Can I ask an obvious question here? Can't you avoid the whole issue by using a USB Ethernet adapter and a cable to the back of the router? Is the wifi just for portability within the physical space?
(If this was already answered I missed it and apologize.) -- Mike "Right then! This won't be big on dignity!" - The Doctor > On Oct 2, 2015, at 19:21, Zachary Kline <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi All, > > I was wondering if anybody could give me some tips on networking with my > MacBook air. I used to run a virtual VMS system a few years back, but that > was on Windows and/or Linux, with access to “real,” ethernet devices. > I’ve since switched to the wifi-only Macbook Air, and it isn’t cooperating > very well. My copy of TCPIP services fails to get a DHCP lease. > I know that bridging with wifi adaptors is problematic, but I built with the > OS X native LibPcap support, and I thought it might help. > > Here is my simh version info > > Simulator Framework Capabilities: > 64b data > 64b addresses > Ethernet Packet transport:PCAP:UDP > Idle/Throttling support is available > Virtual Hard Disk (VHD) support > Asynchronous I/O support > FrontPanel API Version 1 > Host Platform: > Compiler: GCC 4.2.1 Compatible Apple LLVM 7.0.0 (clang-700.0.72) > Simulator Compiled: Sep 30 2015 at 21:53:11 > Memory Access: Little Endian > Memory Pointer Size: 64 bits > Large File (>2GB) support > SDL Video support: No Video Support > RegEx support for EXPECT commands > OS clock tick size (time taken by msleep(1)): 2ms > OS: Darwin Zacharys-MacBook-Air.local 15.0.0 Darwin Kernel Version > 15.0.0: Tue Sep 22 20:33:10 PDT 2015; > root:xnu-3247.10.11.1.1~1/RELEASE_X86_64 x86_64 > > git commit id: c3a879da > > Show xq eth: > > ETH devices: > eth0 en0 (No description available) > eth1 awdl0 (No description available) > eth2 bridge0 (No description available) > eth3 en1 (No description available) > eth4 udp:sourceport:remotehost:remoteport (Integrated UDP bridge support) > > en0 is the wifi adaptor I’m interested in, and bridge0 is an OS X-provided > THunderbolt Bridge, which doesn’t seem particularly useful for my purposes. > > Any advice would be appreciated. :) > Thanks much, > Zack. > _______________________________________________ > Simh mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh _______________________________________________ Simh mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh
