On May 10, 2011, at 10:02 AM, Jeffrey Engle wrote: > Yesterday, I went to my mothers house with my trusty iPad in hand ready to > "wow" her with this new technology. When I got there, I needed to connect to > a network and as her newer 2009 mac mini has 802.11 a,b,g,n capabilities, I > quickly navigated to system preferences and turned on "internet sharing" . I > then found that same network on the ipad and for all intent purposes, hooked > to her now sweet network, (or at least this is what I thought) the ipad found > the network?, gave me the appropriate "bars" in the upper left hand corner of > my ipad screen.... BUT, no connection? no connection at all? No matter what I > did, I couldn't get online with the ipad. > > Now, at home I use an Airport extreme a,b,g,n base station to get online with > this same ipad all the time. SO... I recreated the same scenario with my iMac > at home as I did with her Mac Mini.... and you guessed it, same thing, I > couldn't get online. The ipad "saw" the network, had the "bars" in the upper > left corner, but no connection?
Is your mothers mini and your iMac using their wired connection for internet connectivity? Internet sharing works by utilizing an unused network interface to offer for connections. OS X will happily let you share your internet connection port, and without some other way of connecting to the internet nothing happens. If your iPad is getting an IP address (and doesn't say 'self-assigned') then this is the problem. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, 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] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
