Re: Open Firmware On WallStreets

2004-06-13 Thread Larry le Mac
From: Susan Platter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Useful though they are, neither of those links answers my query about why reset-nvram did not appear to work for me, as in my quoted paragraph starting,"When I tried this on my Wallstreet..." Completely useless answer, but it didn't work for me either. Wall

Re: Wall Street, Wi-fi, and OS 9.1?

2004-06-13 Thread Andrew Kershaw
At 5:42 PM -0600 6/13/04, Andrew Kershaw wrote: The AirPort card is a special card with something funny going on. It's actually CardBus, but it doesn't work in CardBus slots. I've read that Apple switched a few pins around so that it will not work in standard CardBus slots but only in the AirPo

Re: Wall Street, Wi-fi, and OS 9.1?

2004-06-13 Thread Clark Martin
At 9:30 PM -0400 6/13/04, Laurent Daudelin wrote: Actually, the first generation AirPort card uses a standard PCMCIA connector, so you could connect one in a Wallstreet. However, since the card expects an external antenna, You wouldn't be able to do much with it in your Wallstreet. The cards that w

Re: Wall Street, Wi-fi, and OS 9.1?

2004-06-13 Thread Clark Martin
At 5:42 PM -0600 6/13/04, Andrew Kershaw wrote: The AirPort card is a special card with something funny going on. It's actually CardBus, but it doesn't work in CardBus slots. I've read that Apple switched a few pins around so that it will not work in standard CardBus slots but only in the AirPo

Re: Wall Street, wi-fi, and OS 9.1

2004-06-13 Thread Clark Martin
At 10:34 PM -0400 6/13/04, Gary Goldberg wrote: >There is no need for a cardbus card. I had an ORiNICO Silver card in a Wallstreet and the card worked right off the box with the AirPort software in OS 9. -Laurent. Sorry, I don't understand. Where DOES such a card go, if not in a Cardbus slot? In

Re: Wall Street, Wi-fi, and OS 9.1?

2004-06-13 Thread Clark Martin
At 3:41 PM -0700 6/13/04, George Mogiljansky wrote: So there is no hack for the Airport card for the Wallstreet for OS 9 ? No, the Airport card while physically similar in size, shape and connector to PC Card (PCMCIA) is not in any way compatible. And it would be unlikely that anyone would crea

Re: PowerLogix Blue Chip upgrade details?

2004-06-13 Thread Clark Martin
At 7:53 PM -0600 6/13/04, Andrew Kershaw wrote: Lombards are still going for quite a bit of money on eBay, which really vexes me. They are nice machines, but they aren't quite as capable as, say, a Pismo. They're basically a Wallstreet (ok, a little faster, slimmer, and lighter) with a faster

Re: Wall Street, wi-fi, and OS 9.1

2004-06-13 Thread Andrew Kershaw
>There is no need for a cardbus card. I had an ORiNICO Silver card in a Wallstreet and the card worked right off the box with the AirPort software in OS 9. -Laurent. Sorry, I don't understand. Where DOES such a card go, if not in a Cardbus slot? In an expansion bay? It would go in the CardBus slo

Re: Wall Street, wi-fi, and OS 9.1

2004-06-13 Thread Laurent Daudelin
on 13/06/04 22:34, Gary Goldberg at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> There is no need for a cardbus card. I had an ORiNICO Silver card in a >> Wallstreet and the card worked right off the box with the AirPort software >> in OS 9. > >> -Laurent. > > Sorry, I don't understand. Where DOES such a card go

Wall Street, wi-fi, and OS 9.1

2004-06-13 Thread Gary Goldberg
>There is no need for a cardbus card. I had an ORiNICO Silver card in a >Wallstreet and the card worked right off the box with the AirPort software >in OS 9. >-Laurent. Sorry, I don't understand. Where DOES such a card go, if not in a Cardbus slot? In an expansion bay? Seems I deleted all my Air

Pismo screen distress

2004-06-13 Thread Barry Gamble
Unless the screen changes in brightness there is no reason to touch the Cold Cathode inverter board. I would always look at things that can wear like the screen hinge rubbing on the wire harness. Good hunting. -- G-Books is sponsored by and... Small Dog Electronics

Re: PowerLogix Blue Chip upgrade details?

2004-06-13 Thread Andrew Kershaw
From: Andrew Kershaw alk(a-t)mac.com Subject: Thermal Paste Rules! I picked up a PowerLogix Blue Chip/WS 466 for my Wallstreet 233MHz/512kB recently. (A _very_ nice upgrade, by the way. The Wallstreet now gives my Pismo 500 a run for it's money on most tasks.) Drew I've been contemplating a pr

Re: Wall Street, Wi-fi, and OS 9.1?

