Re: Help needed with proposed airport network
Gerald Jennings From: Calypso Organization 1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2004 11:56:52 - Said: Many thanks to all who are helping. Glad to do so. We also have on the side being unused a spare complete Cisco aeronet system (the old 802.11b spec) which was originally going into a couple of PC's until I found out that my computer skills just aint that good. There is Mac software for that Cisco PC Card if you need it. You will find a link to it on my FAQ page. Ken Vann == Old Macs have new uses with WiFi. See my FAQ for what you need at http://home.earthlink.net/~kjvann/ -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html PowerBooks list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/powerbooks.shtml -- 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/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Re: Help needed with proposed airport network
Yes it was the refurb at $19.99 plus packing plus postage!!! We have a US publishing agent who tells me that despite being the other side of the pond he could ship it to me for about $8-$9 Sometimes it gets you wondering if they think we are all idiots - gah! All the best, Gerald : Re: Help needed with proposed airport network On Dec 2, 2004, at 11:56 AM, Calypso Organization 1 wrote: .. Then TigerDirect is selling a D-link DWL-122 USB wireless adapter for $20, but it has OSX support only. Bruce, Thought you might like to know that with their postage and shipping they wanted $81! OY! Was this for a new one? The price I quoted was found via froogle and was for a refurb... -- Bruce Johnson This is the sig who says 'Ni!' -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html PowerBooks list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/powerbooks.shtml -- 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/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html PowerBooks list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/powerbooks.shtml -- 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/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Re: Help needed with proposed airport network
Many thanks to all who are helping. All the machines at present have 56K internal or external modems and we can cable together all except the powerbooks - so a wide choice.We can upgrade the IMac to OSX - no problem here as we now have all the Mac, O,S.s from 7 to X available, (pity we cannot convince the Crescendo Upgraded 7600 its a proper full G3 as we could then put 9.1 onto it as well) and will try to get the Wireless adapter Bruce mentions - hope they ship to the UK! as things like this are gold dust over here, as is the potential Farallon/Proxim PCI adaptor card for the 7600, so if anyone sees one we are in the market - PLEASE . We also have on the side being unused a spare complete Cisco aeronet system (the old 802.11b spec) which was originally going into a couple of PC's until I found out that my computer skills just aint that good Will keep hunting and keep you all posted. If the very worst occurs the market will be full of unwanted gadgets! Gerald Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html PowerBooks list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/powerbooks.shtml -- 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/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Re: Help needed with proposed airport network
.. Then TigerDirect is selling a D-link DWL-122 USB wireless adapter for $20, but it has OSX support only. Bruce, Thought you might like to know that with their postage and shipping they wanted $81! Gerald -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html PowerBooks list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/powerbooks.shtml -- 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/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Re: Help needed with proposed airport network
On Dec 2, 2004, at 11:56 AM, Calypso Organization 1 wrote: .. Then TigerDirect is selling a D-link DWL-122 USB wireless adapter for $20, but it has OSX support only. Bruce, Thought you might like to know that with their postage and shipping they wanted $81! OY! Was this for a new one? The price I quoted was found via froogle and was for a refurb... -- Bruce Johnson This is the sig who says 'Ni!' -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html PowerBooks list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/powerbooks.shtml -- 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/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Re: Help needed with proposed airport network
Bruce Johnson wrote: AFAIK all iMacs can accept an airport card. Not the case with Bondi Blues -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html PowerBooks list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/powerbooks.shtml -- 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/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Re: Help needed with proposed airport network
This is one way to do it, but prehaps not the correct way. As you want to use the 7600 as you router, you will need a software router (IP Net Router) to make that work. You might have to add another Ethernet card to the 7600 unless you are using a modem to connect to the Internet. A better way to go is with a stand alone hardware router, like the Snow Base Station, or other, which will let you share your internet with both the wireless and wired machines. As the 7600 and iMac are not portable machines, this should not be a problem. This is should work with either dial up or DSL/Cable. The cost of the IP Net Router and a used Snow Base Station is about the same. If it is not practicable to run wires between the 7600/iMac and the Base Station, then a Ethernet wireless adaptor should work. There are some links on my FAQ to a Dlink product that will work under OS 9. You might be able to find one of the PCI adaptor cards for the WaveLan PC Card you already have. If so, this could be used to put the 7600 on wireless. Farallon/Proxim also had a Skyline PCI Card which used the Skyline PC card to put a PCI slot Mac on wireless. If you found a Farallon/Proxim PCI adaptor, then you could use the Skyline PC card you