Portability and convenience. The router is in an odd place, and not really easy to plug much of anything into. It’s a legitimate solution though, I’m just not thrilled with the idea. :) > On Oct 3, 2015, at 6:17 PM, Mike Hebel <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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
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