filesharing by firewire

gured". Furthermore the configuration box on the Lombard doesn't even provide a DHCP option, it insists on trying to configure by PPP as if it's trying to connect to the Internet. Is there some way to make this work. If not, is firewire disk mode an option, and how would I go abo

Re: firewire connectivity

be used to connect the two computers, which is at present the only use I have in mind. Neither one would need to draw power from the card, of course. BTW various FW cables are available on eBay, practically all of them in the $5-10 range; wouldn't a 6-pin-to-6-pin do the job? Be

firewire connectivity

hat I assume: the larger size is required on both ends, anyway). Is this the proper description of the necessary cord, and is it something I can pick up at Radio Shack? Or is something more specific and harder to find required? And if so, what is it CALLED? TIA. Best, Victoria -- G-Books is

Re: How to transfer from Lombard to G4 tower

maybe once I pick up a PCMCIA card and firewire cable the two computers will talk to each other again whether they feel like it or not. But a further small mystery: in that same box offering the firewire network option there was also something called "6 to 4" -- what on earth is THAT???

Re: How to transfer from Lombard to G4 tower

k, on the B&W which has on-board firewire: unfortunately no "FW networking port" shows up in the Network pane, just the modem (which works perfectly), and ethernet (which stopped working altogether a while back for some unfathomable reason). Best, Victoria -- G-Books is

Re: PowerBook G4+Sony Ericsson T610=?

Hi would it not be easier to just get a blue tooth dongle and go that way. I think the T610 has built in bluetooth. I use it with my sharp GX15 and Pismo to send photos across and have no trouble. vicki On 1 Nov 2005, at 11:31, Helen Nersesova wrote: Hi all! I'd like to synchronize/ tra

Re: How to transfer from Lombard to G4 tower

not much money, and some of the descriptions specify that they'll work on a Mac, but is the Lombard "Cardbus 2 compatible"? Best, Victoria -- G-Books is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives

Re: recommendations for 3400?

iCab -- it's fast and nimble. But keep a copy of Explorer around just in case. Which e-mail client? Outlook Express -- loads of features, including the capacity to manage multiple accounts, no annoying advertising as in Eudora, and FREE. Best, Victoria -- G-Books is sponsore

Re: Wallstreet and Duo

Hi Yes the duo adapter will power the wallstreet but i may not charge the battery at the same time. you might need to sleep the wallstreet to charge the battery. vicki On 28 Oct 2005, at 20:53, TVirkkala wrote: I have a Wallstreet I. I used to have a bunch of Duos, before they were stol

Re: file sharing over network?

-- but the second cable (which has never been anyplace where he could possibly get at it) was just as faulty. Best, Victoria -- G-Books is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurb

Re: file sharing over network?

ving file sharing on? I know in the Windows world it's a risk. I don't know what it would be, unless some evil-intentioned person had access to one of the computers and could invade the other one that way -- not a problem in my case, though for some people it probably would be.

Re: broken network

On Oct 19, 2005, at 11:20 AM, R. P. Bell wrote: Wow, Victoria, that IS a head-scratcher. Am I understanding you correctly, to say that the B&W "sees" the Lombard, and the Lombard "sees" the B&W, but they just won't connect? I don't know whet

Re: broken network

r, much less to whatever distant point I might want to take the PB). Best, Victoria -- 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

broken network

t a slow cumbersome nuisance! Any assistance will be greatly appreciated. Best, Victoria -- 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 o

Re: Wireless for Pismo to Airport Xtreme base

Hi I Use a Motorola wn825G card in one of the pismos i have it gives G speed when connecting to the Netgear router i have and is around £30. on Ebay It uses the airport drivers and is seen by the system as an airport extreme card. vicki What kind of card is best/compatible for a Pi

Re: Beyond X.2

I think that your problem will be the ram if you try just putting a stick of ram in the lower slot and then try to install again once installed then put back any other ram and away you go . thats how i got 10.3 on the lombard i had. And if you have access to a pismo then you can stick the

Re: Tiger on iBook G4?

