On 7/2/02 3:00 PM, "Onno Benschop" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> At 14:37 7/02/02 +0800, Lara Hopkins wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I hear that iinet is switching its Home ADSL accounts to PPPoE in >> several weeks. Has anyone here used this combination or similar - >> ADSL/PPPoE/Alcatel STH ethernet modem/Airport Base Station/OS X? >> >> I read about a whole lot of problems with Airport and PPPoE on the >> newsgroups, but most of them predate the current new-and-improved >> Airport software. > > I'm confused as to what you're asking here. I think Lara is talking about the pre-1.2 Airport Base Stations that didn't have the software to run PPPoE. The reality is that these older base stations just need to have the software in them upgraded, and they will be able to run PPPoE. This is accomplished by downloading the latest Airport software from Apple and installing it on you computer. You then need to find an app called Airport Admin Utility. Use this software to connect to your older base station and it will automagically install the new software. You now have a PPPoE capable AirPort Base Station. A little tidbit. Airport Base Stations are really just an AMD 486 cpu connected to a Lucent WaveLan card with some flash ram on the side. :-) Regards Matthew Healey -- Matthew Healey Information Systems Western Orthopaedic Clinic [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: +61 (08) 9423 8800 Fax: +61 (08) 9381 8300 Suite 213 25 McCourt Street Subiaco 6006 Western Australia
