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Mac Forum / Applications / Mac Applications / October 2006MiniMac and physical networking to PC wireless network
I have a mini-mac which is connected via an ethernet cable to a PC which in turn has a wireless card. The PC connects to the internet via the wireless card and a cable TV broadband connection and router. I can readily connect the mini mac to the net by plugging the physical cable into the the back of the router. When I try the setup above the Mac recognises a connection but doesn't work. I have even tried buying a USB wireless adapter but that presents the same issue. Can anyone help ? Peter. There are a couple of problems here: (1) The PC must be set up to share it's internet connection. I.e. pick up the wireless connection and share that (i.e. act as a router to it's wired port). I don't know how you do this under Windows or if you need some extra software to accomplish this. (2) If the PC is setup correctly then you need a different ethernet cable, called a crossover cable to connect the PC and the Mac. This is because the wired port on the PC and the MAC are wired the same and you would be connecting TX to TX and RX to RX and that doesn't work. The router ports even though they look the same are wired differently to have TX connected to RX. I don't understand why the USB wireless adapter didn't work on the Mac as that should have allowed both machines to connect to the wireless access point. I hope you were able to return it. --jim > I have a mini-mac which is connected via an ethernet cable to a PC which in > turn has a wireless card. The PC connects to the internet via the wireless [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > > Peter. > I have a mini-mac which is connected via an ethernet cable to a PC which in > turn has a wireless card. The PC connects to the internet via the wireless > card and a cable TV broadband connection and router. Doesn't your mini have an AirPort Express card installed? If it does, why not have it connect to the broadband gateway? Assuming it does not... Assuming Windows XP is running on the PC... Did you enable Internet Connection Sharing (ICS)? You need to enable that in the Network Setup Wizard.  SignatureRat <ratinox@newsguy.com> \ That and five bucks will get you a Minion of Nathan - Nathan says Hi! \ small coffee at Starbucks > I have a mini-mac which is connected via an ethernet cable to a PC which in > turn has a wireless card. The PC connects to the internet via the wireless [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > recognises a connection but doesn't work. I have even tried buying a USB > wireless adapter but that presents the same issue. Do you have Internet sharing turned on on the PC? You must configure the PC to allow this; it will not work if you don't specifically configure the PC to do so. SignatureArt, photography, shareware, polyamory, literature, kink: all at http://www.xeromag.com/franklin.html Nanohazard, Geek shirts, and more: http://www.villaintees.com |
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