Hi Jared I have a full set of 10.3.9 original G4 ibook discs and also the set of 4 restore disks for the G4 ibook if you need them. let me know vicki On 5 Oct 2005, at 02:15, Jared Noska wrote: Well, do you think that it would matter if say the iBook it was from had a newer CPU or if the

AVI files

Hi all just been sent some discs of my family at the other end of the country and they have been saved in avi video files My system is a pismo with 768 ram 500 cpu 30gb hdd and a combo drive cdrw/dvd running the latest version of X Tiger and I have quicktime 7 pro loaded but it cannot read t

Re: wireless options for lombard, USB?

On 6 Sep 2005, at 22:03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all I've been thinking of sharing Mail files between my Cube and my Lombard using a PC card but can't do it because the Cisco wireless card is plugged into the sole slot on the Lombard. Is there a wireless USB adaptor that I could use

Fire lite drive

Hi All Ok have a problem that seems to be boggling me, I use an external firelite drive to back up my powerbooks, It is partitioned in three parts one for my pismo one for my daughters pismo and one for the family ibook. This is used once a week for back up and that is it , Last night i p

Re: linux on a pismo

Hi It is version 4.10 powerpc version. vicki > > > Which version of Ubuntu? > > Alan > -- G-Books is sponsored by and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | & CDRWs on Sale!

linux on a pismo

Hi All been playing around today with my spare pismo (back up mac) and deceided to load ubuntu linux on it and WOW!!! it is fast stable and very user friendly. The system specs before i started were 400cpu 384 ram 10gb hdd airport card fitted cdrw/dvd combo, running 10.4.2 now running linux I thi

pismo

Hi All sorry for this but i have a spare pismo and rather than it go to waste, i want to trade it for a tower to use as a print server. need to know if anyone in the uk needs a pismo, that would want to trade for a g4 tower. i do not need much ram or a hdd in the tower just a working

pismo

Hi All Quick Question I have a pismo that is set up with air port card running 10.4.2 and one that has the intel pro wireless card running system 9.2.2 what i want to do is make both of them see the network printers i use via wireless. The pismo with 10.4.2 is fine no problems but the on

itunes

Hi all i need to convert some itunes 4.8 tracks that are mpeg 4 back to mp3 how do i do it . TIA vicki -- G-Books is sponsored by and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | & CDR

Re: 802.11g PB, 802.11b router- slow??

The only 802.11x issue I've heard of with recent PB's was the TiBook had less reception due to all the metal, but they moved the antenna plus added autoconfig stuff (2 antennas for 802.11x if you don't need the one for BT). Is this b router, g on the powerbook slowdown a real issue? I don't

base station

Hi all i have put this on the swap list but had no response as yet. I need a graphite base station that does not work but has a good case. (reason is my daughter decided to throw the base station and has smashed the case, the station works perfect still so all i need is the case to transplant

Re: Wireless Lombard?

I Think you can use the orinoco software with the dell truemobile card. try that one first it is a free download from someone on this lists website. vicki -- G-Books is sponsored by and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check o

Re: is my iBook screwed

Hi Tim you are also using a G4 ibook and the logic board replacement is G3 according to apple none of the g4 books are affected. Vicki On 14 Apr 2005, at 13:43, Malcolm Cornelius wrote: Mine is UV4466X (I didn't give the entire serial number), so obviously it is not in the range and the prob

Re: DSL and wireless

Just recently got SBC DSL and was wondering what I will have to do to get my powerbook hooked up to it wirelessly. I had it and my B&W hooked up to my cable modem thru a wireless router, no problem. But after I got DSL and hooked my B&W to it, my wireless now doesnt want to play nice. It is a Netg

Re: battery power on wifi, G3 clamshell

Hi I have been using my new ibook for two weeks now and the battery only lasts for 3 hrs 50 with the airport card fitted and that is a new book. So 2hr + from a clamshell is good. I also have a 3400c with wifi via a mac wireless card, with the cd loaded and wireless being used for the net the b

re home net

Hi Dan. this is not really an option (Cables i mean) the Netgear is a 54mbps wireless router with four extra wired ports and the ABS i have is a graphite 11mbps. i want to use the ABS as a bridge but can not seem to get it to bridge between the wired port on the back of the G3 desktop and the N