already have, and convert the PB5300c to use one of the extra WaveLan Gold cards. Please let me know what your final solution is. Ken Vann Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Calypso Organization 1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Help needed with proposed airport network Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 13:08:47 - At present we have; a PB5300C /OS 9 all fired up with a Proxim card; a Power PC upgraded 540C /OS 8.6 with an enterasys card; a PowerMac 7600 / OS 9 upgraded to G3 using a Sonic Crescendo but no radio card facility; and a recently aquired iMac Blue which only has USB ports. We have an Apple Airport and several spare WIFI cards all of which are compatible with any proposed system ( mainly Wavelan Gold and Wavelan Bronze mainly). Does anyone have any ideas on a good or the the best way to put this puzzle together so that possibly we could use a landline from the 7600 to the Airport and then wireless the 5300 and the 540? or, better still, is there a way of connecting the iMac somehow into the loop bearing in mind it only has USB outlets and we cannot see a means of equiping it with a card as it is a tray loading and not slot loading version? Sorry some of this is strictly speaking off-topic but its all to get the powerbooks functional n the end. Thanks n advance, Gerald Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com End of PowerBooks Digest #1953 ** == Old Macs have new uses with WiFi. See my FAQ for what you need at http://home.earthlink.net/~kjvann/ -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html PowerBooks list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/powerbooks.shtml -- 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/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Re: Help needed with proposed airport network
On Nov 30, 2004, at 9:28 PM, David wrote: Bruce Johnson wrote: AFAIK all iMacs can accept an airport card. Not the case with Bondi Blues Crap.. Then TigerDirect is selling a D-link DWL-122 USB wireless adapter for $20, but it has OSX support only. The cheaper solution is to use a wired connection, the more expensive route is something like D-links DWL-810+ wireless ethernet bridge. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pha Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html PowerBooks list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/powerbooks.shtml -- 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/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Re: Help needed with proposed airport network
At present we have; a PB5300C /OS 9 all fired up with a Proxim card; a Power PC upgraded 540C /OS 8.6 with an enterasys card; a PowerMac 7600 / OS 9 upgraded to G3 using a Sonic Crescendo but no radio card facility; and a recently aquired iMac Blue which only has USB ports. We have an Apple Airport and several spare WIFI cards all of which are compatible with any proposed system ( mainly Wavelan Gold and Wavelan Bronze mainly). Does anyone have any ideas on a good or the the best way to put this puzzle together so that possibly we could use a landline from the 7600 to the Airport and then wireless the 5300 and the 540? or, better still, is there a way of connecting the iMac somehow into the loop bearing in mind it only has USB outlets and we cannot see a means of equiping it with a card as it is a tray loading and not slot loading version? Sorry some of this is strictly speaking off-topic but its all to get the powerbooks functional n the end. Thanks n advance, Gerald Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html PowerBooks list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/powerbooks.shtml -- 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/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Re: Help needed with proposed airport network
On Nov 30, 2004, at 6:08 AM, Calypso Organization 1 wrote: At present we have; a PB5300C /OS 9 all fired up with a Proxim card; a Power PC upgraded 540C /OS 8.6 with an enterasys card; a PowerMac 7600 / OS 9 upgraded to G3 using a Sonic Crescendo but no radio card facility; and a recently aquired iMac Blue which only has USB ports. We have an Apple Airport and several spare WIFI cards all of which are compatible with any proposed system ( mainly Wavelan Gold and Wavelan Bronze mainly). Does anyone have any ideas on a good or the the best way to put this puzzle together so that possibly we could use a landline from the 7600 to the Airport and then wireless the 5300 and the 540? or, better still, is there a way of connecting the iMac somehow into the loop bearing in mind it only has USB outlets and we cannot see a means of equiping it with a card as it is a tray loading and not slot loading version? AFAIK all iMacs can accept an airport card. If not, it and the 7600 can use a ethernet to wireless bridge such as: http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/products/index.html? action=c2hvd19wcm9kdWN0X292ZXJ2aWV3product_uid=62800_LOC=US which will work with anything that sports an ethernet port. With the airport you can connect the ethernet port to a small ethernet switch ($10-$50, I found several under $20 via froogle. Trendnet is a decent cheap brand) and the iMac and 7600 to that via wired connections. If your physical layout works with that, this is the simplest solution: Powerbooks - - - -Airportswitch---7600, iMac. Problems arise if you've got a graphite airport and are connecting it's ethernet to a broadband internet connection. In that case you need to get a broadband router instead of a switch, but they can be gotten with several wired ports as well, enough to connect the wireless and wired systems to the internet. internet | PB- - - - -Airport--router--7600, iMac If you've got a snow airport, it's easier, because it has two ethernet connectons, one for the broadband WAN connection and one you can use for the wired segment of your LAN. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pha cy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html PowerBooks list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/powerbooks.shtml -- 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/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
