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memphis_anne Newbie Larva 
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posted January 16, 2002 06:11
   
I have a iMac DV SE, about 3 years old. 13 GB HD, 384 RAM, airport card installed and set up as airport software base station for my iBook. I was keeping the iMac strictly an OS9 machine ... until I bought an 80 GB Maxtor external firewire HD. I initialized the Maxtor, installed a fresh copy of 9.1, then updated to 9.2, copied the stuff I needed from the internal 13 GB drive. I used the Airport CD to reset up the new HD as the software base station, and it works just fine. Then I intitialized (wiped clean) the internal 13 GB HD and installed OSX on it. Updated to 10.1 .... ran the software update in System Preferences til I was up to speed with everything. Now when the iMac is booted in X, the airport does not work, and I can NOT find anywhere instructions to set up a software base station under OSX. I can reboot to 9 on the Maxtor drive and it works again, but I'd kinda like to have both the iMac and iBook booted in X at times, and have the darned thing work. Any help y'all can give me would be GREATLY appreciated! Thanks. IP: Logged |
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+Andrew Super Geek  
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posted January 16, 2002 10:07
Apple Knowledgebase Article 106507 Which basically says OS X doesn't do that, and that you can create a "computer to computer network" instead. IP: Logged |
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Ti Super Geek
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posted January 16, 2002 15:57
I'm afraid Andrew and the TIL are correct on this issue, you'll have to keep running 9 on the older one if you want it to be used as a base station, I ran into the same problem :-( Kevin IP: Logged |
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Lex Super Geek
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posted January 17, 2002 15:38
Despite OSX's lack of a real software base station app, it can be done with some unix hacking or a handy dandy shareware app (which does the unix hacking for you). The basic gist is that the built-in firewall in OSX can redirect packets elsewhere, so it can redirect traffic from your airport card to your ethernet card. So turn on the computer to computer wireless network and download something to do it for you. You might want to look around, but last I checked the program BrickHouse should be able to do it for you. It is primarily a firewall configurator, but also has somewhat easy to use options for doing the redirection. After that you shouldn't need to run BrickHouse unless something isn't working right. IP: Logged |
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Me unregistered |
posted January 18, 2002 21:51
You might also want to check out http://www.sustworks.com. IPNetShareX should work for you. I've had good luck with their products. IP: Logged |
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Dahak Mini-Geek
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posted January 21, 2002 20:30
I just saw a freeware program that sets up a software basestation on Mac OS X. It's available here: http://www.versiontracker.com/moreinfo.fcgi?id=13335&db=macosx ------------------ IP: Logged |
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