AIRPORT QUESTION

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in Genius Bar edited January 2014
My wife just got aniBook, with an airport card and base station.

I use a G4 connected to the internet through an through an ethernet line to a DSL modem.



I hooked up the airport and connetcted it to my competer through the ethernet cable into the LAN port then to the DSL modem through the WAN port. I configured the airport so that it works with the iBook.... I am using it now

BUT

I cannot get anything other than the Airport Utility to recognize the Base Station from my G4:

the utility will not recognize it after I put in my password.... I have set sharing on both computers so that, theoretically, I should be able to share the BStation .. . . . the setup assistant on the G4 will not recognize the BS at all.



What else can I do?

do I need to reconfigure the base station settings in the iBook?

any ideas?

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  • Reply 1 of 2
    pfflampfflam Posts: 5,053member
    OK so I got it to work by calling Applehelp right before they closed . .



    now I have another problem . .

    I want to be able to access the other computer using one of them. I GO to Server but it just searches and searches . .



    I have appleshare turned on and I have all of the sharing turned on what's up?



    the tech I spoke to said that using the ethernet means that the G4 is dependant on the iBook's innitialization of the Base station . . . whatever that means . . .

    I sort of understand. Anyway, it means that I can't use Internet Connect to connect and disconnect because the "ethernet port" has been taken up by the modem . . .



    anyway, if anybody understands what this all means and whether it has anything to do with not being able to access one computer to another, then please say something . .



    Hell, I even appreciate saying you don't know . . .
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  • Reply 2 of 2
    der kopfder kopf Posts: 2,275member
    what systems are you running?



    X on both?



    did you turn on AppleTalk in the appropriate places?



    (meaning for Airport on the iBook and for ethernet on the G4).



    anyways, I don't really get what the problem is... if it is of any consolation.
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