[G4] Wanting to go wireless!

[Joe Ellis]

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From: "Nat" <nbaker at discover-net.net>
To: "Power Macintosh G4 List" <G4 at lists.themacintoshguy.com>
Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2003 12:13 PM
Subject: Re: [G4] Wanting to go wireless!


> On 11/12/03 10:27, "Joe Ellis" <jellis at gdeb.com> wrote:
>
> > The Airport card for your G4 is fairly inexpensive, the cage and antenna
> > should already be there. If I were you, I would install that first. You
> > don't say what OS you are using, if it's OS X you can configure your G4
as a
> > base station for your other machines and you don't need the ABS at least
to
> > start. I ran my G4 as a base station for a while when my ABS went down
and I
> > was waiting for a replacement. I think you can also do that in OS 9 but
it's
> > been so long since I used 9; I don't remember for sure.
>
> Thank you Joe.  I am running OS X 10.2.6 and I've heard that I can use it
> for a base station for the other Macs but will I be able to use it for my
PC
> with a card and my Tungsten C also?
>
No reason why you can't with the PC, don't know what a Tungsten C is. As far
as the PC is concerned it may depend on what version of Windows you are
using. From what I've seen and heard M$'s "home" versions of Windows ME and
XP home have their networking functions severely crippled, The full version
of Win 98, 2000, and XP should work just fine. Since you are using 10.2.6
you can use Samba to share folders on on them with your Macs.

Joe Ellis