Re: [NTLK] Airport on Newton

From: John Ruschmeyer (jruschme_at_mac.com)
Date: Thu Jan 24 2002 - 13:54:12 EST


Jim Richter wrote:

> I've fudged around quite a bit with Airport 2.0 while booted in OS9.2,
> as well as OSX.1, and can't get the Lucent card to work.
>
> The card is immediately recognized with Airport 1.2. (It seems that in
> version 1.3, where Apple changed "Computer to Computer" networking to
> "Computer to Computer Networks" (wirelessly connecting more than 2 macs
> without a base station), pure simple AppleTalk connections went out the
> window. From 1.3 onwards, all file sharing is through TCP/IP)

More likely, 1.3 was when Apple upgraded the frimware to support IBSS
instead of the older Lucent-proprietary "Ad-Hoc Demo Mode".

Based on previous posts, it's clear that the Newton driver is doing AHDM.

<<<john>>>

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