Re: home net

I have left the access card list open to any cards until i get this sorted! I can control the access for all the books from either but not from both! the base station and the netgear. I wanted to use the base station to bridge the gap between the wired ethernet port on my desktop to the netgea

home net

Hi all I sent this to the powerbooks list but have had no reply ! Is there a list that can give me answers on networking a group of macs the best way possible. Here is what i intend to do but need help setting it up. First i will list the hard ware and then a rough idea of what i want then ple

Re: Blank disks not recognized

Hi Cheryl You say that the specs of your mac are internal cd/dvd and external q drive cdrw. OK someone tell me if i am wrong but why put a blank cd/dvd in the internal drive anyway. because there is nothing that you can do with it in there, because it is just a dvd not a burner and it would not

base station

Thanks to all it is now sorted vicki -- G-Books is sponsored by and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac

Re Base station

(Connect to it physically through a cable, don't attempt to admin it via wireless.) Tried that also gets me nowhere and it says Quote: This base station is protected by a password. Please enter the password. then a box for me to input the pass word. Vicki -- G-Books is sponsored by

Re: base station

I have tried the paper clip each time it just says the same thing. tried it for 10 secs then 30 secs then a minute. If i connect it to my cable modem it allows all the macs in the house to see it and to connect to the internet and each other, but i can not admin it and there fore i cannot have

graphite base station

Hi all got a graphite base station to use as a bridge between my upstairs mac without airport and my netgear wireless router. my problem is when i go t set up the base station it says it is password protected. It was second hand from an office clear out. how can i reset it. vicki -- G-Books is s

re ibook

Hi Thanks for the reply i really do not know why i did not think of it. Used the F1 key to dim the brightness on just the lcd and now i can close the lid and sit it under the studio display. many thanks Vicki -- G-Books is sponsored by and... Small Dog Electronicshtt

ibook

Hi all is there a way to turn the lcd display off on a g3 ibook when connected to an external monitor, keyboard and mouse. TIA vicki -- G-Books is sponsored by and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbi

test

this is a test Vicki's mac -- G-Books is sponsored by and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac G

ibook

Hi all. I need help to find out if there is a way to share a printer between G4 desktop, G3 (ibook 600) , and a 3400c/200, Both the desktop and the powerbook use 10.3.6 and share the desktops printer fine over a wireless connection but i want to ad this to the 3400c it is running 9.1 and has

ibook

Hi all. I need help to find out if there is a way to share a printer between G4 desktop, G3 (ibook 600) , and a 3400c/200, Both the desktop and the powerbook use 10.3.6 and share the desktops printer fine over a wireless connection but i want to ad this to the 3400c it is running 9.1 and has

Re: ibook

On 15 Nov 2004, at 19:09, Malcolm Cornelius wrote: Hi all i know this is a bit OT but what type of airport card does the ibook 14.1 600mhz take it is the 2002 model. also what type of ram does it take and how easy is it to change a pmu board in one of these. Original Airport, PC100 or PC133 144 pi

Re: ibook

On 15 Nov 2004, at 18:55, Andrew wrote: It takes the regular AirPort (not extreme) card. Ram should be PC100 or 133 SoDimm. so a ram chip from a lombard that is pc 100 so dimm should fit. -- G-Books is sponsored by and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com

ibook

Hi all i know this is a bit OT but what type of airport card does the ibook 14.1 600mhz take it is the 2002 model. also what type of ram does it take and how easy is it to change a pmu board in one of these. TIA vicki -- G-Books is sponsored by and... Small Dog Electronic

Re: MAC verses Mac

On Sunday, October 24, 2004, at 07:29 pm, Larry le Mac wrote: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] we're not even smart enuf to decide if we should go metric or english! That makes no sence what so ever as I studied electronics at University in England for 4 years and we used nothing but METRIC!!! What is "En

Re: Lombard -> eMac (was Mac vs. MAC)

Hi when i say copy i mean all the files that i need to keep like smi folder's and work files in appleworks 6 and my itunes files as i do not want to have to down load them again. They are not system folders or the like but there is a lot of different installers for bits that i am working on, and

Re: MAC verses Mac

Ok. So we get carried away a bit. Hey, that's what makes these lists xtra interesting! Gives us something to do while we're waiting for backups to finish! :) - Dan. -- Hi this interest's me i will be taking delivery of an Emac next week and i will need to back up all the info off of my Lomba

