them. -Laurent. -- Laurent Daudelin AIM/iChat: LaurentDaudelinhttp://nemesys.dyndns.org Logiciels Nemesys Software mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] elder days n.: The heroic age of hackerdom (roughly, pre-1980); the era of the PDP-10, TECO, ITS, and the ARPANET. This term has been rather consciously adopted from J. R. R. Tolkien's fantasy epic The Lord of the Rings. Compare Iron Age; see also elvish and Great Worm. -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://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 ---
Re: OT: Windows laptop with AirPort possible?
On 1/11/04 12:30 PM, Laurent Daudelin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 11/01/04 09:16, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 1/10/04 11:12 PM, Laurent Daudelin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I got this crappy laptop from work which I need to setup in the event I got production support to do. It is a Dell Latitude D600 with the Dell TrueMobile 1300, which is a 802.11b wireless card. I have an ABS that works fine with my PowerBook, but no matter what I did, I can't seem to connect the friggin' PC on the network. I changed the settings for TCP/IP for a static address, since all my computers on my network have a static IP address, I entered all information for the router and the DNS server, the thing still report that there is no network. The laptop comes with a control panel named TrueMobile 1300 Client Utility. This control panel lets me see and connect to network. I can see my ABS name and configure it. Still, no network connection. What am I missing? Friggin', stupid Windows crap! The first thing I do with PCs is make sure the card is 802.11b and not 802.11a but that obviously isn't the problem here. But I mention it in case others check the archive for similar problems. With Win98SE and higher putting a PC on the network isn't too difficult except for the fact that prior to Win2K and XP at least 1 restart was necessary. The one problem I do see fairly often with Windows and WiFi is security. To see if this is the problem you are experiencing, change your ABS's config to turn off WEP and see if the PC can connect. If it can you'll need to play around with the various security options to see if one can be made compatible with the card. You should also make sure you have the most up to date drivers/config software for your PCs card. WEP is turned off on my ABS. I turned it off when I wanted my Newton eMate to get on the network. It was easier that way. The laptop is running W2K Pro. I downloaded the latest driver on Friday and proceeded to install them. Darn - that's all I can think of off the top of my head. Unfortunately while I can diagnose and fix lots of Mac problems without ever seeing the computer, I can't do the same with Windoze. Sorry. === The terrible thing about terrorism is that ultimately it destroys those who practise it. Slowly but surely, as they try to extinguish life in others, the light within them dies. Terry Waite -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://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 ---
Re: OT: Windows laptop with AirPort possible?
Laurent- On your Dell, make sure that the checkbox __Automatically detect settings__ is NOT checked. It always screws with network/internet use. Find this in Control Panel:Internet Options:Connections:LAN Settings -or- from inside internet explorer:tools:internet options:connections:LAN Settings If you are setting IP, and DNS properties - then you are already deep in the TCP/IP properties - if the above doesn't help I would roll back to DHCP and give it a try. stein -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://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 ---
Re: OT: Windows laptop with AirPort possible?
Hmmm, that might be hard since the card is, according to Dell, a mini-PCI internal card. Never heard of them, but that rules out testing them in a PowerBook... -Laurent. That just means it's a standard PCI card as far as interface goes and is just small enough to fit into a laptop. But yeah, that does throw my idea out the window. -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://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 ---
OT: Windows laptop with AirPort possible?
I got this crappy laptop from work which I need to setup in the event I got production support to do. It is a Dell Latitude D600 with the Dell TrueMobile 1300, which is a 802.11b wireless card. I have an ABS that works fine with my PowerBook, but no matter what I did, I can't seem to connect the friggin' PC on the network. I changed the settings for TCP/IP for a static address, since all my computers on my network have a static IP address, I entered all information for the router and the DNS server, the thing still report that there is no network. The laptop comes with a control panel named TrueMobile 1300 Client Utility. This control panel lets me see and connect to network. I can see my ABS name and configure it. Still, no network connection. What am I missing? Friggin', stupid Windows crap! -Laurent. -- Laurent Daudelin AIM/iChat: LaurentDaudelinhttp://nemesys.dyndns.org Logiciels Nemesys Software mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] field servoid [play on `android'] /fee'ld ser'voyd/ n.: Representative of a field service organization (see field circus). This has many of the implications of droid. -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://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 ---
Re: OT: Windows laptop with AirPort possible?
On 1/10/04 8:12 PM, Laurent Daudelin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I got this crappy laptop from work which I need to setup in the event I got production support to do. It is a Dell Latitude D600 with the Dell TrueMobile 1300, which is a 802.11b wireless card. I have an ABS that works fine with my PowerBook, but no matter what I did, I can't seem to connect the friggin' PC on the network. I changed the settings for TCP/IP for a static address, since all my computers on my network have a static IP address, I entered all information for the router and the DNS server, the thing still report that there is no network. The laptop comes with a control panel named TrueMobile 1300 Client Utility. This control panel lets me see and connect to network. I can see my ABS name and configure it. Still, no network connection. What am I missing? Friggin', stupid Windows crap! -Laurent. I know the 1150 is a rebranded Lucent WaveLan Gold, but I don't know about the 1300. Try it out on one of your Mac laptops and see if it recognizes it as an AirPort card. If it doesn't that could be your problem. I don't think that AirPort has very good compatibility with non-airport (Lucent/Orinoco) hardware. Another option might be to try out DHCP instead of Static IP. -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://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 ---
