Wireless Networking with a B&W G3
I have a QuickSilver 933, a 1.2 GHz Athlon system I built myself that's running FreeBSD 4.6, and my roommate is getting a B&W G3.
I have the 1st version of the Airport Base Station and an Airport Card in my 933, and I have a 6 Port Hub.
My question is whats the best way to setup this network? I don't think the B&W can have an airport card in it (correct me if I'm wrong) and I know I will never correctly get a wireless card working in FreeBSD just because I am not that good yet.
Can anyone suggest some things?
I have the 1st version of the Airport Base Station and an Airport Card in my 933, and I have a 6 Port Hub.
My question is whats the best way to setup this network? I don't think the B&W can have an airport card in it (correct me if I'm wrong) and I know I will never correctly get a wireless card working in FreeBSD just because I am not that good yet.
Can anyone suggest some things?
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<strong>I have a QuickSilver 933, a 1.2 GHz Athlon system I built myself that's running FreeBSD 4.6, and my roommate is getting a B&W G3.
I have the 1st version of the Airport Base Station and an Airport Card in my 933, and I have a 6 Port Hub.
My question is whats the best way to setup this network? I don't think the B&W can have an airport card in it (correct me if I'm wrong) and I know I will never correctly get a wireless card working in FreeBSD just because I am not that good yet.
Can anyone suggest some things?</strong><hr></blockquote>
Wire the Athlon up to the base station's LAN port. Get a Farallon Skyline 802.11b PCI card for the B&W G3 (there are other manufacturers of wireless PCI cards as well if you can't find this one). You're now networked!
(my original didn't make sense)
The Airport Base Station I have doesn't have the hookups to plug my cable modem into it and another PC. It's only got one ethernet jack.
I have two NICs in my Athlon. Could I plug the modem into that and then out to my Airport? That would make sense anyway wouldn't it? Seeing as I want to use the BSD machine as a firewall / file server...
[ 07-24-2002: Message edited by: Jay Contonio ]</p>
<strong>Ahh but the tricks on you...
(my original didn't make sense)
The Airport Base Station I have doesn't have the hookups to plug my cable modem into it and another PC. It's only got one ethernet jack.
I have two NICs in my Athlon. Could I plug the modem into that and then out to my Airport? That would make sense anyway wouldn't it? Seeing as I want to use the BSD machine as a firewall / file server...
[ 07-24-2002: Message edited by: Jay Contonio ]</strong><hr></blockquote>
Ah, one of the original base stations! I should've read a little more closely. OK, you can use the Athlon like you said, and if you're running BSD you shouldn't have any problems (I'm assuming you know how to implement a BSD firewall).
[ 07-25-2002: Message edited by: pasta ]</p>
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Wire the Athlon up to the base station's LAN port. Get a Farallon Skyline 802.11b PCI card for the B&W G3 (there are other manufacturers of wireless PCI cards as well if you can't find this one). You're now networked!</strong><hr></blockquote>
This may work only with OS9. The last time I checked OS X didn't support wireless cards that used a pci adaptor. Which is the case with the BW mac since it doesn't have a builtin airport slot. Although, there is a wireless project on SourceForge that has some sort of OSX drivers.