Re: MAC verses Mac

On Saturday, October 23, 2004, at 07:07 pm, Travis Martin wrote: No, Vicki, it's not being rude at all; I've been following it with interest and have found it informative. Notice, in fact, that the subject line has been changed from your original posting so as to reflect the newly morphed threa

Re: MAC verses Mac

From: Ben Dyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> So, 4kB * 4kB = 16kB^2 (where 1 square kilobyte is equal to a million square bytes, whatever that means). My point precisely!! --- Correctly, it should read: A megabyte is 1kB * 1024. Er, no... 1 KB * 1024 (not 1 kB) Larry Actually guy's is this really needed??

Re: Mainstreet

Hi I have just downloaded the airport 2.0.4 software from apple and tried that . still a no-go the software that i had installed was 2.0 according to the extensions. but like i said in my other mail i am happy with my wireless setup , it was more out of curiosity than anything. thanks vicki -

Re: Mainstreet

On Saturday, October 23, 2004, at 06:08 am, Bob wrote: specs are Lombard 400/ 384 ram/ 20gb hdd/ dvd/cdrw/ and Orinoco gold wi-fi card. the mac wireless drivers work fine for the OSX partition i have also. Hi bob my wallstreet runs fine in 9.2.2 with the Orinoco card as does the lombard but the

Re: Mainstreet

I bought an ORiNOCO 8461-05 802.11 a/b Combo Card Silver. Anybody know if this one should theoretically work or not? Vikki Duggan suggested: Go on to the low end mac sight! and go to the 1400 powerbook page. Then scroll down to the wireless part and click on the link and the orinoco installer

Re: Mainstreet

As for the ORiNOCO card, I don't think AirPort supports them under OS 9. Oops, wrong, wrong, wrong. The Apple Airport software will absolutely support the Orinoco Gold or Silver PC card in OS 9. You can also use the Orinoco software. Hi Bob i disagree with this ! If the airport software will abs

Re: Mainstreet

I did the same on an old Wallstreet and the card was immediately recognized, in 9.2.2, as a genuine AirPort card after restarting (after installing the AirPort software, not the card). If it doesn't work, I suspect that the card you bought, although an ORiNOCO, has a different chipset than the

vst disc in X

ed" On Oct 6, 2004, at 3:51 PM, victoria Duggan wrote: why does the vst zip not work in X mine works fine on my lombard in 10.1.5. vicki Hi i did not install any drivers i just put the drive in the bay without thinking and asp recognizes it, and the drive works fine just takes a couple of se

Re: Large or small (was Pismo vs ibook?)

why does the vst zip not work in X mine works fine on my lombard in 10.1.5. vicki On Wednesday, October 6, 2004, at 06:09 AM, Iain McShane wrote: All, Pismo vs ibook I just have just bought a Pismo 400Mhz, installed 768M RAM and a 60Gig Drive, it also came with a VST 6Gig drive bay, VST 250M Zip (

Re: CD burner for Pismo bay?

on 9/12/04 11:32 PM, Dan K at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Michael Richardson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> asked: >> I was wondering if there were any modifications >> that needed to be done to get the Samsung drive to >> work with your Lombard. Is there any software required >> to get this to work? I have a

Re: Motorola V400 & iPhoto on my PowerBook G3 via USB with OS X 10.3.5 and iPhoto 4.0.2 Will this Setup Work? Is this not the longest subject line in the history of LEM mailing lists?

on 9/12/04 9:49 PM, Dan Palka at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Will iPhoto recognize my Motorola V400 camera phone when attached via > USB? > > if not, what will? how can i get my pictures off? I haven't gotten > the cable off eBay yet but I want to know for future reference. > > I have the lates

Re: CD burner for Pismo bay?

on 9/11/04 1:59 PM, victoria duggan at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > on 9/11/04 2:00 PM, Laurent Daudelin at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> on 11/09/04 03:31, kaldav at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >>> I have acquired a Pismo 400 mhz with 597 mb ram. I will be upgrading &g

Re: CD burner for Pismo bay?

on 9/11/04 2:00 PM, Laurent Daudelin at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > on 11/09/04 03:31, kaldav at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> I have acquired a Pismo 400 mhz with 597 mb ram. I will be upgrading >> from OS9 to OSX. It has a DVD drive in it but I was wondering if I >> could buy a CD burner for it

wireless

Hi all ok help and advice needed. I currently use an orinoco gold card for wireless on my lombard and have on the way a belkin wireless card for use on a second laptop. has anyone used one of these belkin cards and if so what drivers do they use,as the drivers that you get with them are PC only.

