Will any of this work on a Win98 pc with a 802.11b router? Or is the Mac required?
On Wed, 13 February 2002, Robert Benschop wrote:
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> on 21-01-2002 8:46, Jim Richter at paparichter_at_yahoo.com wrote:
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> > Actually it's just must simpler than I thought it was.
> >
> > 1) Install the Lucent WaveLan driver
>
> Done, apart from the errors that it gives me it seems to work fine.
>
> Interesting fact is that in the AppleTalk prefs on the Newt I don't just get
> the Lucent WaveLaan/IEEE but also the MELCO WLI-L11 and the IBM PC24E-H-FC
> listed, maybe somebody that happens to have one pf these could try it out
> too ?
>
> > 2) Put your PCMCIA card in your Newton.
> > 3) A dialog box pops up on the Newton identifying the WaveLan Pc Card.
> > Check the AppleTalk box in the left hand corner.
> > 4) Go to Internet Setup and create a new Generic set up. Name it
> > Wireless or something like that.
> > 5) In the setup, choose a manual configuration (vs. DHCP)
>
> You never mention it Jim but I presume that it's 'Connect using Ethernet' as
> the first step.
>
> > 6) Hit continue, for the page with all the TCP/IP stuff, just leave it
> > blank. You're going to be connecting via AppleTalk.
> > 7) Open up NCU. Under preferences, choose AppleTalk connection.
> > 8) Make sure Appletalk is turned on on your Mac. Under the AppleTalk
> > control panel, make sure AppleTalk is set to Airport. Open up TCP/IP
> > control panel and make sure it's set to Airport. Make sure File Sharing
> > is turned on.
>
> Now here I run into a weird problem, since I don't have an IP address I
> don't know what top fill in here, and TCP/IP is adamant, no way it will let
> me close the control panel without it, so should I choose the BootP, the
> DHCP or the RARP server ? Doesn't make sense to me.
>
> Hoping to make a full connection one of these days, so far been very
> impressed to have been typing wireless, looking for more though.
> (of course)
>
>
> Robert Benschop
>
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