Dear Tony, I was agonizing with you, although I could barely understand what you all were talking about, but at least tried to follow the general steps. I doubt, though ,that i would ever try a thing like that. I would need to have Jerry or Ward come out here to do it for me ( although then I would not learn as much) David Pogue's Missing Manual has been my Bible as well. What David explains, I can understand. And to think, years ago he used to give free advice to anybody that asked sending him an e-mail. He even explained to me the simple feature of how to change the alphabetical order, after I had accidentalle clicked on that litttle triangle and found my lists turned around and starting with Z. --Yes, these were the times! Good luck, I hope everything will work out OK
On Sunday, Nov 9, 2003, at 15:45 America/New_York, Anthony Wilson wrote: > I said I was going to set this aside for a few days, but I was reading > my > well worn copy of OS X: The Missing Manual, and it says when you set > up an > ABS for the first time, don't mess with Airport Admin., just use > Airport > Setup Asst. So I thought I'd try that. > > Here's what I did: > 1) started with modem turned off, ABS unplugged, iBook off > 2) connected ethernet cable to ABS, turned modem on and waited for all > the > lights to come on. > 3) stuck paper clip (Corner Office brand, jumbo size, standard smooth > finish) in reset hole, plugged in ABS, waited a good 60 seconds, > removed > paper clip > 4) booted iBook > 5) went into Airport Asst... but it didn't see the ABS... so I > unplugged and > replugged the ABS, and voila! it appeared in Airport Asst. > 6) I went through all the setup screens, told it to use DHCP, etc. > 7) Started up Safari and I was surfin' > > I wish I knew what I did differently on this attempt: was it procedure > for > hooking up the cable and turning things on, was it using Airport Asst. > rather than Airport Admin.... or was it just the work of digital > gremlins. > > Next step, I want to install a hub so I can share the DSL connection > between > the PC and the iBook. You guys please correct me if I'm wrong, but I > thought > I would use a hub rather than a router since I have two assigned IP > addresses. The PC and iBook would use DHCP to get their addresses from > the > DHCP server. If there's a better way to do it, please let me know. > > > This forum has been a big help, now I'm going to have to start coming > to the > meetings and begin really learning this stuff, > Tony > > > > > > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will > | be November 25. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. > | This list's page is <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>. > > Marta | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be November 25. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | This list's page is <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>.