Re: Applecare - impressed and not impressed

> From: Tom and Lisa P <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: "G-Books" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2004 15:41:19 -0400 > To: "G-Books" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Applecare - impressed and not impressed > >>> As an Apple Certified Technician I can assure you that if you s

Re: Applecare - impressed and not impressed

> >> >> As an Apple Certified Technician I can assure you that if you sent that >> machine to my shop I wouldn't have looked at that printout for more than a >> second and then I would have gone about my merry way troubleshooting it with >> *real* utilities. Not lightweight consumer stuff like

Re: Turning off Sleep

it might turn a bit sticky but try a bit of blue tac over the magnetic lock to the catch. as i think the lock has something to do with the sleep command when closed and engaged. vicki I would like my iBook to stay on when the screen is down. I don't want the screen on, just I don't want it to

Re: advice re secondhand laptop configuration

On Sunday, August 15, 2004, at 11:21 am, kaldav wrote: Hello, I would value people's suggestions regarding a laptop to purchase second hand. It needs to be faster than my 3400, run both OS9 and OSX, preferably able to boot into OS9 as I have software to run and little for OSX. What would be the

Re: USB external hard drive on Lombard

I am trying to use an ACOM 80 Gbyte USB/Firewire hard drive on a G3 Lombard running OS9.0 i downloaded USB mass storage support 1.3.5 from Apple per the ACOM instructions. I can see that a device is connected to the USB port using the Apple system profiler but can't get any farther. I know the

Re: PowerBook Superdrive Question

MATSHITA DVD-R UJ-815: Manufacturer: MATSHITA Model:MATSHITA DVD-R UJ-815 Revision: D0C4 Serial Number: Drive Type: CD-RW/DVD-R Hi are you sure that the drive is a super drive as my Lombard has a combo drive in it and the drive type also reads CDRW/DVD-R BUT mine

another wireless encryption question

hi, i read the thread started by ryan and i'm still having trouble encrypting my airport card. i have a similar SMC wireless router and both pc and ibook laptops. my airport software is version 2.1.1 and my question is: can i use a simple passphrase? what i mean is, on the pulldown menue of

Re: inside TI

On 3/7/03 9:46 PM, "Cap Schwartz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Vicki: > > Is that a Lombard with a built-in CD-RW? I have a Lombard, but didn't > know a drive like that existed. > > Regards, > Cap > > From out of the West, with a hearty "Hi-ho, Silver!" vicki opined: > > ...[snippage]... >> th

Re: Wallstreet RAM question.

> > they use PC66, PC100, or PC133... each 'faster' ram speed is backwards > compatible with the slower speed machines. FWIW, PC66 and PC100 aren't even > manufactured anymore afaik -- it's all PC133. > Hi this thread has me at the moment. If the ram is backwards compatible This means the st

Re: can't recognize cd-rw

fix but nothing yet) > > Does ASP show the device on the firewire port ? > > Best wishes > > Malcolm Cornelius - The Powerbook Fanatic > www.pbfanatic.co.uk > > Hi yes it shows up as a cd-w28E on the fire wire port. Victoria. -- G-Books is sponsored by <

Re: can't recognize cd-rw

wrong or does this machine just hate > external cd burners? > > Thanks for your input! > > Andrew > > Hi I am having the same problem with my ibook and a smartdisk firewire cd re writer so could I also have suggestions (I also thought I was just doing something wrong an

Re: Ibook

ting the power manager > on every Apple laptop ever made. > > Good luck! > Hi Thanks Luca I found the reset button (can't think why I did not think of that because I have a 1400cs and a 190cs that needs this doing from time to time ) Held it down for 30 secs it worked fine t

Ibook

dvice would be great. Also is there any software that will tell me the state of the battery like the stuff I had for my 550c before it got sold. TIA Victoria. -- G-Books is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives