Perhaps I'm missing something, but surely you can just ethernet it up to see if you need to download any updates?
On 19/03/2011, Brent Harding <bhard...@doorpi.net> wrote: > Hi there. After taking my 13-inch Macbook to a little shop a friend of dad > knew of, they finally got Boot Camp and XP going on this somewhat older > white Macbook. One of the major problems, well, the only thing I've noticed > so far is that no matter how I reconfigure my router, the wifi either times > out connecting or says that I might be out of range. If I'm across the room > from the thing, it better not be out of range because if I hit connect on > other ones I have no clue who owns them, those will ask me for the password. > The strange thing is that my own wifi works fine booting up from Snow > Leopard, but not XP. I tried lowering security all the way down to WEP as > believe it or not, all the other routers according to the network table in > the airport thingy say WEP in them, how aweful from a security > standpoint but I don't know who owns any of them to get into temporarily to > download some updates and see if that solves this. At the place I live at, > doubt anyone would know their SSID because they're all non-descript, some > 2-wire and numbers, one real long and random one and a cellular-connected > one through a local provider, so wouldn't know who to ask permission from if > they knew the default keys. With mine, there's 5 in total I can see from > here, but the one that refuses to ask for a key has to be mine. I have > Charter for Internet, and my modem is a SMCD3GN Docsis 3 Wireless gateway, > all the latest and greatest from what I can tell, even with gigabit > hardwired ports. How do I force this thing to take on the XP install on my > Macbook? I really have to wonder if these modems do Mac address registration > and OS analysis. It lets MacOSX on without a hitch, but when I reboot to XP > it says I'm out of range almost immediately or it sits there as long as you > can wait like a firewall would respond if it's decided the answer is no. Is > there a way I can reset what my gateway thinks about the Mac address for the > laptop so that it will allow the XP side on? I wonder then if it will forbid > OSX? I don't even know if that shop downloaded that 300 mb update there is > to the Boot Camp drivers, at least there was when I installed those into a > demo of fusion. Is there a way to download them with a PC and install via > USB stick since I can't find an open network? If not, what kind of 2Wire > Docsis 3 modem can I buy myself to replace this thing, figuring if I have my > own, this silly detection won't be there? I suppose if I convinced Charter > to send another one, I have to be careful to connect wirelessly with the > windows side first and see if it then locks Mac out, but I'd rather not go > through that mess. > Thanks. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
