Subject: Re: airport (again!)
From: Tommy Young (tommyyoung@mac.com)
Date: Sun Sep 10 2000 - 12:36:24 MDT
I don't know if airport is working on g4s and Imacs yet but why do you want
to run airport, just run an ethernet cable for petes sake
> From: Pat Plummer <ppat@micron.net>
> Reply-To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
> Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2000 11:23:52 -0600
> To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
> Subject: airport (again!)
>
> Folks:
>
> Fueled by the excellent info I've gleaned from you all and reading I've done
> elswhere, I have what is a pretty stable and secure private home network.
>
> What I'd like to do now is get my son's Blueberry iMac 350 on the network
> (running MacOS 9.0.4), so that he can have the seamless access to the Internet
> at large that I have going on my BSD box via ipchains. I'd also like to do
> this
> via airport if possible (my linux iMac and his Blueberry both have airport
> cards obviously).
>
> I'm running Benh's 2.2.17pre13-ben1 kernel and have his airport module
> installed. The instructions at his site discusses the use of a base
> station based network (which I don't have and don't plan to get since I am
> using the Linux iMac as the router). I tried setting up the Blueberry as a
> software base station to see if I could hack a solution, but could not get
> things to work. I've been pouring over the sites referenced on Ben's page and
> my possibility of sucess appears dismal.
>
> Since there is no hardware base station involved, can I set this thing up as a
> computer to computer connection somehow rather than a base station connection
> or is that not possible?
>
> Ben, are you out there : ) ?
>
> Pat
>
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