My son is getting older, wants to connect his DS to our WiFi so he can trade Pokeman with friends in Massachusetts.
So I ask him for the DS so I can add the MAC address to the filter. After going through every screen I could find I couldn't find anything related to wireless. So I hit Google. The ONLY way to see the MAC address of a DS is to insert a game that uses WiFi. You then have to launch the game, get to the options screen and access WiFi settings. So to just see the Mac address I had to sit through the opening screens of "Pokeman Pearl". Anyway I get the MAC address, add it to the router and then try to figure out how to connect. I couldn't. So I hit Google. Turns out the DS can only connect to unsecured or WEP secured (which is essentially the same as unsecured) networks. That's it. Nothing else. The ONLY advice from Nintendo is to remove security from the network. So I hit Google. You can't upgrade the firmware. You can't use the Wii as an access point. I found no help, but what I did find were a bunch of apologists bugging anybody who asked about this "why are so concerned about security on the DS?" or "WEP is secured!" or whatever... Nintendo cultists are as bad as Apple cultists sometimes. Suffice to say the boy's not going to connect his DS to the network anytime soon. I'm still convinced that nobody at Nintendo has actually ever BEEN online... Jim Davis ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;203748912;27390454;j Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:262449 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
