Hey Jim, Oliver and other green Wireless friends,
The recent postings regarding “computer to computer” (peer to peer) or non
base station 802.11b / wireless Ethernet have been most interesting. I’ve
had some limited success and thought that sharing my experience may add a
little to the informative work already done and might assist others.
But be warned, once you’ve had wireless use of your Newt it is darn hard to
go without. A reliable base station compatible software driver would be
whoa! Fantastic.
Overall the power consumption seemed comparable to my Farallon Enet card.
Strangely the data throughput seemed to be higher with the WaveLan card.
My configuration is MP2100 with 32MB Pretec card and a Macintosh iBook
(graphite) with an internal AirPort card. The Mac is running MacOS 9.2.2.
AirPort card in the Newt is the WaveLan Siver Turbo 11 Mbit (P/N 012845/A).
Newt has no problem recognising the card but only when the driver is in the
internal memory.
I had no success using AirPort software ver2.0. The computer to computer
option always seemed to default to channel 1 and as has been noted the
Newton driver software assumes the channel #3. Only a guess.
Did a clean install of MacOS 9.2.2. This created a completely new System
folder and left the one used for my work untouched. I selected this new
System folder as the startup one and proceeded to install AirPort software
ver1.2. Incidentally I had to “re-install” the NCU as preferences and
extensions are not carried over in a clean system installation.
Proceeding as Jim had kindly noted worked fine.
After establishing a wireless connection I didn’t try risking a backup and
maybe stuff up my current backup file, so tried a few other options. In
summary some of the options proved to be unreliable with my setup. The Newt
seemed to hang on some operations, especially when Mac was sending file
lists like directory listings when installing software onto Newt when
commanding from Newt. It also hung on larger file transfers. Jim noted this
in an earlier post I think.
My guess (although not a gambler I seem to be doing lots of guessing :-) was
it may be a buffering problem. Newt was set to direct all new data to the
32MB Pretec card and it is quite a bit slower than internal RAM so I retried
the largish Xfer with internal memory set as default. That seemed to solve
the problem.
It was weird using Mac as a keyboard via NCU and being wireless.
May we one day soon get an ABS driver for Newt … please of oh Big Green One.
HF
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