From: David Neale (david.neale_at_pandora.be)
Date: Thu Apr 29 2004 - 10:52:45 PDT
If I'm not mistaken, I tried both WEP on and off (not knowing what the
check-box was actually for!).
Sounds to me as if the set up is a bit of a hit-and-miss affair -- keep
trying until something works! Is that about the size of it?
David
> Are you trying to work with WEP encryption? 64bit doesn't work for me
> (and I heard that 128 does) but I just go without encryption which
> does
> work for me. I was also able to use DHCP. In order to get the sync to
> work for me, I had to "conect to the Internet" (that is, establish a
> connection with an Internet aware app (that could just be the version
> of
> the Dock transport I'm using)), then connect with the Dock. Make sure
> you have a steady light on the card, as that indicates that it's on
> the
> network (in the Internet preference, make sure to add a disconnect
> time
> (I set mine to never, so that I can disconnect when I'm ready.)
>
>
> Cedric
David Neale wrote:
>…
>
>When Dock is set to "Connect via TCP/IP, "Connecting to the
>internet..." is displayed for a short time, and then Dock TCP/IP shows
>
>"NIE Error:
>Problem connecting. DHCP server unavailable or unable to configure
this
>device."
>
>(using "Connect via TCP/IP.)
>
>When Dock is set to "Connect via AppleTalk" (AppleTalk checked in
Sytem
>Preferences of MacOS) and either "Connect to Airport" or "Connect to
>other computer" is selected in Dock, the message "Select a Mac OS
>computer" nd "Looking for Mac OS computers…" appears, but none is
found
>(waited for five minutes!).
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