I ususally need to put a manual setting for the IP, subnet, and router to connect to my Verizon FIOS.
On Mar 27, 12:50 pm, Dana Collins <[email protected]> wrote: > Greetings all, > This issue involves OS 9, so please chime in if you still have a > penchant for the "good ol' days". > I have a Dig. Audio G4/733MHz w/ 1 Gig of RAM, deliberately back- > pedaled to OS 9.2.2 for legacy app reasons (the only OS on the unit, > no OS X at all). > Its intended network interface is via wireless using Verizon's > provided wireless router (Actiontec MI424 Rev C, if that needs be > known) for our home network; the DA is attempting to connect using a > known-to-work original Airport card. > Wireless connectivity via this Airport card has been negotiated > successfully with my G3 iBook running OS 10.4.11, so, all things being > equal, this should be a "go". > On first boot of the DA's newly installed OS, Airport immediately > recognized the ESSID of the router, and let me easily plug in the WEP > password, set up a keychain, and launched connection with no problem - > signal is clear as a bell. The Airport app shows that the unit is > online for the network, and TCP/IP (set to Airport connection) > generates an apparently good IP address (using DHCP-its a 169. series > if that helps). Again, all appears well. > Moment of truth, launching a browser (IE, Opera, Netscape, iCab), > always results in a failure to communicate with the "remote server" - > this is where I am at, despite trashing old preferences, zapping PRAM, > et. al. > > Any thoughts? Should I do a manual IP configuration? > Thanks for any input, sorry for the long-ish read. > Best regards, > Dana --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
