I've got a MacPro 2.66 Powermac coming. It has no wireless. I currently use a laptop with an external HD to store music on. It connects wirelessly and I use the SB3 to control the music.
I had used the SB3 to give Internet access to a Dell running Ubuntu as it did not have a wireless card. It worked fine. It is now out of the picture. So I know the SB3 can host wireless access for a computer through its Ethernet port. So tonight for an experiment I hooked the Mac laptop up to the SB3 to see how it might work. Once I cut the wireless connection on the laptop, the Network system preferences gave me a green light, but said it could not obtain an IP address, and off course the music library running through the laptop would not play. Forgive me on this, but it seems like I can't have it both ways. The laptop can't act as a music server when it is relying on the SB3 for a network connection? I assume when I put the Mac Pro 2.66, acting as the server, I will run into the same problem. Any suggestions? I'm going to try to have the Apple Store install a Extreme Wifi card in the Mac Pro but I've heard there have been a lot of issues on these retrofits as the 2.0 and 2.66 (now end of life) did not come standard with Bluetooth or Airport Wifi. -- Jazz1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Jazz1's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=6623 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=44846 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
