Hope this isn't too far OT, but it's definitely appropriate for PB's as
well as the iBook on question. I have a G4 tower running OS X.2.6 that's
hooked to my cable modem. It has an Airport card, which uses Internet
sharing to act as a software base station to give my Wallstreet (OK, now
it's G-book appropriate ;-) and iBook access to the net and each other. I
brought home a Win98SE PC from work, which has a basic (ethernet) network
card in it, and I'm trying to use the iBook as an "Airport receiver",
attaching the PC to the iBook by ethernet to share the iBook's wireless net
connection. I'm hitting a wall (likely PC related...), so here are a few
questions:
1. Do I use a standard ethernet patch cable to connect the PC to the iBook
(which I used for all these experiments), or do I need a crossover cable (or
doesn't it matter)?
2. I've tried setting the ethernet networking of both computers to DHCP,
then tried manual/static IP but neither worked. Do I need to set DNS or
gateway settings on the PC if I do this? See below for Apple tech document
on this - I tried all this... only problem is that I don't know how to set
the PC...
You need OS X 10.2 on the iBook to get this to work, and don't want to vary it's Ethernet settings from the default. You'll need a crossover cable unless your PC's NIC supports Auto-MDIX (most don't unless you paid more than $50 for the NIC - then it's a coin flip).
Not only does the iBook need a working airport connection and a working ethernet connection, but you need some way to tell the iBook to forward data between the two. that's where the Internet Sharing feature in Jaguar comes in.
Given the complexity of what you're trying, i would strongly urge acquiring a LinkSys usb wifi dongle for the PC. You can find them at most places that carry LinkSys products (Fry's, Microcenter, CompUSA, some smaller outfits) for $40-50 or so.
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