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Europa
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on: March 24, 2022, 18:23
Hello! I come to you today with a question pertaining to networking. I have two Macs, a Power Mac G4 running Mac OS 9.2.2 and a PowerBook 1400 running Mac OS 7.6.1. The G4 is equipped with an AirPort card and the 1400 is equipped with an Orinoco WaveLan Silver PC card. I would like to share my G4's Ethernet connection over the AirPort using the Software Base Station capabilities of the AirPort control panel with WEP encryption, however I have gotten no luck thus far. One large wrinkle is that the WaveLan control panel expects hex pairs and the Software Base Station has you enter your password as a passphrase. Does anyone know how to get this working (if it's even possible for these two systems to connect to each other in this way)? I know WEP encryption isn't much these days, but it's better than nothing, especially considering I live in a pretty dense area network-wise and it'd be rather trivial for someone to just connect to an unsecured network. |
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Bolkonskij
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Reply #1 on: March 25, 2022, 08:58
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Ok, I have no personal experience doing this kind of sharing. If I get you right ... - you do want the G4 to act like a software router - you want it to share its internet connection with the 1400 via WLAN Have you tried looking for a software router app that will share your Internet access via DHCP? SurfDoubler comes to mind. Or IPNetRouter or Vicom's Internet Gateway. Go and check what's on the Garden, see if it says anything about WLAN support, download it onto the G4 and set it up. Like I said, no experience here. But that's how I would try to tackle it. Maybe someone else with more experience can chip in.
Last Edit: March 25, 2022, 09:00 by Bolkonskij
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Europa
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64 MB Posts: 109 she/her
Reply #2 on: March 25, 2022, 15:45
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That's correct, and I should definitely check on that. Thanks for the suggestion! I'll try that next time I'm able. I appreciate the help! 
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