[iBook] finally went wireless - woo-hoo!

[Michelle]

Hi everyone,

OK I am wireless now (as I type this) for the FIRST TIME IN MY LIFE!

This was not without a huge screw-up though and likely many mistakes 
and certainly a lot of profanity. :-P

After asking for guidance here some time ago, I bought a "new to me" 
Airport Base Station. I have to use a dial-up (slow) connection since 
we live on a farm in the middle of nowhere, so this was the one I had 
to get... the "Graphite" one. I actually received it in the mail 
about 10 days ago but have been hesitant to mess up a "good thing" 
(namely, lose my internet connection entirely) and sure enough, 
getting the d*mn thing configured and working was pretty much a 
disaster.

It just seemed like following the "instructions" (that came with it) 
was not at all useful, nor intuitive. I wound up farting around 
(pardon the expression) with various other "set up" configurations 
and etc on the iBook and by some miracle - I'm not even sure how - I 
finally got A) the iBook to recognize and "talk" to the Station, and 
B) the Station to dial into and "talk" to our ISP.

Hallelujah.

Now I can sit outside in the 100 degree weather this weekend and surf 
the web. HA. Or, more likely, I can sit in the comfortable A/C on a 
leather couch and surf the web, while watching a DVD and with several 
dogs snoozing around me... many feet away from the old "tether" of a 
phone cord that made me stay near the phone plug-in!

Cheers!!!

Take care,
Michelle & Wireless Herd
happydog at ccp.com
http://www.happydogsrescue.com