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OK. I have a Mac- now what?
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| 9-05-07
| perfect stranger
Posted on 09/05/2007 7:44:41 PM PDT by perfect stranger
Installing a wireless USB connection went by without a hitch with my Compaq using XP Pro, but not with this machine.
What am I missing?
TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Computers/Internet; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: antique; mac; rtfm
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To: perfect stranger
Ahhhh. 9.2. You should get the updates at least from the Apple website and install them.
You can run OSX on it. I have an older machine than that one, I think, at work that runs OS X (Tiger) and it is a 600 mhz model with 192MB RAM running four or five simple web served databases...:)
Does just fine, but no heavy lifting for it.
PS Disregard my last post...doesn’t apply to you!
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posted on
09/05/2007 8:06:36 PM PDT
by
rlmorel
(Liberals: If the Truth would help them, they would use it.)
To: perfect stranger
Sorry, I’ll move on. Good luck.
To: perfect stranger
Do you mean a wireless access point from a USB connection?
If so, that’s not how Macs work. You need an airport card or hardwire.
To: perfect stranger
What am I missing?..........A computer?.....
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posted on
09/05/2007 8:09:43 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(ALL that CARBON in ALL that oil & coal was once in the atmospere. We're just putting it back!)
To: perfect stranger
You have to set up your wireless network on Mac and type the $ sign before your network encryption key. After that you should be online. It works for me!
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posted on
09/05/2007 8:11:23 PM PDT
by
goldstategop
(In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
To: papertyger
Airport cards are built into Mac Minis. You don't need to buy Apple's add-ons to get on the Internet; your ISP's modem will work fine.
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posted on
09/05/2007 8:13:27 PM PDT
by
goldstategop
(In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
To: Red Badger
Nope- got plenty of them. AAMAF 6 Windows Machines on and online right now, but Mac is new to me.
To: goldstategop
To: papertyger
To: perfect stranger
"...AAMAF 6 Windows Machines on and online right now..."
Does your wife know you are doing this?...:)
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posted on
09/05/2007 8:16:04 PM PDT
by
rlmorel
(Liberals: If the Truth would help them, they would use it.)
To: perfect stranger
Does it have Firewire ports on it?
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posted on
09/05/2007 8:17:07 PM PDT
by
rlmorel
(Liberals: If the Truth would help them, they would use it.)
To: perfect stranger
Then why the Mac?..........just felt the urge to to try something strange?.......
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posted on
09/05/2007 8:17:16 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(ALL that CARBON in ALL that oil & coal was once in the atmospere. We're just putting it back!)
To: rlmorel
One of these?
No.
To: perfect stranger
Yeah, you can hardwire through ethernet or use the built in modem, but the only wireless you’ll get for it is an airport card or ethernet plug into an airport express which plugs into the wall anyway.
To: Red Badger
just felt the urge to to try something strange? that I have never tried before.
To: perfect stranger
Looks like your mac is doing about the same as what ours is doing at work, acting as an expensive doorstop because we couldn’t get it networked.
Hope you kept your PC handy.
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posted on
09/05/2007 8:25:18 PM PDT
by
Kevmo
(We should withdraw from Iraq — via Tehran. And Duncan Hunter is just the man to get that job done.)
To: perfect stranger
Don’t tell that to your wife. It won’t work, believe me.......
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posted on
09/05/2007 8:26:09 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(ALL that CARBON in ALL that oil & coal was once in the atmospere. We're just putting it back!)
To: perfect stranger
No...more like this:
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posted on
09/05/2007 8:27:16 PM PDT
by
rlmorel
(Liberals: If the Truth would help them, they would use it.)
To: Kevmo
LOL...couldn’t get it networked? Why not?
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posted on
09/05/2007 8:28:52 PM PDT
by
rlmorel
(Liberals: If the Truth would help them, they would use it.)
To: perfect stranger
Your problem is Apple Airports were in second gen before pcs were even starting to get out of the wireless gate. No one ever had a need to build a USB wireless access point for Mac.
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