2004-06-13 Thread Andrew Kershaw
Actually, the first generation AirPort card uses a standard PCMCIA connector, so you could connect one in a Wallstreet. However, since the card expects an external antenna, You wouldn't be able to do much with it in your Wallstreet. That's not true. AFAIK, there's only one generation of AirPort car

Re: Wall Street, Wi-fi, and OS 9.1?

2004-06-13 Thread Bigbikerbo
Actually, This isn't entirely correct.. The original airport card has a slightly different connector witha different 'lockout' pin, which prevents its use in a pcmcia slot. Furthermore it's got a certain 'resistor' (required by Apple of the OEM), placed across 2 pins which could cuase prematur

Re: Wall Street, Wi-fi, and OS 9.1?

2004-06-13 Thread Laurent Daudelin
on 13/06/04 19:08, Ken at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > My Reply follows quote. On 13/06/2004 15:41 [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > >> So there is no hack for the Airport card for the >> Wallstreet for OS 9 ? >> George >> >> --- Laurent Daudelin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >>> on 13/06/04 16:31, Gary G

Re: PowerLogix Blue Chip upgrade details?

2004-06-13 Thread Andrew in Ann Arbor
From: Andrew Kershaw alk(a-t)mac.com Subject: Thermal Paste Rules! I picked up a PowerLogix Blue Chip/WS 466 for my Wallstreet 233MHz/512kB recently. (A _very_ nice upgrade, by the way. The Wallstreet now gives my Pismo 500 a run for it's money on most tasks.) Drew I've been contemplating a pr

Re: .wmv video files?

2004-06-13 Thread Richard Bae
It depends on which wmv codec was used. If it was encoded in the newer wmv 9 codec you'll have to use windows media player for mac. Otherwise I prefer VLC videolan.org another option is to use mplayer. -Richard Bae richardbae.com On 13 Jun 2004, at 17.20, David Freels wrote: What software can

.wmv video files?

2004-06-13 Thread David Freels
What software can be used to view .wmv video files on a Mac? -- David Freels 2948 Windfield Circle Tucker, GA 30084-6714 770-491-6776 (phone) 720-234-5757 (fax) mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.freelanceforum.org/df -- G-Books is sponsored by and... Small Dog Electronics

Re: Wall Street, Wi-fi, and OS 9.1?

2004-06-13 Thread Andrew Kershaw
Is there any way to make the 3rd party rebranded cards work with the AirPort software? I've got both an IBM branded and a Cabletron branded WaveLAN card which appear to be identical to the 'real' Lucent WaveLAN cards. The OEM cards (called WaveLAN or ORiNOCO) will work with Apple's AirPort dr

Re: Wall Street, Wi-fi, and OS 9.1?

2004-06-13 Thread Christopher Kolp
Is there any way to make the 3rd party rebranded cards work with the AirPort software? I've got both an IBM branded and a Cabletron branded WaveLAN card which appear to be identical to the 'real' Lucent WaveLAN cards. The OEM cards (called WaveLAN or ORiNOCO) will work with Apple's AirPort d

Wallstreet modem problem

2004-06-13 Thread Beverly Woods
I have a friend whose Wallstreet was connected to the phone lines during a storm last year, whereupon the internal modem quit working. He's used an external ever since. Recently I saw a Wallstreet modem on the Swap list and ordered it for him. I put it in, but could not get it to work. The profile

Re: Wall Street, Wi-fi, and OS 9.1?

2004-06-13 Thread Andrew Kershaw
I called MacMall yesterday wondering if I they could recommend a wi-fi Cardbus card for my Wall Street since I don't want to depend on a 3rd party card's software to get it to work when I'm out of town. They told me I'd need OS X. True? The sheer amount of FUD out there about these things

Re: Wall Street, Wi-fi, and OS 9.1?

2004-06-13 Thread Laurent Daudelin
on 13/06/04 18:41, George Mogiljansky at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > So there is no hack for the Airport card for the > Wallstreet for OS 9 ? If the card is based on the Lucent chipset, there is no hack needed. ORiNOCO and Agere cards are most likely compatible. An ORiNOCO Silver or Gold card shou

Re: Wall Street, Wi-fi, and OS 9.1?

2004-06-13 Thread Laurent Daudelin
on 13/06/04 18:38, Clark Martin at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > At 2:09 PM -0700 6/13/04, Ken wrote: >> My Reply follows quote. On 13/06/2004 13:31 [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: >> >>> I called MacMall yesterday wondering if >>> I they could recommend a wi-fi Cardbus card >>> for my Wall Street since I d

Re: Wall Street, Wi-fi, and OS 9.1?

2004-06-13 Thread Ken
My Reply follows quote. On 13/06/2004 15:41 [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: >So there is no hack for the Airport card for the >Wallstreet for OS 9 ? >George > >--- Laurent Daudelin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >wrote: >> on 13/06/04 16:31, Gary Goldberg at >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >> > I called MacMall ye

Re: Wall Street, Wi-fi, and OS 9.1?

