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Mac Forum / General / Portable Macs / April 2007Bouncing: wifi & dial-up modems
Hi folks: Can anyone tell me how to set up the control panels on my 1400 PB so I can switch between a wifi card and a dialup modem without having to reconfigure my control panels every time? I'm running OS 8.5 on the Powerbook. Yes, I'm that dumb. Bear with me. I've always used a desktop at home, so never had to learn how to do this stuff. I have to travel all the time now. Someone just gave me the old PB. I'm in the steep part of the learning curve. Also, how hard is it to put a new HD into a PB? Someone is selling 10G and 30G HD's on ebay pretty cheap. I'm sorely tempted... TIA, Jan  SignatureBedouin proverb: If you have no troubles, buy a goat. > Can anyone tell me how to set up the control panels > on my 1400 PB so I can switch between a wifi card and > a dialup modem without having to reconfigure my control > panels every time? I'm running OS 8.5 on the Powerbook. If you have 64 meg of RAM, install OS9.1. It will make your life simpler. > Also, how hard is it to put a new HD into a PB? Someone is > selling 10G and 30G HD's on ebay pretty cheap. I'm sorely > tempted... It takes about 5-10 minutes. I'm not sure of the details, but you remove the keyboard and there is a little tray on the left hand side. You remove two screws and very carefully lift it out. There is a very fragile ribbon cable connect to the left had side of the drive. I pry it off with a small screwdriver, but if you are not careful, you can tear it that way. The problems with replacing the drive are: 1. Depending upon which version of MacOS you are using, it may not recognize a non Apple drive. 2. If the drive is bigger than 8000 megabytes (8 gig by Apple terms), it will not boot unless you make the first partition less than 8000 megabytes and boot from it. 3. If the drive is too fast, it may corrupt data while it is being read. MacOS 8.6 seems to not have this problem, I don't know if 9.1 will on a 1400. My 1400s have Apple drives in them. Geoff. SignatureGeoffrey S. Mendelson, Jerusalem, Israel gsm@mendelson.com N3OWJ/4X1GM IL Voice: (07)-7424-1667 Fax ONLY: 972-2-648-1443 U.S. Voice: 1-215-821-1838 Visit my 'blog at http://geoffstechno.livejournal.com/ > Hi folks: > [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > > Jan What I would do is setup two locations in "Location Manager" One for each network setup, and then it is a simple thing to switch between the two different "Locations"...... Bruce in alaska Signatureadd a <2> before @ > > Hi folks: > > [quoted text clipped - 22 lines] > > Bruce in alaska I always wondered what Location Manager was for -- never looked at it. Thanks, Bruce : ) Jan SignatureBedouin proverb: If you have no troubles, buy a goat. |
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