2004-06-13 Thread Clark Martin
At 2:09 PM -0700 6/13/04, Ken wrote: My Reply follows quote. On 13/06/2004 13:31 [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I called MacMall yesterday wondering if I they could recommend a wi-fi Cardbus card for my Wall Street since I don't want to depend on a 3rd party card's software to get it to work whe

Re: Wall Street, Wi-fi, and OS 9.1?

2004-06-13 Thread George Mogiljansky
So there is no hack for the Airport card for the Wallstreet for OS 9 ? George --- Laurent Daudelin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > on 13/06/04 16:31, Gary Goldberg at > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > I called MacMall yesterday wondering if > > I they could recommend a wi-fi Cardbus card > > for my W

Re: Wall Street, Wi-fi, and OS 9.1?

2004-06-13 Thread Laurent Daudelin
on 13/06/04 16:31, Gary Goldberg at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I called MacMall yesterday wondering if > I they could recommend a wi-fi Cardbus card > for my Wall Street since I don't want to depend > on a 3rd party card's software to get it to > work when I'm out of town. > > They told me I'd ne

Re: Wallstreet Crashes

2004-06-13 Thread Laurent Daudelin
on 13/06/04 15:00, Bill Buckhaults at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > My trusty Wallstreet for the past five years is now driving me nuts. It > frequently crashes while surfing with Netscape Navigator 7.1, but only > when I try to use bookmarks. It gives error message #1 or #2 and > sometimes states C

Re: Wall Street, Wi-fi, and OS 9.1?

2004-06-13 Thread Ken
My Reply follows quote. On 13/06/2004 13:31 [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > I called MacMall yesterday wondering if >I they could recommend a wi-fi Cardbus card >for my Wall Street since I don't want to depend >on a 3rd party card's software to get it to >work when I'm out of town. > > The

Wall Street, Wi-fi, and OS 9.1?

2004-06-13 Thread Gary Goldberg
I called MacMall yesterday wondering if I they could recommend a wi-fi Cardbus card for my Wall Street since I don't want to depend on a 3rd party card's software to get it to work when I'm out of town. They told me I'd need OS X. True? -- G-Books is sponsored by

Re: Airport trouble.

2004-06-13 Thread invicta
On 13 Jun 2004, at 21:30, G-Books wrote: From: "Tim Hodgson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Airport trouble. Date: Sun, 13 Jun 2004 12:41:36 +0100 Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Sun, Jun 13, 2004 at 1:23 pm +0200, invicta wrote: Hello All, This morning I had t

Wallstreet Crashes

2004-06-13 Thread Bill Buckhaults
My trusty Wallstreet for the past five years is now driving me nuts. It frequently crashes while surfing with Netscape Navigator 7.1, but only when I try to use bookmarks. It gives error message #1 or #2 and sometimes states Control strip extension address error and other times, Finder address

Re: Open Firmware On WallStreets

2004-06-13 Thread Laurent Daudelin
on 13/06/04 05:01, Susan Platter at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Useful though they are, neither of those links answers my query about > why reset-nvram did not appear to work for me, as in my quoted > paragraph starting,"When I tried this on my Wallstreet..." > Any offers? Well, I think that someo

Re: Thermal Paste Rules!

2004-06-13 Thread Beniamino Cenci Goga
My Wallstreet with BlueChip 500 never runs hotter than 116°F. It has 384 RAM. Only a year ago it overheated, but after applying a little bit of thermal grease and re seating the heat dissipator it is rock solid. I believe it is a lucky unit. Ben -- G-Books is sponsored by

Re: Airport trouble.

2004-06-13 Thread Tim Hodgson
On Sun, Jun 13, 2004 at 1:23 pm +0200, invicta wrote: >Hello All, > >This morning I had to restore my OS X 10.3.4 system because of printer >problems. All went well but I lost my Airportnet connection. I'm asked >the password I have used when I installed the base station. Since than >I have cha

Airport trouble.

2004-06-13 Thread invicta
Hello All, This morning I had to restore my OS X 10.3.4 system because of printer problems. All went well but I lost my Airportnet connection. I'm asked the password I have used when I installed the base station. Since than I have changed this password but it is being refused asking for the ori

Re: Open Firmware On WallStreets

2004-06-13 Thread Tim Hodgson
On Sun, Jun 13, 2004 at 10:01 am +0100, Susan Platter wrote: >Useful though they are, neither of those links answers my query about >why reset-nvram did not appear to work for me, as in my quoted >paragraph starting,"When I tried this on my Wallstreet..." >Any offers? I just did a search in my fi

Re: Open Firmware On WallStreets

2004-06-13 Thread Susan Platter
Useful though they are, neither of those links answers my query about why reset-nvram did not appear to work for me, as in my quoted paragraph starting,"When I tried this on my Wallstreet..." Any offers? Susan Platter Swindon, Wiltshire, England On Saturday, June 12, 2004, at 08:30 PM, G-Books w